Talk:Plagiarism/@comment-94.75.73.228-20110226101303/@comment-71.57.88.240-20110226224507

Language is limited, you are right. That is why attribution protocols exist. So if I like what Amy Excellence wrote, when she said, "...over time we have seen a great diminishment in the number of widgets built in Manchester..", I can cite her idea by writing it in my own words, with an attribution, thusly: As we have seen in recent years, Manchester's production of widgets has lessened (Excellence, 2009). Without the cite, I am plagiarizing. With the cite, I am giving my readers a roadmap to understand the foundations upon which I built my brilliant Widgets Dissertation.