You need to make sure that you do pass off the ideas of others as your own. This can be accidental or purposeful but is plagiarism either way. The best way to avoid this is to identify the information you are using from someone else as you are writing it. Here are some tips on doing this:
- Color code your sources and highlight the text you use from the source. (Ex. "This is a quote from one paper" but the other paper said "this other thing")
- Make the text you are using a link to the source. (Ex. "Don't even look over here")
- Create your works cited and do the proper in-text citation as soon as you use the idea (Ex. "Nailed it!" (Byers, 2019).)
Failure to cite the ideas of others is plagiarism.