Example: Jelani found a great paragraph in a journal article. He changed it just enough with a few words to make it look like his.
Jelani uses a full paragraph from an article.
Braasch, G. (2013). Climate change: Is seeing believing?. Bulletin Of The Atomic Scientists, 69(6), 33-41. doi:10.1177/0096340213508628
The image bottom left is a paragraph in a 2013 article on climate change.
The image bottom right is Jelani's use of the paragraph where he simply changes a few words and rearranges some of the sentences (his changes are in yellow). Jelani also does not cite the paragraph.
Simply changing some words and/or restructuring a sentence or two does not make the paragraph Jelani's. He is STEALING the words of another.
Jelani uses the paragraph in his paper, and then adds a some words of his own throughout the original text and/or rearranges sentences. He didn't attempt to summarize or cite the information.
