Sunday, February 1, 2009

Plagiarism


I've just learnt about plagiarism in class. I have some thoughts about plagiarism.
  • Plagiarism is basically a form of cheating, or rather copying others' ideas without permission.
  • For all netizens out there, I suggest that you place a citation after a phrase or picture etc. if you take an idea from a website to avoid plagiarising.
  • Finally, plagiarism doesn't pay.

I have some other tips here to help you avoid plagiarism:

  • another person’s idea, opinion, or theory;
  • any facts, statistics, graphs, drawings—any pieces of information—that are not common knowledge;
  • quotations of another person’s actual spoken or written words; or
    paraphrase of another person’s spoken or written words.

See? I even placed a citation and a link here!http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/pamphlets/plagiarism.shtml

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