How to avoid plagiarism?

To avoid plagiarism, you would want to make sure all your statements from a source have citations, and references. Another way to avoid plagiarism, is to always give the author credit for his/her work, and to give credit for authors work, you would be giving acknowledgment that the work was not your own idea, by using quotation marks, or paraphrase the information. Whenever you paraphrase, or quote material from a source, make sure you give all the necessary information, so that you can put this information on your reference page. If the information is the authors word for word, place quotation marks around the phrase. Also if you use the author’s words, but you put them in your own words, this is called paraphrasing.