Plagiarism

Plagiarism is the act of taking someone else's idea and representing them as your own. In college, it is drilled into you in all your classes not to plagiarise your work. i found this quite scary, but soon realised that its not that difficult.

A lot of people fret about plagiarizing in their assignments. As long as you correctly reference all of your researched material.

I found referencing quite difficult but as long as you check before you reference, you should have no problem!

You can find help with references on a very useful web site called citethisforme.com which you can find by following this link.

There are a few examples of when referencing should be used:

1. When quoting directly from someone else's work.

2. When you have gotten the idea based on someone else's work. If you have read it as research for your work, then these sources should go in a bibliography.

3. Referencing should also be used when paraphrasing. If you read a piece and write that information in you own words, it still has to be referenced.

Referencing does not have to be used if the topic you are writing on is considered common knowledge. Information is considered common knowledge if it can be found in numerous places or is known by many people.