In the previous module, you started learning about using sources to make your essays more academic. Pay attention to the four different ways that I'm going to show you for how to use sources correctly. You're not going to write an essay in this module, but there's a lot to learn and practice.

On the left I highlighted something that's blue, and on the right side I made it pink to show you how the student changed a few words. He is plagiarizing because he took words and ideas and did not give credit to the original author. So now you know what the problem is, we need to talk about how you can avoid this so that you don't commit plagiarism in your writing.

The second way to prevent plagiarizing when using someone else's words is to use a direct quote but without attribution and that's what this student does. The student still put quotation marks around all of the part that is borrowed from the original source. Here the student used attribution again, so he mentions the writer's name in his sentence, but this time there's no quotation marks.