Plagiarism, what is it? Plagiarism is derived from a Latin word meaning to kidnap. (1) It is when you take someone else’s ideas or writing and trying to say it is your own work. Whenever you take phrases or parts of sentences from someone else’s work, you need to cite your sources. If you don’t quote, or cite your sources, then you are plagiarizing. (1) At the end of your paper, there should be a works cited page, where you list all the places you quoted or paraphrased from. Let’s take a closer look on how exactly you can plagiarize.
Plagiarism is very misunderstood and it is easy to plagiarism if you don’t understand what you are doing. A list of examples of things you might do that are wrong is “using direct quotes without quotation marks, misrepresenting the author’s ideas or main points, using someone else’s ideas without citing them as such, using another person to write, re-write, or edit your work, using one piece of work from one course for another course without instructor permission, failing to attach all group members’ names to an assignment, misquoting of sources.” (2)
There are many consequences of plagiarism. If you plagiarize in school, you may receive no credit for your assignment and have to redo it. College acceptances can be taken back, or a student could be dismissed from a course, or expelled from school. The original authors can sue the plagiarist, and the person will have to pay a lot of money. As you see there are a lot of consequences for plagiarizing, so you would want to avoid it at all cost. But how can you avoid plagiarism? Let’s look at some ways you can prevent it.
One way is by using citations correctly. Some people feel that they use too much, some feel they use too little. Actually, using cit...
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...aken, and can have many consequences, mostly for the plagiarist himself. You can get bad grades, be expelled out of school, or even be sued. By taking a few simple steps, such as efficient note-taking and using citations correctly, you can make sure you avoid this.
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