2-8 Understand plagiarism and ethical use of information

Plagiarism is presenting the words or ideas of someone else as your own without proper acknowledgment of the source. Ideas and words are "intellectual property."

If you don't credit the author, you are committing a type of theft called plagiarism.

It is plagiarism if you:		Always:
copy passages from the Internet or a print resource, and use them in your paper without proper citations.		use quotation marks when directly stating another person's words, and cite the source in your Works Cited page.
use the ideas of another person as your own without giving credit.		cite phrases, ideas, and quotations to give proper credit to the author.
use the words or paraphrase another person's words without citing them.		respect the "intellectual property" of others, and give credit to your sources.

Create your Works Cited page when you begin your research.
Update it as you continue to gather information.
Credit all your information sources.

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