Avoiding Plagiarism
What is Plagiarism?
Plagiarism is presenting another person's ideas, information, expressions, or entire work as one's own. It is thus a kind of fraud: deceiving others to gain something of value. While plagiarism only sometimes has legal repercussions (e.g., when it involves copyright infringement--violating an author's exclusive legal right to publication), it is always a serious moral and ethical offense. (from Kathleen Fitzpatrick's eight edition of The MLA Handbook (2016)
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