Plagiarism and paraphrasing

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1-What is plagiarism?
2-How to avoid it and strategies
3-What is paraphrasing?

Plagiarism is when you take someone else’s ideas/words and put it down as your own. Plagiarism can also be if you write a paper and hand it in multiple times. You can even plagiarize by buying a paper off someone or using information from a source and then not citing it.

You can avoid plagiarizing by putting quotations on all the text that from a source or you could cover up the text with your hand and try to put it into your own words.

Paraphrasing is when you use someone’s idea but you change a few words. A lot of the time on the internet you go on a website, look at the information and then you start writing that information down but you want it to look like it’s your work, so you change a few words.

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PLAGIARISM

Information from: IU Code of Student Rights.

PLAGIARISM

Cheating, stealing, thievery. Another word to add to the vocabulary is plagiarism. Plagiarism is when you use someone else’s words or ideas and use them in your essay, speech (etc.) with out properly acknowledging them.

There are a few ways that you could plagiarize, this includes: not citing your your information (not saying where and who you got your information from), NOT using quotation marks if you did not make the information into your own words, and lastly only changing around a few words or phrases from the original text. Plagiarism could get you in HUGE trouble. Any where from failing a test, to getting expelled from school. That is why we need to put plagiarism to a stop!

Luckily, there are strategies and ways to avoid plagiarism. A few ways are: to put quotes on EVERYTHING that is directly from the original text. Cite your information to make sure the original writer gets credit. The last thing is to, paraphrase. Paraphrasing is using someone else’s words or ideas, but putting the information into your OWN words. Do remember when paraphrasing, that if you only switch around a few words or phrases it will still be plagiarism. To avoid doing that, cover up the text that you were reading from, so you don’t see it. Then start writing! When you have finished writing check the text to make sure your information is accurate.

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What is plagiarism

Information from: IU code of students rights, responsibilities and conduct, youtube: paulrobesonlibrary.

What is plagiarism? Plagiarism is taking someones idea, theory, or opinion without citing it. It can also be facts, statistcs, graphs, drawngs, any peices of informaton that is not common knowledge. It is even consdered plagiarsm if you use something that you wote before and hand it in again. There can be very serious consequences for plagiarism, including failing the paper, the course, even expulsion from the school!

How you can avoid plagiarism is quite simple- cite all informton you get from sources. The best thing to do is state where you got everything from in your notes, so for the final copy it is all there. As long as you are not copying someone's written or spoken words withought giving them credit, then you are not plagiarising.

What is paraphasing? Paraphrasing is using someone elses ideas but putting them in your own words. People mostly use this when they incorporate sources into their writing. Even though it is your writing it is still someone elses idea so you have to cite it or else you are plagiarising.

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Plagiarisim

What is Plagiarism?

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This information is from the I.U. code of student rights, responsibilities, and conduct; and YouTube: PaulRobsen library.

What is plagiarism? Plagiarism is using other people’s words and ideas without acknowledging the source of information properly. It is also plagiarism if you write a paper for a class and the next year you have to write a paper on the same topic and you use the paper from the previous year. An example of plagiarism that someone can do without realizing: Let’s say that I go to www.en.wikipedia.com/wiki/Lady_Gaga and copy and paste a paragraph or a few sentences onto my report without clearly saying where I got that information. That is plagiarism.

How do you avoid plagiarism? To avoid plagiarizing give credit whenever you use someone opinion, idea, or theory; whenever you use any facts, statistics, or drawings that are not "common knowledge", and quotations from another person’s written words. To avoid plagiarizing you can also paraphrase.

What is paraphrasing? Paraphrasing is where you use someone’s ideas or theory but you write them in your own words and at your level. Because you are using someone’s idea you still need to give credit though. From my own experience paraphrasing is super useful to learn how to do and once you know how to do it is much easier to write when you are using a source of information!

Plagiarism: What is it and how to avoid it

Plagiarism is using other people`s ideas and words without clearly acknowledging the source of that information.

To avoid plagiarism you must give credit when ever you use another person`s spoken or written words you can use quotation marks on any words, sentences or paragraphs. Any facts, statics, graphs, drawings- any pieces of information, that are not common knowledge.

Paraphrasing is when the writer records the information in the original passage accurately. The writer also gives the credit for the ideas in this passage.

Plagiarism

What is plagiarism?

Plagiarism is when you use other people’s ideas and words and you don’t give credit to that source of information. If you don’t acknowledge another person’s ideas, opinions, facts. Statistics, quotations or paraphrasing, that is also considered plagiarism.

How to avoid plagiarism

Here are some ways to avoid plagiarism: if you put another person’s information into your own words and credit the source, that won’t be considered plagiarism. If you put quotation marks in a sentence that shows the reader that the sentences are taken right from the source. Another way to avoid plagiarism is by citing – that is when you put a number at the end of a sentence and when you put the same number at the bottom of the page which tells you the number with the source that you got it from.

Paraphrasing

Paraphrasing is when you take a source, take the information of the source and put it in your own words. However, if you only change a few words or phrases, or change the order of the sentences, that will usually be considered plagiarism.

Plagiarism Summary

Plagiarism Summary

Plagiarism is stealing another person’s ideas. Plagiarism is not a good behaviour because consequences may be severe and troublesome. The consequences may vary by which school you go to. There are also different ways to plagiarize. For example, buying papers off the internet or even using your own written paper twice! Plagiarism may seem hard to avoid but there are ways to prevent you from plagiarizing.

There are in fact many ways to avoid plagiarism. To prevent the risk of plagiarism, you must give credit to the source when you use someone else’s ideas, opinion or theory. You must also give credit to any information that is not common knowledge or you can paraphrase the ideas. Another strategy for avoiding plagiarism is to quotation marks on the information from the text and write “according to ____ “. Paraphrasing is also an option, but when you are finished, you should check the paraphrase to the text for large similarities.

Paraphrasing is a very helpful skill to learn. Paraphrasing is when you use someone else’s ideas or information, except that you must put the information in your own words. Paraphrasing is helpful because it is not plagiarism and it still successfully expresses the information needed.

Plagiarism

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Plagiarism
From: IU code of student rights, responsibilities, and conduct.

Plagiarism is when you copy others work without giving credit. Plagiarism is also when you hand in a paper you have already handed in before. It is very important to give credit where credit is due. If you don’t it could result in failing or in a serious case, expulsion.

You can avoid plagiarism by putting the author’s name in brackets after a quote. If you use an Internet site, the sites URL should be written after you say something that came from that site. You must give credit when you use: another person’s idea, any facts or statistics, graphs, drawings, and any piece of information that is not common knowledge.

In your paper you may use paraphrasing. Paraphrasing is where you put other people’s work in your own words. This is not plagiarism as long as it’s mostly your own ideas. However if you do not put it in your own words it will be counted as plagiarism.