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In this video
we will discuss about What is plagiarism? Which ways are regarded as plagiarism
and which not? And how to avoid plagiarim in our academic writings.
Firstly, let us
talk about plagiarism.
Basically, plagiarism
means claiming other's ideas as one's own.
It means taking
information or ideas from other writers and using them in one's own work
without acknowledging the sources appropriately.
Mostly the University students seem to have faced the
issues of plagiarism as they use other's works without citing or acknowledging
them either by intention or due to lack of knowledge on the importance of
quoting or citing.
As a matter of
fact, plagiarism is a form of intellectual dishonesty or theft.
Since it is a
serious academic offence or sin, each writer should attempt his or her best to
avoid plagiarism.
There are many
ways of taking information from others which would be considered plagiarism:
First and basic
way is _ not providing reference when we have used other's ideas in our work.
Similarly, no
use of quotation marks even if we provide the reference can also be considered
plagiarism.
Accordingly if
we take a few sentences or paragraphs out of other books or articles belonging
to other writer without referencing, that would be considered plagiarism.
Now, there are
some other ways we can follow without being charged of plagiarism
First point
is...use of commonly
accepted ideas even without referencing.
second is presenting
the results of our own work
use of some
vocabulary from the original or use of some new sentence structures which are
different from the ones in the original texts.
similarly if we
use the summary substantially different from the original, our way would be
plagiarism-free.
Now, lets think
of ways to avoid this kind of academic sin...
In order to
maintain academic honesty, the author needs to avoid plagiarism in his or her
writing. As a matter of fact, the writer is supposed to consult various sources
including books, articles and various websites and blogs which needs to be
properly cited and referenced.
On one hand,
proper citing and referencing would avoid plagiarism, and on the other, it
would show respect to the ideas and information of others.
Some of the
ways to avoid plagiarism can be discussed in the following points.
The first one
is...Integrating quotations into the text:
We need to
properly quote others' ideas if they are included in our text.
Quotations are
mainly used for providing support for the writer's argument,
giving examples
of different viewpoints on the topic,
justifying the
relationship between the writer's and other's ideas, etc.
They are also
called in-text citations.
According to
Hamp-Lyons and Heasley (2008), "Quotations are to fulfill their function,
they need to be identical to the original word for word, and must be attributed
to the author.:
Next way to
avoid plagiarism is to paraphrase or summarize the original source or text in
writer's own words. However, it would be honest of him to cite the resources.
The third and
most important way of avoiding plagiarism is Referencing or citing :
The sources
used for the creation of any academic texts should be properly referenced under
the section 'Reference' or 'Works Cited'.
The sources are
arranged alphabetically by author's last names, or when there is no author, by
the first word of the title excluding different articles in the beginning.
Within the
list, if a particular author is cited more than once, then the author's entries
are ordered chronologically with the most recent first".
There are mainly
two systems which are used for referencing or identifying the resources: They
are MLA (Modern Language Association) and APA (American Psychological
Association)
For more
information on MLA and APA check out for our another video.
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