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1、TheLearningCentreAvoidingPlagiarismAvoidingPlagiarismAvoidingPlagiarismWhatisPlagiarism?Plagiarismisusingthewordsorideasofothersandpresentingthemasyourown.Plagiarismisatypeofintellectualtheft.Itcantakemanyforms,fromdeliberatecheatingtoaccidentallycopyingfromasourcewit
2、houtacknowledgement.Wheneveryouusethewordsorideasofanotherpersoninyourwork,youmustacknowledgewheretheycamefrom.Youcanavoidplagiarismbyfollowingthesuggestionsoutlinedinthisguide.Oneofthecontradictionsofacademicwritingisthatwhileyouareexpectedtoread,researchandrefertoex
3、pertsandauthorities,youarealsoexpectedtoproduce‘original’work.However,itisimportanttorecognisethatallscholarshipinvolvesunderstanding,researching,andexpandingontheworkofotherstosomedegree.Mostoftheacademicworkundergraduatestudentsdoatuniversitywillbebasedonthewords,in
4、formationandideasofotherwriters.Inthiscase,anoriginalcontributionmightconsistmainlyofselecting,ordering,summarisingandinterpretingwhatothershavesaid.So,itisimportanttolearnhowtoreferenceproperly—thatis,howtospecifyclearlyandpreciselywhatyourdebtsareandhowtoacknowledge
5、them.Thenyourowncontributioncanbeclearlyidentifiedandappreciated.CommonFormsofPlagiarism*•Downloadinganassignmentfromanonlinesourceandsubmittingitasyourownwork.•Buying,stealingorborrowinganassignmentandsubmittingitasyourownwork.•Copying,cuttingandpastingtextfromanelec
6、tronicsourceandsubmittingitasyourownwork.•Usingthewordsofsomeoneelseandpresentingthemasyourown.Copyingasectionofabookoranarticleandsubmittingitasyourownwork(thatis,withoutacknowledgement)isplagiarism.•UsingsignificantideasfromsomeoneelseandpresentingthemasyourownPutti
7、ngsomeoneelse’sideasintoyourownwordsandnotacknowledgingthesourceoftheideasisplagiarism.•CopyingthewrittenexpressionsofsomeoneelsewithoutproperacknowledgmentQuotingfromasource‘wordforword’,withoutusingquotationmarksisplagiarism.Liftingsentencesorparagraphsfromsomeoneel
8、se,evenwithproperacknowledgment,givestheimpressionthattheideaorinformationcomesfromthesourcecited,butthatthephrasing,thechoi
