If you use your own words to paraphrase an idea from the source material, you don’t need to give citations.
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- If the idea is from a published paper written by yourself, you don’t need to give citation.
- When you paraphrase an author, you don’t need to give him or her credit.
- When you paraphrase an author, you restate or summarize her or his ideas in your own words, and you do not have to give credit.
- If you use the ideas of a writer you agree with, you don’t need to give the source.
- Which of the following cases is not plagiarism? A: You paraphrase a sentence and you do not document the source. B: You change a few words and omit a few here and there and you document the source. C: You paraphrase and summarize the main idea of the original essay and present these ideas as yours. D: You use your own observation, thoughts, compilation of facts and experimental results.