Paraphrasing and Plagiarism (Week #6)

Plagiarism is more or less the borrowing of ideas or words from someone without giving them credit or properly annotating any direct quotations. This has been something that the author of this blog has strived to avoid since first learning about plagiarism sometime around middle school. However, the idea of paraphrasing is relatively new; it is something that has always been known but not well explained to the author, therefore avoided in order to prevent himself from committing the act of plagiarism. On the other hand, the informational articles about plagiarism and paraphrasing have shined some new light on the idea of paraphrasing; therefore the author may be compelled to try out this way of relaying someone’s ideas this semester in one of his papers.