User:Gusk80/sandbox/whatisplagiarism

Blog posts and press releases are poor sources of information because they don't come from an unbiased and neutral point of view. They will often have a motive for posting information that will make the text not appropriate for Wikipedia content. A company website is another example of a biased source and should not be used. The website is set up to market towards interested people, not to relay accurate, unbiased, and thorough facts about the company. A copyrighted violation is where you use someone's work without their permission when their work is protected under copyright. Plagiarism is where you claim work as your won when it is not. To avoid close paraphrasing and plagiarism you should read text and then ask yourself what the text was telling you about in summary so that you can put it in your own words without forming a similar sentence. Oral records may be more difficult to review, and the word of an individual person may not be unbiased and appropriate. Wikipedia's definition of plagiarism is the same as what I have experienced in higher education.