Avoiding Plagiarism notes

• Direct Quotation
• all or part of a direct excerpt from text or script
• contained in quotes
• proper MLA citation , "...?" ().
• longer than four lines follow different step
• owl purdue
• Paraphrasing

• putting info from a broad excerpt 
• condenses it
• in your own words
• needs to be in mla still
• common plagiarism bc people forget to cite

• Summarizing
• only the main ideas
• very condensed
• much shorter than source
• credit ideas summarized back to source
• broad look 
• needs to be cited
• Plagiarism
• can get you into a LOT of trouble
• represent words or ideas taken from somewhere else as your own either on purpose or accidentally by not including proper citation
• Points
• use quotes sparingly and when needed 
• need a good reason
• summarizing or paraphrasing is more common in a research paper
• still cite using ().