Consult your textbook for tips and guidelines for appropriate paraphrasing. Your sources deserve credit for ideas as well as exact language. Use attributive tags as well as internal citation conventions. If you have doubts about whether an idea or fact is common knowledge, or if you think your readers might mistakenly consider an idea to have originated with you when it did not, cite your source. If you need guidance, consult your instructor.
Plagiarism contradicts the fundamental values of any university.
For further discussion of Academic Dishonesty and its consequences, consult the Marquette University Undergraduate Bulletin .