Strategies for Avoiding Plagiarism: Tips for Maintaining Integrity in Your Written Assignments (cont.)
If you use another person’s ideas/thoughts/creations you must:
Paraphrase/summarize your understanding of these ideas in your own words without distorting the original meaning and cite the source in the text or in a footnote. No quotation marks are needed because these are not the exact words of another.
Summarizing is condensing the author’s words or ideas without altering the meaning or providing interpretation.
Paraphrasing is restating the author’s words or ideas without changing the meaning or providing interpretation.
- Use your own words
- Include key elements of the original and keep it brief (summarizing)
- Do not include your interpretation/analysis at this point. You must make it clear what are your thoughts and someone else’s
- You will want to introduce your summary/paraphrase in a variety of ways: "According to…" or "The author concludes that…"
- Always include attribution (a citation)
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