American culture recognizes each individual's written and verbal ideas to be legal property. Thus, borrowing words or ideas from another individual without crediting them is considered stealing, not a ...

These phrases alert your reader that you as a writer are about to summarize or paraphrase another idea established by an authority on a chosen topic. Note that while some of these are quite neutral, ...

Students write a lot, and the issue of plagiarism (or, at least, wrong paraphrasing) remains topical. As educators, what can you do to help students avoid the problem? Everything starts with suspicion ...