Writing From Sources By Randall Mcclure

When writing any kind of paper or essay, it is essential that you give Plagiarism is a serious credit to the sources that you use; you do this by appropriately citing these sources in parenthetical citations within your paper and in a academic violation. reference list at the end of the paper. Failing to appropriately cite To avoid plagiarism, sources—either intentionally or unintentionally—is a serious academic violation called plagiarism. You should never represent someone else’s use this rule of thumb: work or ideas as your own. Any time you have taken a statement, a When in doubt, cite it. fact, or even an idea from another author, you must cite it. A good rule to go by is that if you are in doubt about

Students are assigned a variety of writing tasks throughout college. Whether it is an assignment in an orientation class or a term paper, students will need to include information from scholarly peers to help prove their point and make a credible stance. Thankfully students can include data from scholarly articles as long as they give proper credit to the author(s) from whom they received the information. Among the many issues that a student could potentially face is overusing resources. By not including enough of their thought on a subject, the work could become a collage of other writer’s work that a student merely puts his name on. To help avoid such an issue, one must remember that no more than 15% percent of a paper should include quotes

There are quite a few ways that you can plagiarize when writing. One example was given in the College Paper Case Study when Reggie was too lazy to read the material. So using the internet, he found an article on the book and copied it to use instead of his own work (p. 1). Plagiarism is something that should be important to us all, as it is not just about doing your own work, but about giving credit where credit is due, and being honest. If we can’t hold ourselves up to certain standards, how can we expect anyone to take our work seriously and rely on us when it matters the most? The University of the People Catalog under Code of Academic Integrity states, “As an academic community whose fundamental purpose is learning and the pursuit of knowledge, every individual at UoPeople is responsible for following accepted standards of academic integrity” (p. 138). I truly believe this should be a standard not just for UoPeople students, but for the entire world academic

In my opinion plagiarizing is a bad practice from any point of view. Beyond dishonesty is the fact that of a student who plagiarizes is not learning anything. In my case I’m a forgetful person, so I try to do my citations as I go. Besides to simplify the citation work I use “Citation Machine” this resource has a wide line of options and styles for this

I agree when writing a paper the source material in necessary to help develop a thesis statement. Kaplan’s policy on plagiarism is pretty clear and if we are uncertain on what is considered plagiarism or don’t know how to avoid plagiarism Kaplan has different video in their library to help guide use though any uncertainty.

The Short Assignment 3 – Plagiarism Synthesis does an excellent job of showcasing how effective using sources can be. After this assignment, I truly have a newly discovered appreciation for using sources in my writing! I had a lot of fun writing this paper, mainly because I felt very rebellious, but also because it turned out exactly how I envisioned it, which was quite satisfying. What better way to make a statement about plagiarism by plagiarizing your essay on the topic, as well as using sources that do the exact same thing? In order to successfully execute my creative vision, I had to make sure I really understood the two texts that I was pulling quotes from, and how they differed from each other. I then went through both Lethem’s and Shields’ essays and highlighted anything that stood out to me as important or interesting. As I began writing my paper, I tried to find gaps that I could fill with a highlighted fragment from one or both texts that incorporated well into the current thought I was trying to communicate. Reading through my paper now, it’s pretty difficult to separate the parts that came directly from me, and the ones that I acquired from the texts. While revising this paper, I didn’t mess with the wording very much, but I did edit areas for clarity, and added a few sentences explaining

Plagiarism, what is it and how to avoid it has been a major question on every students’ mind. Sure it is easy just to copy and paste and take all the credit for the work that another individual put in, but is it worth it? According to WPA, Writing Program Administrators, the definition of plagiarism as states, “plagiarism occurs when a writer deliberately uses someone else’s language, ideas, or other original (not common-knowledge) material without acknowledging its source.” Plagiarism has always concerned teachers and administrators, who want students’ work to repre¬sent their own efforts and to reflect the outcomes of their learning. However, with the advent of the Internet and easy access to almost limitless written material on

