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What Every Student Should Know About Avoiding Plagiarism

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Students will take plagiarism seriously and understand its consequences with this timely and effective supplement. Here, source usage methods — summary, paraphrase and quotation — are explained, with examples. The most common types of plagiarism are discussed, from simple mistakes such as forgetting to use quotation marks when using someone else’s exact words, or failing to acknowledge another’s thoughts and ideas, to wholesale fraudulence, such as purchasing stud… More >>

The Simple Facts About Plagiarism

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Anyone who is a writer is concerned with plagiarism. Copyright Laws protect copyright holders from having their works plagiarized. The word plagiarism is derived from the word “kidnapper” in Latin. If a person uses another person’s words without permission, they have stolen or kidnapped something owned by somebody else. This violates copyright law. Plagiarism is a menacing word in the writing world. Crediting the author of the work will not keep someone immune from violating copyright law. Plagiarism is plagiarism. Read the rest of this entry »

What are the websites to go to to detect plagiarism?

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I have a student that I suspect of plagiarism. She has told me that it is her original work but I just want to be sure. I need the websites that detect plagiarism and will give me the websites address so that I can give them to her.

What is plagiarism and how do you avoid it?

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What is plagiarism and how do you avoid it?

If you paraphrase something from a source do you have to cite it in your research paper? Explain.

What is essay plagiarism? If a style and tone of an original is duplicated and paraphrased, is it plagiarized?

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I had a writing partner personalize an alliterative essay from a textbook. She duplicated the essay and used alliteration. It was all paraphrased but the style and tone were an exact copy of the original. I think my partner committed plagiarism, even though she got an “A”.
Is it okay to copy a document style, if it’s paraphrased with one’s own experiences?