When can I be at risk of plagiarism?

Sooner or later at university you will get to produce your own texts, and then you will need to work with other professional texts. If you take the content of another author's text without visible attribution, you are in breach of the Copyright Act. Altering, rewriting or paraphrasing a text does not make it your work – you still have to reference to the original author. It is therefore essential that you know how to handle the texts and how to cite correctly.