Ways of Reading Third Edition - Martin Montgomery, Alan Durant, Nigel Fabb, Tom Furniss, Sara Mills 2007

2.7 Avoiding plagiarism
Unit 2 Using information sources
Section 1 Basic techniques and problem-solving

If in your essay you use ideas, phrases or other information taken from a book or the Internet, you should always say that you are doing so, and give a reference back to the original source. This means that, when you are gathering this information, you should always label the information with its source. If the source is printed material, you should keep detailed information on the author or editor, date, title and publisher or journal (the kind of information that you might include in a bibliography); at a minimum you must indicate in your notes and carry over into your essay the fact that the information comes from someone other than you. The same applies to material you find on the Internet, where you should in addition copy the website address (and ideally the date when you consulted it as well, as sites change). Be sure to include proper acknowledgement in your essay; if you don’t have notes on the actual source, you should still say that the words or ideas are someone else’s even if you can’t remember who they are. This means that when you write your essay there is no danger of your accidentally inserting material that is not yours into your essay as though you wrote those words or had those ideas or knew those things yourself. (If you do so, you are plagiarizing, whether accidentally or deliberately.) Be particularly careful when making notes or working with Internet material that, if you copy and paste any material into your notes, you always put quotation marks around it to show that you are quoting.