In order to avoid plagiarism one first needs to know how to recognize it.

So first we’ll look at

original sources from a Political Science text, a photograph from the National Archives of
Canada, and a graph from Statistics Canada and then some samples, using these sources, of
how plagiarism might occur in student writing and how to steer clear of plagiarizing. 

Our Sample Text

Hartz has argued correctly that it is characteristic of fragment societies to be intolerant of rival
ideologies. Our argument is that Canada is not a fragment society, but exhibits the ideological
diversity of European societies, although it has a more liberal cast. This toleration, born of the
necessity to live with and listen to the other voices in the ideological conversation, has deeply
affected Canadian political life. Thus, we have noted a willingness in all of the major Canadian
ideologies to be open, sometimes too open, to developments elsewhere. Canadian Liberalism
had, by the 1919 convention, accepted the modifications of liberalism suggested in Britain by
Green and Hobhouse, and had begun to develop a form of welfare liberalism in this country.
The Conservative Party willingly accepted the lead of Disraeli and the British Tory Party in the
nineteenth century. More recently, it has turned its attention to the United States,… (Christian
and Campbell, 1990, p.283)

Our Sample Photograph

"Troop Front" Canadian Mounted Rifles with Second Contingent South Africa
(Source: Canada. Library and Archives Canada.photo # PA-028895)

Our Sample Graph

[Crime Rates by Province and Territory, 2003 graph]
(Source: Canada. Statistics Canada, 2004)

Credits
 
Here are the original sources for the examples that follow: The text is taken from Christian,
William, and Colin Campbell. Political Parties and Ideologies in Canada. Third Edition, Toronto:
McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1990. 283. (Material copyright of William Christian and Colin Campbell
and used with their permission.)
 
The photograph is from Canada. The National Archives of Canada. Patent and Copyright Office
Collection, ArchiviaNet: On-line Research Tool. "'Troop Front.' Canadian Mounted Rifles with
Second Contingent South Africa. By Steele and Co. 1900. Accession No. 1966-094. July 28,
2004: 1. <http://data4.collectionscanada.ca/netacgi/nph-brs?s1=troop+front&1=20&Se... …
> July 28, 2004. (Copyright: Expired)
 
The graph is from Canada. Statistics Canada. "Crime Statistics, 2003." The Daily. Ottawa:
Statistics Canada. catalogue no. 11-001-XIE. Wednesday, July 28, 2004: 2.
<http://www/statcan.ca/Daily/English/040728/d040728a.htm.> (Permission granted.)