Is it plagiarism? #2

What is a Quotation?

A quote is when you use someone else's exact words in your assignment. Pretty much any time you copy and paste text from the internet, copy something out of a book word-for-word, or write down exactly what someone said out loud.

Why would I use a quotation in my assignment?

Quotations can be really useful to use as evidence for an assignment. It might be using a passage from the book you have read for English: The author clearly wants us to feel sympathy for the character during the scene when she wrote "....." (p. 28).
You might also want to use a quote to prove your point in a Humanities report: According to the the United States Holocaust Museum "...."
The same approaches can be used for any of your subjects.

How do I use a quote in my assignment without plagarising?

Quotations are easy - all you need to do is use quotation marks around them to show that they are a direct quote.
Once you hit year 9, you are also encouraged to indicate where the quote came from. The easiest way of doing this is to put the author's surname and date of publication in brackets after the quote:

"To be, or not to be: that is the question" (Shakespeare, 1609)

That way your teacher can flick to your bibliography and find the rest of the information pointing to where you found your quote.