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• Plagiarism is failing to acknowledge your resources or stealing them from someone else
• you must acknowledge any info you did not know, visuals, stats, interviews, abstracts?
• What are abstracts?
• It also involves paraphrasing and summarizing without citing
• Copyright is the legal right to control the reproduction of any original work, a copyrighted work is the intellectual property of the copyright holder
• How do you know when a work is copyrighted?
• Maintain a working biography to help you use your research efficiently
• Summarizing states the main point of the piece of research