Policy Corner - Tips to avoid plagiarism

To avoid plagiarism, you should organize your notes by.....

• Compiling a list of citations

• Labelling which thoughts are yours and those are not

• Highlight statements that need citations

• All of the above and more

When quoting a text, you must.....

• copy and paste it to your work

• Put it in quotation marks

• Introduce it in your own words

• Introduce it in your own words, have quotation marks, and cite the original authors

What does it mean by "paraphrase"?

To paraphrase properly, you should....

• rewrite the author's idea in your own words

• copy and paste the text, replace some words with synonyms

• not worry about the citation since it's your words

• rewrite the author's idea in your own words, followed by citation

Try paraphrasing the text in the picture: