Avoiding plagiarism doesn't mean you cannot include others' ideas in your work. In fact, your writing should synthesize (bring together) the research and opinions of experts in the field into a conversation with each other, while adding your ideas to the discussion. It is important that your readers understand which ideas come from you, and which ideas are from others. This is where citation comes in! Watch the video to learn how to successfully write papers that incorporate others’ ideas with your own.
There are three main ways you can incorporate someone else's ideas in your work:
We will go more in-depth about each in the next parts of the tutorial.