Oshi L.

You may use books and Web sites to help you get information for your paper, but don't copy words from your sources into your paper unless you are clearly marking them as quotations and adding a footnote. Even if you copy and paste and then change some of the words so that they don't look exactly like the original source, you have still taken another author's work away from him without giving him any credit for it. You have created something called a derivative work, which is a form of copying according to United States copyright law. Take a look at this article on plagiarism and copyright if you don't believe me. Except for quotations, all of the words you write for your paper should be your own words. Anything else