Avoid Plagiarism : Learn to Quote, Paraphrase, and Summarize!

To "plagiarize" means

• to steal and pass off the ideas, opinions, theories, or words of another as one's own
• to use facts, statistics, graphs, drawings that are not common knowledge without crediting the source
• to commit literary theft
• to present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source.

Adapted from Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary