Taking Notes and Staying Out of Trouble

Plagiarism is using someone else's thought or idea and claiming it as your own. Plagiarism can be both intentional and unintentional. Being effective in note-taking means that you are skilled at taking in information and being able to write it down as your own, while at the same time respecting other people's ideas and writings. When I take notes, I always cite the information if it is a direct quote or if i pull the main idea out of someone else's work. Every time i find an idea of another researcher or author that i like, i write his information down after the information that i pulled from the document is taken. Also, i try to put it in my own style of writing or wording to where the ideas are similar, but its from my own creativity or thought, not from the original script. I feel that at sometimes, plagiarism for some people can be hard to avoid because most of the time it is unintentional and they didn't realize they were doing it. Another effective way to avoid it is to cite the article/author first, and then, if you find any direct quotes or ideas, mark them with a sign, such as quotations or stars. But also know that when you put into a work, you must cite each quote to respect the text.