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Understanding Plagiarism in the Digital Age: Inaccurate Citation Plagiarism

Inaccurate Citations

You may cite a source correctly, but if you forget to use quotation marks around copied material, it is still plagiarism. This is deceptive because you are presenting someone else's specific words as your own. Copied phrases, especially those more than four or five words long, must be enclosed in quotation marks. The only exception is for proper names of people, places, or things.