But be willing to be wrong. If someone challenges your opinions, test the new idea and try to learn from it. Critical thinking may be the greatest skill you can learn in college. It is integral to research in the library. Do your own work.
Plagiarism is academic dishonesty and can mean failure in a course and suspension from college.
Plagiarism is passing off someone else's work as your own. It can mean lifting someone else's words or even paraphrasing them slightly without giving credit to the original author or authors. Academic dishonesty also includes handing in a paper that someone else wrote or turning in the same assignment for different classes without first getting permission from the instructors to do so. It includes using a single source for ideas and claiming it to be research.