Avoiding Plagiarism: FAQs

This page contains the following sub-pages:

What is plagiarism?
Is documentation of sources required to avoid plagiarism?
How not to be a plagiarist?
What is a paraphrase?
How can you make sure that you are paraphrasing and not plagiarizing?
What is the penalty for plagiarism?
What is the difference between copyright infringement and plagiarism?
How common is plagiarism?
Should I paraphrase a source or quote it?

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