Posted: March 10th, 2017

Credit the source, including authors, photographers, videographers and artists.

As far as academic rules are concerned, you must not, intentionally or UNINTENTIONALLY, represent the work of others as your own. To avoid plagiarism:

(1) Paraphrase in your own words a short summary of the material,

(2) Inject your own opinion,

(3) Provide a hyperlink to the original referenced online material,

(4) If you quote a short passage, make it VISUALLY DIFFERENT (different fonts, sizes, colors or indents) from your original material, so the reader understands that it’s a quote,

(5) Credit the source, including authors, photographers, videographers and artists.

Ware moving from being a verbally-literate society into being a visually-literate one. That’s not to say that people will stop curling up with a good book. However, in most day-to-day communications, people prefer to read short messages, and be entertained, enlightened and emotionally-engaged by images. Once again, make your postings short – about 100 to 200 words each, and be sure to use images that support the text.