I am noticing that a fair number of us use text from web-sites by copying and pasting from several sources, then listing the sources used at the end of the text. This is not enough to avoid plagiarism.
There are two ways to work information from other sources than your own writing into your text.
When you summarize or retell information you read earlier, using just your own words, this is called paraphrasing. No quotation marks are needed, but a lead in to let the reader know that what follows is from a source. And at the end, the bibliographic information is needed. Author, title, publisher, year and location published, and the pages you read.
If you want to use a sentence, poart of a sentence, or more directly as written in the source, you have to quote. Whenever you cut and past, you have to quote. That means putting "quotation marks" around the text and the page number in parenthesis behind the quote. If there is no page number because you clipped text from a web-site, then us this method: after the first quote, put a (1) number one and repeat that at the end of the text or on the works cited page, followed by the bibliographical information. URL and dated visited is the minimum needed for web-resources.
More on quote: here.
Take a few minutes now to study the above source. Then make a new post called: "Using quotes correctly". Write the introductory paragraph of your country report one more time, and use at least two sources from the web. Show me how you paraphrase that source, and make two direct quotes. Do not forget the numbers after text that contains foreign text or information. Make the introduction about 120 words long.
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