The material of
the Plagiarism Tutorial & Test was originally developed at
the School of Education at Indiana University Bloomington. Adapted
to AUB students
by the English Dept. faculty members at AUB.
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Overview
In order to avoid plagiarism, you must give credit when
You use another person's ideas, opinions, or theories.
You use facts, statistics, graphics, drawings, music, etc., or
any other type of information that does not comprise common
knowledge.
You use quotations from another person's spoken or written
word.
You paraphrase another person's spoken or written word.
Recommendations
Begin the writing process by stating your ideas; then go back
to the author's original work.
Use quotation marks and credit the source (author) when you
copy exact wording.
Use your own words (paraphrase) instead of copying directly
when possible.
Even when you paraphrase another author's writings, you must
give credit to that author.
If the form of citation and reference are not correct, the
attribution to the original author is likely to be incomplete.
Therefore, improper use of style can result in plagiarism. Get a
style manual and use it.
The figure below may help to guide your decisions.
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