Achievement :3/ content Etiquettes by@ shoaib004
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Plagiarism
Plagiarism is the act of stealing someone eles work and attempting to " pass it off" as your own.
This can apply to anything from term papers to even ideas.
Plagiarism is about copying or acquiring the work of others and,directly or indirectly, claiming it to be your own independent and original work.
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Summarising or paraphrasing anorher person's original idea,research, theory or practice without acknowledging the source. If you do not acknowledge the source you,in effect, implify that it is your idea when it is not
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Examples of Plagiarism
Copying a friend's work.
Buying a finished project.
Having your parents or relatives do your work for you.
Copying and pasting someone's work into yours without citing source.
Types of Plagiarism
All types if Plagiarism involve using someone else's words or ideas without proper citation. That can mean copying a whole text, copying just a snippet or rephrasing an idea.
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There are 5 most common types of plagiarism.
- Global plagiarism
- Direct plagiarism
- Paraphrasing plagiarism
- Patchwork plagiarism
- Self plagiarism
Global plagiarism
Global plagiarism means taking an entire work by someone else and passing it off as your own.
For example if you get someone also to write an essay or assignment for you or if you find a text online and submit it as your own work , you are committing global plagiarism. Because it involve deliberately and directly lying about the authorship of a work, this is the most serious type of Plagiarism.
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Verbating or Direct Plagiarism
Verbating plagiarism also called direct plagiarism, mean copying and and pasting text into your own work without attribution.
If the structure and the majority of the words are the same as in the original, then it is verbatim plagiarism, even of you delete or change a couple of words here and there. If you want to use an authors's exact words, you need to quote the original source by putting the copied text in quotation marks.
Paraphrasing plagiarism
Paraphrasing means rephrasing a piece of text in your own words. Paraphrasing without citating is the most common type of Plagiarism.
Paraphrasing itself is not plagiarism so long as you properly cite your sources. However, Paraphrasing become plagiarism when you read a source and then rewrite its points as if they were your own ideas.
If you translate a piece of text from another language without citation,this is a type of paraphrasing plagiarism.
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Self plagiarism
Self plagiarism means reusing work that you have previously submitted or published. It's considered dishonest to present a paper or a piece of data as brand new when you have already gotten credit for the work. The most serious form of self plagiarism is to turn in a paper you already submitted for the grade to another class. Unless you have explicit permission to do so, this is always considered self plagiarism.
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Self plagiarism can also occur when use ideas, phrases or data from your previous assignment.
Detection of Plagiarism
You've working on a paper and you've just written a line that seems kind of familiars. Did you read it somewhere while you were researching the topic? If you did, does that count as plagiarism
Now, that you're looking at it ,there are a couple of other lines that you know you borrowed from somewhere. You didn't bother with a citation at the time because you were not planning to keep them. But they're an important part of paper.
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Using someone else's text without attribution is plagiarism, whether you meant to do it or not. For students plagiarism often means a failing grade, academic probation or worse.
How to avoid Plagiarism
- Keep track of the sources you consult in your research.
- Paraphrase or quote from your resources.
- Credit the original author in an in text citation and reference list.
- Use a plagiarism checker before you submit.