The expectation is for you to indicate where you are receiving your information. It is not enough to just add a reference at the end of your article. If you are directly quoting from a source, please use quotations and then indicate where you received that info.
For instance:
Portions of your writing do not appear to be original. Your text appears to originate from the following article that was posted sometime in 2012: AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BEN CARSON
I have listed an example below, but there are others.
| Your Article | Source | Original Author |
|---|---|---|
| He began to realize that he was not stupid and very soon he rose to the top of his class. The hunger for knowledge had taken hold of him and within a year, his teachers and classmates were amazed with his improvement. | INSPIRE | he began to realize that he wasn't stupid. Within a year he was at the top of his class, and the hunger for knowledge had taken hold of him. It wasn't easy in the predominantly all-white school, though. After Ben received a certificate of achievement at the semester break, one of the school's teachers berated the white students for letting a black student get ahead of them academically. |
| He developed a violent and uncontrollable temper, and was known to attack other children at the slightest provocation. He was always fighting and getting into trouble. | INSPIRE | He developed a violent and uncontrollable temper, and was known to attack other children at the slightest provocation. The poverty he lived in and the difficult times he experienced in school seem to exacerbate the anger and rage. |
Please don't forget our original discussion: Judicious
Thanks @scholaris.pob for pointing the error. I will effect correction in my next post.