TRANSCRIPT: You have a report due in one of your courses. Although you've written reports before, you've only done a few in English. You're not confident in your English reading and writing skills, and you're feeling quite anxious.
You start looking for source material in your native language so you can better understand the research. You find articles you can easily read and feel as though you can take these articles and simply translate them into English. Surely a translation of these articles wouldn't count as plagiarism, since they are now in different words from the original, right?
With that thought in mind, you run the articles through Google Translate and add them to your report. With your report now in English, you submit the assignment.