FYI - Plagiarism

Here are a couple of websites that talk about plagiarism. Plagiarism involves using someone else's words or ideas without giving that person credit, or leading others to believe it is your original work. Remember, plagiarism can be intentional (purposely copying someone else's work) or unintentional (not saying where you got the ideas from). Even if you change the person's words around in the sentence, but your sentences are almost the same, it's plagiarism. If you get an idea from doing some research, if it's something that is not common knowledge (everybody knows it) then you must say where you got the information.

We will try to talk more about these topics sometime this term.

http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/pamphlets/plagiarism.shtml
http://plagiarism.dal.ca/student/examples.html