"Credit Alligator"

     "Credit is acknowledging the ideas or other work of writers and contributors." 

     

     What is credit alligator? It is copying words or ideas from those sources without giving credit to the author. Copying others work without the permission of the owner or the author. You claim others work.

     For example,Some people claim quotations or sayings. When they take quotations they don't put quotation marks to show that it is a direct quotes. When taking information or ideas in books they just copying the words but they don't change the words or they just paraphrasing the sentences.

     You/We must give credit to sources of information and ideas. We should not claim others work. If we are not the one who write, we must give credit. If we/you forgot to give credit you stolen other works without their permission. Why we should give credit? So that the reader can tell what is yours and what is someone else. To show where you get information from. We should use our own words.


Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_(creative_arts)