This question aligns with Chapter 3, "Learning Proper Citation Forms, Finding the Scholarly Debate, and Summarizing and Classifying Arguments: The Annotated Bibliography," of Writing a Research Paper in Political Science.Regarding plagiarism, ______.

A. as long as you change some words from the excerpt you found and cite the author and (if appropriate) the page, you do not have to put the words in quotes and you will have successfully paraphrased
B. you can avoid it and still be considered an excellent writer if you have many direct quotes in your text. Your professor will be impressed to see that you know how and when to indent and that you are including the actual words of the most important experts
C. always include quotes from important authors in your text, but you do not need to explain and state whose words they are because any reader would know that the ideas are not yours
D. you must rewrite, in a significantly different way, the ideas of authors. Most of the time, you are conveying the ideas of these authors and giving them credit, but you are not quoting
E. none of these

Answer: D