When managing your information on a specific source, it's crucial that you do so without plagarizing. Even thought sometimes you might not even mean to, it happens. Keep a record of your sources, it's called a bibliography. After you've gotten all that down you can read it and annotate it and make comments and sentences about the main ideas, summarize it a little bit so you have an idea about what you want to keep your focus on. When you're taking notes try not to put the same words from the article or place you're taking notes from, and avoid plagarizm that way. Resist the temptation to look at the article. Read it and then summarize what you got from it.
A summer condenses information, you can reduce a chapter to a short paragraph or a paragraph to a short sentence. A summery should always be written in your own words and if you use phrases from the source, be sure to put it in quotation marks. A quotation consists of exact words from a source. Even when you write your notes, put all your quoted material in quotation marks so you don't miss them when you go to write your final paper.
I've always been taught about plagerizm in school and high school and all that but I've never had a problem with it. It's pretty clear and easy to avoid. Like the chapter said, I always make sure I quote where I got my information from if it's not my own. Plagerizm doesn't seem that big of a deal but honestly the way teachers and staff address it, it seems like a pretty big deal to me so I just avoid it at all costs.
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