When you present an author's idea as your own, you're committing:

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When you present an author's idea as your own, you're committing:

Paraphrasing plagiarism happens when you take someone else’s idea and present it in your own words as if it were yours, without giving credit. The wording may be altered, but the underlying idea still belongs to someone else, and the absence of a citation makes it look like your own thinking. This differs from accidental plagiarism, where the lack of citation is unintentional; self-plagiarism, where you reuse your own previous work; and cut-and-paste plagiarism, where you copy exact text without quotation marks or a citation. To avoid this, always attribute the original source when you restate someone’s idea, and make sure your paraphrase truly reflects the source’s meaning rather than just swapping in synonyms. If you do quote directly, use quotation marks and cite the source.

Paraphrasing plagiarism happens when you take someone else’s idea and present it in your own words as if it were yours, without giving credit. The wording may be altered, but the underlying idea still belongs to someone else, and the absence of a citation makes it look like your own thinking. This differs from accidental plagiarism, where the lack of citation is unintentional; self-plagiarism, where you reuse your own previous work; and cut-and-paste plagiarism, where you copy exact text without quotation marks or a citation. To avoid this, always attribute the original source when you restate someone’s idea, and make sure your paraphrase truly reflects the source’s meaning rather than just swapping in synonyms. If you do quote directly, use quotation marks and cite the source.

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