Using Outside Material and Avoiding Plagiarism

Learning objectives:

By the end of this chapter, you should be able to:

• Understand the value of incorporating someone else’s sources into your own writing.
• Be more confident about incorporating someone else’s sources into your own writing.
• Be able to distinguish the differences among the following three strategies summarizing, paraphrasing, and quoting.
• Decide when to use each strategy appropriately in different situations.
• Interpret and create basic citations in several common formats
• Determine the difference between plagiarism of ideas and plagiarism of words
• Use the strategies above to successfully use outside material while avoiding plagiarism