Plagiarism & Referencing

Plagiarism

plagiarismchecker (2012)

According to Indiana university (2004), plagiarism is using the others ideas and words without thanking the source of information. In the universities students use other people's view for reading and then some write the same thing without acknowledging to the particular source (Science.widener, 1995).As a result, this is very important that students give credit where it is due. This means the unacceptable to copy something out of a book or other source (Indiana university , 2004).


According to Plagiarism (2012), the following are clues of plagiarism

• turning someone else's work as your own work
• copying words/ideas from someone else without acknowledging
• failing to put a quotation marks
• giving incorrect information about the source of a quotation
• changing some words here and there but copying the sentence without thanking

Bestessaytips (2012)

Even the words/ideas are not yours, use the different methods that the reader can tell what is yours, and what is someone else as follows (Science.widener, 1995).
Quotations should be:

•         used sparingly - and only if the words really are worth quoting
•         brief - a few words or, at most, a few lines.

In writing a quotation you should:

•        copy words and punctuation exactly
•        use three dots ( ... ) to indicate omitted words
•        put 'quotation marks' around the words you quote (thus: 'Stunning,' wrote the artist.)
•        say exactly where the quotation comes from

Lib.uconn (2012)

Types of Plagiarism

There are plenty of plagiarisms types but here author has mentioned few of them.

• The Ghost Writer - The writer turns the someone else work as the owners work (Plagiarism, 2012).

• The Labor of Laziness - Writer takes time to paraphrase the paragraph which is being taken by the other sources and make it as a combination of the other sources, where as devoting the same amount of time on the own work (Plagiarism, 2012).

• The Self-Stealer - Writer gets the senior students work of the same university and read and use the same method to perform the own work (Plagiarism, 2012). This is specially happening in the universities most of the time.

• The Forgotten Footnote - Writer mentions author's name for a source, but neglects to include the information taken by that and put other reference source content (Plagiarism, 2012).

• The Too-Perfect Paraphrase - Writer properly cites a source, but neglects to put in quotation marks text that has been copied word-for-word, or close to it ( Gervaseprograms.georgetown, 2012). 

Tips to avoid plagiarism

• Be aware of the reasons plagiarism occurs
• Sometimes people have the excuses about the misunderstandings of plagiarism. Therefore makesure that you have noted down exactly where you read the information. 
• Work of the students for doing the assignment can be increased so that the students can get the sufficient time to make their assignments because self-generated work is more valuable than the occupied work
• Write all your notes in your own words

To get more information please refer the following link: 
http://www.plagiarism.org/plag_article_educational_tips_on_plagiarism_prevention.html

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Reference
As students its needed to state the source from where the information is taken from in order to complete the task (1.columbia,2012). 
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When should give reference?

If simply say that when you refer to the someone else source need to give reference there.

– as the source of a particular theory, argument or viewpoint

– for specific information, such as statistics, examples, or case studies

– for direct quotations 

– for texts and electronic information which you paraphrase rather than quote.

Referencedeskpress (2006)

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What information is included in a reference?
•the name and initials of the author(s)

•   the title, in full

•   the year of publication

•   for journal articles, the name of the journal and the number of the volume

•   the edition, if relevant

•   the location of the publisher

•   the name of the publisher

•   relevant page numbers

•   for electronic materials, the webpage address.

Citation
What is Citation?
According to Aub (2012), citation is the  way you shows the readers that you have used some other material in your work. 

Accordning to Library.uq (2011), as a example (Berkman 1994) is a citation and this can be referred in the reference list as Berkman, RI (1994), "Find It fast: how to uncover expert information on any subject", HarperPerennial, New York


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Harvard Referencing  

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Rules of Citation

 1.     If author’s name occurs naturally in the sentence the year is given in parentheses.

2.   If name does not occur naturally in the sentence, both name and year are given in parentheses.

3.   When an author has published more than one cited document in the same year, these are distinguished by adding lower case letters (a,b,c, etc.) after the year and within the parentheses.

4. If there are two authors the surnames of both should be given.

5. If there are more than two authors the surname of the first author only should be given and put et al.

6. If the work is anonymous then “Anon” should be used.

7. If it is a reference to a newspaper article with no author place with “Anon”.