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Strategies for Avoiding Plagiarism: Tips for Maintaining Integrity in Your Written Assignments (cont.)
If you use another person’s exact words you must always do both of the following:
- Provide a citation, either in the text or in a footnote and
- Enclose the words in quotation marks, or place them in a block of indented, single spaced text if the quote is over 40 words long.
You will want to use direct quotes sparingly as the instructor is interested in reading about what you’ve learned, what you think, and how you came to know it. You may use a quotation:
- When you want to support or add credibility to your arguments
- When the original statement is unique and hence difficult to rephrase
- When the original is so good that you want to preserve the original language.
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