Discover the main solutions for writers for avoiding plagiarism in any writing assignments.

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2. • Occurs when a writer deliberately uses someone else’s language,
ideas, or other original (not common-knowledge) material without
acknowledging its source
• (Council of Writing Program Administrators)
Plagiarism. Definition
and Examples

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Plagiarism. Definition
and Examples

4. How To Avoid Plagiarism
And Careless Sourcing
1. One must be able to think when one writes,
and thinking is not borne out of laziness.
2. Read and digest the source material prior to
writing.
3. Use the downtime to formulate the outline of a
particular article to be able to grasp the
information, references, researches, and
additional things needed to come up with an
article efficiently.

5. 4. Use the sources to support originally
developed ideas but not to make them the
main content of the paper.
5. If you’re going to paraphrase, make sure it
is done only to support an argument or an
idea and don’t forget to cite sources.
6. Starting a writing assignment a few days or
a few hours till deadline will only tense you
up. Pressure is the enemy of creativity. And
a tense writer is a dead writer.
How to avoid plagiarism
and careless sourcing

6. Example of
paraphrasing
• Original Text: “However, its [television] growth
was halted by the outbreak of the Second
World War, and it was not until the 1950s
that development started again” (Steinberg,
2007, p. 9)
• Paraphrased Version: Television resumed its
development in the 1950s after the Second
World War hampered its growth (Steinberg,
2007).

7. Notes on paraphrasing
Paraphrasing is not merely changing the order of
the words.
Original Text: “However, its [television] growth was
halted by the outbreak of the Second World War,
and it was not until the 1950s that development
started again” (Steinberg, 2007, p. 9).
It was not until the 1950s that development
started again after its growth was halted by the
outbreak of the Second World War.

8. Notes on paraphrasing
Paraphrasing is not merely changing some of the
words
Original Text: “However, its [television] growth was
halted by the outbreak of the Second World
War, and it was not until the 1950s that
development started again” (Steinberg, 2007, p.
9)
However, its evolution was stopped by the
occurrence of the Second World War, and it
was not until the 1950s that progress started
again.

9. Notes on paraphrasing
• If source material cannot be paraphrased, use
quotation marks with proper in-text citation.
Instead of:
One carries out planning, budgeting,
administrative control and reporting within the
framework of this program structure.
Do this:
One carries out “planning, budgeting,
administrative control and reporting within the
framework of this program structure”
(Rosenberg, n.d., p. 9).

10. Intellectual
dishonesty
1. padding items of a bibliography
2. fabricating data
3. plagiarizing published material, class
assignments, or lab reports
4. including sources in a bibliography or
reference list that you have not used in the
preparation of your paper; listing unused
sources is called padding the bibliography.
(Purdue University)

11. What to cite
1. Words or ideas presented in a magazine, book,
computer program, letter, advertisement, or any
other medium
2. Information gained through interviewing or
conversing with another person, face to face,
over the phone, or in writing
3. newspaper, song, TV program, movie, web page,
copied exact words, or a unique phrase

12. 4. reprinted diagrams, illustrations, charts,
pictures, or other visual materials
5. electronically available media, including
images, audio, video, or other media
What to cite

13. 1. personal experiences, own observations and
insights, own thoughts, and own conclusions
about a subject
2. results obtained through lab or field
experiments
3. own artwork, digital photographs, video,
audio, etc.
What not to cite
anymore

14. What not to cite
anymore
4. "common knowledge," things like folklore,
common sense observations, myths, urban
legends, and historical events (but not historical
documents)
5. generally-accepted facts, e.g., pollution is bad for
the environment, including facts that are accepted
within particular discourse communities, e.g., in
the field of composition studies, "writing is a
process" is a generally-accepted fact.

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