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How to avoid Plagiarism?
- 1. HOW TO AVOID PLAGIARISM?
- 3. Synonyms used:- Copying, infringement, stealing and so on
- 4. Examples Same to same hand written content from one’s general Science General Original general Science General Hand written Site 1 Site 2 Copy-Past content from one site to other without any permission
- 5. Protects author from being stolen Theft of intellectual property Help us to indicate about cheating Result in receiving ‘F’ or zero for the assignment
- 6. We can avoid Plagiarism with the help of following ways By Paraphrasing By Quote By Summarizing By Proper Referencing By Proofreading Tools
- 7. By Paraphrasing Paraphrasing is a act of rearrangement of meaning of a sentence or statement by the use of different words. • We should rewrite someone’s original work in our own words • We should not copy-past the exactly words • We should always be specific with our meaning with reference to others in specific manner Example Original sentence The tornado hit the Kolkata last year Paraphrased sentence Last year, Kolkata has damaged by the cyclone
- 8. By Quote Quote is the act of repetition of a sentence, phrase, passage from speech or text said or written by someone • We should use exactly same words from author’s original texts or para within the quotation marks (“ “) • We should insert quotes with the help of phrases and need to put it in quotation marks to show that the words are taken from others • We must include the page number of the source from the original one Example Original sentence: Act as if what you do makes a difference it does. Quote
- 9. By Summarizing Summarising is a way of explaining an idea in shortest form i.e. in 4 – 6 lines without altering the meaning of the original one. • Summary is a shortest form of an idea • To avoid plagiarism we should write the summary in our own words • We should always address original source as reference
- 10. By Proper Referencing Reference is a source of information, the content belongs • To avoid plagiarism, we should mention exact reference from where the content has taken • It includes author name, general name, publication year and a page number • Before submission, we must recheck all sources are inserted or not Example Source: Additional cytosolic machinery for the Fe–S cluster assembly was first identified in yeast and named as cytosolic iron-sulphur cluster assembly (CIA) machinery Proper Reference: Bandhopadhyay S., Chandramouli K., Johnson M. Iron-sulfur Cluster Biosynthesis, Biochem Soc Trans (2008) 36:1112-1119
- 11. By Proofreading Tools The Digital Proofreading or Plagiarism checker tools are used to check how much percentage of data copying from other sources. The tools scans the documents and compare it from database, which highlights the actual source • To avoid plagiarism, we should use a plagiarism checker before submitting our thesis or content • It allows us to identify that weather we leave any copied content/quotes without quotation marks or not • We should use free and paid tools to find out duplicity of copied text like Grammarly and Plag-Scan Example