What is plagiarism? How to avoid it? Video and Full Trasnscript

 

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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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