Submitting anyone else s work under your name is plagiarism and can get you expelled from college. Presenting someone else s ideas as your own is also plagiarism. This discrepancy in feeding rates might reflect differences in light levels. Perhaps the difference in rates reflects differences in the density at which the animals were held during the two experiments. The first example is fine.
Plagiarism sometimes occurs unintentionally, through faulty note-taking.
If an idea is relevant, you should jot down a summary using your own words. Sometimes the authors words seem so perfect that you cannot see how they might be revised to best advantage for your paper. In this case, you may wish to copy a phrase or a sentence or two verbatim, but be sure to enclose this material in quotation marks as you write, and clearly indicate the source and page number from which the quotation derives. If you modify the original wording slightly as you take notes, you should indicate this as well. Each person present in the tutorial during your oral presentation will fill out the following form.