Research Paper Part 3: FINAL PAPER

Every semester there are always a couple of students who run into problems with plagiarism. Sometimes it's pretty blatant - someone ran out of time and thought they'd just take half of a source and copy it into their paper to try and make up the word count. Other times, though, I think it legitimately stems from confusion that people have over what constitutes plagiarism. And I totally get that. It's not always clear, for example, how much you have to change someone's words to make them your own. I have a couple of resources for you.

First, a video I made:

https://youtu.be/u4_vGJH8LRI

Second, I would strongly recommend looking over the following website before you start writing your paper. It will not only help you in this class, but in all your future classes as well. When in doubt, put a citation in. If it's exact words, always use quotes. For other guidelines, check out this

http://lib.usm.edu/plagiarism_tutorial/whatis_plagiarism.html