User talk:Brandon Figaro/sandbox

From my perspective, it was interesting to discover that using an entire paragraph of an author's work can be a copyright violation. It is appropriate to cite small quotes that are crucial for making a topic be understood better, but copying paragraphs from sources that are copyrighted is not something good that should be done for Wikipedia articles. I felt quite fascinated to learn that paraphrasing is a much better method for writing information that has been taken from sources, since paraphrasing means that I would be making the information be in my own words. Making all of the information from sources be phrased in my own words is important, since paraphrasing is a skill that can prevent me from making my words be substantially similar to the words that are in another author's scholarly article or textbook. If my words are substantially similar to the words that have been obtained from another source, then that is considered plagiarism. Plagiarizing is not a good activity for writers to engage in, which means that a writer such as myself must learn to paraphrase information. Brandon Figaro (talk) 02:55, 18 September 2022 (UTC)