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Originally Posted by murg
We don't call it plagiarism. We call it research.
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It's fine to quote someone's work in an essay, but you have to attribute your sources. Eg, this is from one of my recent essays for my Egyptology degree and is talking about Egyptian ideas of the afterlife:
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Re died a symbolic death at sunset as he re-entered the Akhet and returned to the Duat where he joined with Osiris, a process which rejuvenated both Re and Osiris, before Re was reborn with the next sunrise (Taylor 2010, p.20). As Allen expresses it: “from Osiris the sun received the power of new life, and through the sun Osiris was enabled to live again” (Allen 2014, p.121).
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I can quote Allen, but I have to make clear that it is a quote, and I attribute the source. Proper referencing is key in academic writing. The idea is to allow the reader to check your sources. Every time you make a statement that's not your own idea, but someone else's, you have to say where that idea comes from.