Response to Ms. Galang's Post on Plagiarism

*What did the student do wrong? What could he/she have done to include the source correctly?

The student copied the text without paraphrasing or putting anything in quotations. He/she could have taken excerpts out of the text and put them in quotations or paraphrased it. The student also should have actually written most of it and should only use a few quotations instead of whole piece of text that someone else wrote.

*Write a sentence using the original source correctly; use a quotation or paraphrase. Also, make sure to cite correctly. Consult my post on citing sources.

The author of  "A Brief Understanding of the Starry night Paintings" stated about the painting: "There is the night sky filled with swirling clouds, stars ablaze with their own luminescence, and a bright crescent moon (Unknown Author)."

* What are at least 3 ways to avoid plagiarizing?

To make sure you don't accidentally plagiarize, if you're reading a text, instead of reading part of it and then paraphrasing that part and continuing to read, you can read the whole thing and then write what you remember to make sure you don't write almost the same thing. You can also remember to put things in quotes and to remember to paraphrase as best as you can.