Spring Break Post #2 (Plagiarizing)

In Mrs. Galangs post about plagiarism, what the student did wrong was basically copy and paste someone elses words. He/She could've included the text as a quotation then in order to cite the source correctly. He/She also did not acknowledge that this text was written by a different author thats not themself. If the person wanted to incorporate a piece of text from this website, he/she should've written it like so;

To begin explaining this painting, its basically a mysterious nighttime scenery. "There is the night sky filled with swirling clouds, stars ablaze with their own luminescence, and a bright crescent moon," (A Brief Understanding of the Starry Night Paintings) 

There are many ways to avoid plagiarism. One way is to always cite your source, even if you just summarized what the article/text said. Also, make sure to only rely factual evidence instead of opinion (when researching), which should obviously come from you. And its okay to include other authors voices, if you put it in as a quote.