What is plagiarism ? How can you avoid plagiarism while referring to someone's else's creation ?

Plagiarism is stealing someone else's intellectual work, such as an idea, literary work or academic work etc., and representing it as our own work without giving credit to creator or without citing the source of information.

To avoid plagiarism while referring to someone else's creation, we must give credit whenever we use:

1. Another person's idea, opinion, or theory;
2. Quotations of another person's actual spoken or written words; or
3. Paraphrase of another person's spoken or written words