Avoiding Plagiarism Presentation

Overview

Teaching: 31 min
Exercises: 31 min
Questions
  • How to cite other researchers’ work wisely?

Objectives
  • Avoid plagiarism in your writing.


Avoiding Plagiarism Presentation

Feel free to use the silence in between to think about and write your own answers to the posted questions.

Presentation Summary (If you have no time to watch the video)

Paraphrase

Steps

  1. Ensure you understand the work you want to cite.
    • What key ideas can you highlight?
    • Use the key ideas to develop new vocabulary to use in your paraphrase.
  2. Just try it then evaluate your attempt. Use multiple techniques from the following rather than just a few.
  3. Add the citation.

PS: Ideally you would write the first draft without looking at the original!

Techniques

Useful Resources

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Key Points

  • References are required when using other people’s work.

  • Use your unique language but keep the same meaning from the original work.

  • Changes in sentence length/structure or information order are all good techniques to use.