Effective Writing Center (EWC)

Module Contents

• Introduction
• About this Module

The Basics

• Introduce Source Material
• Cite Source Material
• Reference Source Materials

Guidelines

Quotation:

• Guideline I
• Guideline II
• Guideline III
• Guideline IV

Paraphrasing/Summarizing:

• Guideline V
• Guideline VI
• Guideline VII
• Guideline VIII

• Summary

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How to Avoid Plagiarism: The Basics

Source material may be used to help explain your own ideas or to give convincing support for them. Source material can be used in three different ways: it may be quoted, paraphrased, or summarized.

Quoting: presenting source material verbatim (that is, in the exact words of the original) and placing quotation marks around it.

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Paraphrasing: restating ideas of the source material in your own words. No quotation marks are needed with paraphrase.

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Summarizing: transforming the source’s ideas into your own words and reducing the number of words substantially. Like paraphrases, summaries require no quotation marks.

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When you quote, paraphrase, or summarize source material, you must always introduce the material, cite the source, and list references. We’ll discuss how to do these three things on the next few screens.

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