Paraphrasing and Plagiarism Giving Credit Where Credit is Due
What is Paraphrasing? Paraphrasing -- A restatement of a text or passage in another form or other words, often to clarify meaning. (
What is Plagiarism? Plagiarism -- writing someone else’s ideas in your report without giving them credit.
Examples of Plagiarism written text articles, books, newspapers, magazines, co-students' projects, messages, data, everything on the Internet, etc. visual text books, fine art, graphics, photographs, etc.
More Examples of Plagiarism multimedia products websites, video productions, films, CDs, etc. music compositions, lyrics, CDs, music or sound bites on the Internet, etc. spoken text speeches, audio recordings, interviews, etc. (
What Should You Do? Quotation Marks Give credit in your report Bibliography