Plagiarism is a CRIME! It is defined as the act of claiming the words or ideas of another person as your own.
You need to let readers know when you borrow from a source by introducing a quotation or paraphrase with the name of the author and year of publication.
For example, Alhamid (1999) suggests that there are 2 million smokers in Saudi Arabia.
When reporting what others have said, you must either
Use “quotation marks” if you are directly quoting them, followed by a proper citation, e.g.
“There are 380,000 unemployed people in Saudi Arabia” (Alotaibi 2008:5).
Paraphrase and cite the reference. E.g.
Alotaibi (2008) reports that there are 380,000 jobless people in Saudi Arabia
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