Now what is referencing? Referencing comes in various styles acknowledging the authors, title, type of text and the date of the source allowing the chance to use other information for assessments and or research. Following the reference style there shouldn’t be a problem when acknowledging another source. With this current technology era it is a lot tricker to come up with your ‘own’ ideas especially when you have access to the world at your fingertips called google. McMurtry (2001) discusses in her article her own experiences with plagiarism and acknowledging how tricky it is to come up with your own ideas as a English professor. Within this article ‘E-cheating: Combating a 21st century challenge’ the author acknowledges how important it is to allow time to create your assessment, leaving it to the last minute can create a struggle and stress levels increase and you resort to the internet for examples and before you know it you have copied another essay. Cobb (The lure of stealing ideas: It's an age-old offence, honed by students, academics and writers the world over. But why do we do it, 2002) agrees with McMurtry (2001) with how the internet has made it quite easy for plagiarism to occur with documenting students who have been recently caught plagiarising for an exam in Canada. In this article you have to

I believe plagiarism is a strong form of dishonesty and should not be accepted in any way. I also think it is unfair, because it is taking credit for an idea that is not yours. During my studies at UoPeople, I will ensure I make a list of websites, e-books or

It is important to credit a work that isn't yours. Everyone that exist on this earth deserves to be acknowledged. It is a pleasure to appraise the hard work and determination of the main source in any work of art. Plagiarism can also be seen in a writer's failure to cite a source correctly with the correct grammar punctuation. There are several forms of plagiarism that involve paraphrasing and reusing older material for future work. Those who do not plagiarize are joyful innovating new ideas. Whether purposive or irrelevant, failure to recognize that you have acquired another's data or language establishes theft. Originality is very important. You are safe in writing common knowledge information. Citing a source is essential when ideas that

I can avoid plagiarism and keep my integrity by doing my own work and using my own ideas on articles I read. I can also avoid plagiarism by remembering the consequences if I do commit plagiarism. Again I should always run my work threw the center for writing excellence. The college has no tolerance for plagiarism and I have to uphold to that.

“When you take stuff from one writer it’s plagiarism but when you take it from many writers it's research,” said by Wilson Mizner who was an American playwright. In the 21st century, plagiarism can be easily obtained with the technology we have today. Plagiarism is wrong and people don't realize that they are doing it. Many of our trusted new outlets plagiarize by not citing where they got their information from, students are unaware that live streaming and other uses of technology activities without proper documentation is considered a serious case of cheating, and how easy it is for people to plagiarize with the technology that has been giving to us.

Thirdly, according to ithenticate .com legal consequences of plagiarism can be dangerous with Copyright laws being unconditional. Material usage should be with citation and reference. An author has the right to prosecute a plagiarist and certain plagiarism can also be classified as a criminal offense, which can lead to a prison sentence. Writers, such as journalists or authors, are mostly liable to plagiarism and not with the exception of students. Those who write regularly must be watchful not to deviate from the norm (ithenticate.com web).Writers are well-aware of copyright laws and ways to avoid plagiarism. As a professional writer, to plagiarize is a severe ethical and maybe a legal

When it comes to plagiarism, no subject causes more confusion--or more temptation--than the Internet. Because it is so easy to copy information from the Web, many students do not understand the lines between plagiarism and the legitimate use of Internet materials. Nor are they necessarily aware of the need to cite sources when using such materials.

It should go without saying that most students hate having to find and cite sources for their writing, even though not citing your sources is conducting plagiarism. The same principles usually apply to me as well, except during this course I found it almost enjoyable to find sources for my Antigone essay. When I started looking for sources to use for my essay it sort of became like a scavenger hunt for me trying to find sources that could either support or oppose my ideas. It is important to have an opposition in papers as well so that your paper is not biased and has different perspectives to your ideas. I ended up finding four sources to use in my essay, two of which I found incredibly helpful. I was honestly quite proud of my works cited page when it came time to turn in my paper. Despite this, however, I was always confused on how to cite the book we used, I tried various formats but could never get it right. In addition to this I messed up with my in text citations quite a bit, but thanks to the process of trial and error I believe that I can cite in MLA format better now than at the beginning of this