What is plagiarism? How to avoid?

1. PLAGIARISM
Daniela Ortiz Santamaría
Instrumentación Quirúrgica
Universidad de Antioquia

2. “It occurs when Not
literally
acknowledges
having used certain
ideas or words of
another person.

3. When writing a letter
where research is
needed to be clarified
where the ideas
themselves are not
obtained, and a
summary or paraphrase
quote is drawn.
It should take into
account the rules
established by the APA
(American Psychological
Association) or MLA
(Modern Language
Association) at the time
of quoting.

4. The quotation must be enclosed in parentheses in
each paragraph and not in the footer
According to APA:
The author's name and the
date of publication of the
work is written in reference
At the end of the letter should include
the complete Bibliography.
According to MLA:
Author's last name and
page number of the text
that I write is extracted

5. Is quoted:
* Facts, figures and
statistics that are not
common knowledge.
* Specific ideas or
theories that have
been proposed by
others.
* Any specific information
that is not public
knowledge (So the
question that what is or
not have).

6. To avoid plagiarism should :
* Quote data source directly
quoted.
* Paraphrasing ideas and cite
references. You must use your own
words and try to phrase it as different
as possible.

7. To paraphrase correctly you must achieve :
Use synonyms to all words
that are not generic
Change of passive,
active voice or vice
versa.
Change sentence
structure
Reduce paragraphs or
sentences
Change parts of
text

8. If the source is a website or web page, this should
also cite and use the above rules. "
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Indiana University
Bloomington, December 07, 2002.)

9. EL PLAGIO: QUE ES Y COMO SE EVITA. [on-line]. Available in :
http://alondra.udea.edu.co/moodle/pluginfile.php/50074/mod_resource
/content/1/plagio.pdf . [2014, April 14]
Plagio: ¿Qué es y cómo se evita?. [on-line]. Available in :
http://www.eduteka.org/PlagioIndiana.php3. [2014,April 14]
CIBERGRAFIA

10. [1] Document Translation Eduteka "Plagiarism: What it Is and How to Avoid It,"
published in English by the library of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
as part of the course "Expository Writing for Bilingual Students."
[2] Document Translation Eduteka "Plagiarism: What It is and How to
Recognize and Avoid It", published in English by the Services Writing
Instruction at Indiana University in Bloomington, USA.
[3] Guide to cite APA guide for citing the MLA Guide to cite electronic
documents ISO 690-2 (Spanish, pdf format).
Publication of this document Eduteka: December 7, 2002.
This document last updated: December 7, 2002.
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