Plagiarization is when you're committing the act of plagiarism; or to make things simpler, stealing some suggestions or words from someone and treating them like your very own suggestions or words.
It is very important for you not to plagiarize anything because if you do, you could end up in serious trouble. Examples of plagiarism is having another person do your work, purchasing a paper containing words that aren't from you, believing that taking numerous lines and/or words from a different place or more won't make a huge difference as they're factual and isn't worth being admitted, and more.
Here's what happens if you plagiarize at Curtis High School:
1. Your parents may be notified of this, which will lead into a punishment or more at home.
2. You might also end up with a weak grade for plagiarizing.
3. You can be expelled from the class.
4. You could get suspended from school.
To use a proper Modern Language Association (MLA for short) website citation, here's what you need to do. First of all, add the compiler name or the author with a period after it. Next, put in the name of the article in quotes. Put the period after the last letter of the article's name, but before the last quote. Then, add the website the citation came from. But don't forget to italicize it! Add a period next to the website too. After that, put in the organization's or institution's name that's associated with the website, then add a comma, and put in the resource creation's date with a period after it. Now you're nearly finished with the citation! Coming up next, add in the medium of publication with a period after it. Finally, place the date of access at the end. Obviously you need to add in a period afterwards. Now you've used a proper MLA website citation!
As for a sole webpage on a site, put in the compiler name if the author is unknown. Otherwise, use the author's name instead. Finally, if an organization or institution name isn't on the page, use n.p. instead, and if there's no publishing date, use n.d.
N.D. stands for No Date by the way while N.P. means No Publisher.
Below is an example of an MLA website citation.
