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- Revise drafts for clarity and conciseness
- Revise drafts for grammar and mechanical errors
- Incorporate sources more effectively into your text
- Use the correct documentation style
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An information literate individual is able to:
Understand the economic, legal, and social issues surrounding
the use of information, and access and use information ethically and
legally
Read more about the ACRL Information Literacy Standards
Understanding Citations
Plagiarism
To avoid plagiarism, you must give credit whenever you use
- another person’s idea, opinion, or theory;
- any facts, statistics, graphs, images—any pieces of information—that are not common knowledge;
- quotations of another person’s actual spoken or written words; or
- paraphrase of another person’s spoken or written words.
Here are some links to tutorials that will help you understand more about plagiarism and how to avoid it:
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