Examples of Plagiarism
Direct Quote
“People of Panem, we fight, we dare, we end our hunger for justice!”
Paraphrase
In the eighteenth century, there were two types of language used to define human rights. They were the rights of citizens of a specific country and a more global type of human rights for everyone. The American colonists used both at different times to voice their opinions or beliefs against the British. They cited their rights as British citizens while protesting the Stamp Act in the mid seventeenth century and later they cited the universal rights of man as they worked on the verbiage of the Bill of Rights.
In both scenarios, there is no parenthetical citation at the end to inform the reader of the original source.
Proper Citation(MLA 8)
“People of Panem, we fight, we dare, we end our hunger for justice!” (Collins 11).
According to Lynn Hunt, there were two types of language used to define human rights in the eighteenth century, They were the rights of citizens of a specific country and a more global type of human rights for everyone. The American colonists used both at different times to voice their opinions or beliefs against the British. They cited their rights as British citizens while protesting the Stamp Act in the mid seventeenth century and later they cited the universal rights of man as they worked on the verbiage of the Bill of Rights (116-17).
Using reliable resources such as Library databases, are another way to avoid plagiarism Using resources from the library, or websites with domain names such as .gov, .mil, and .edu are easier to cite than other random resources.