We all know how serious is to do plagiarism in an assignment
that we have had, we can get a zero in our homework grade and, in the worst of
the cases, we can fail the course. Along with the numerous ways to do
plagiarism there are also some tips that will prevent us to do plagiarism, some
of those strategies include: doing paraphrase, correct citation of sources, and
to do quotation when we use ideas that do not belong to us. The first strategy
to avoid plagiarism seems to be one of the more adequate for people who write a
lot of essays and have to get information from the web or some other authors.
Paraphrasing is when you take the idea of somebody and you explain it with your
own words but at the same time, you are not changing the original meaning. The citation
strategy is always required when we do research papers and sometimes essays, it
consists of using the APA format to show where these ideas come from and who
the original author was. Paraphrasing can be a little bit easier to do because
you do not need to specify all the details, and it also demonstrates that you
understand the idea of this author by repeating it but in your own word. The
last but not least is a quotation, as simple as put the quotes marks is to
avoid plagiarism, you have to use it when you use a phrase that the author said
in person or in a book. Now that you know how to avoid plagiarism, you ought to
don`t do it.
Thank you, Manuel, for your insight. Note that each time we're paraphrasing somebody else's ideas, we always have to cite (no matter what the writing situation). But indeed, these strategies will help us avoid plagiarism and its consequences.
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