How do Students Plagiarize?

How do Students Plagiarize?

I would like to make one thing clear in this post. I am not blaming any one directly or indirectly. Many does this without even realizing it's plagiarism. That's my humble opinion.

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Handing in an essay that you didn't write:

Some students hand in essays that they find on the Internet; others get someone else to write their essay for them. This is plagiarism because the words and ideas in those essays don't belong to the person submitting it.

Copying words or ideas from someone else's work, without giving credit:

Students often find relevant material in books and journals which might even exactly answer the essay question they are dealing with. They often plagiarise by copying words and/or ideas from those sources without giving credit to the author.

Failing to put a quote in quotation marks:

Some students forget that when you take material from books or journals and use it word-for-word, you must put it in quotation marks. It is not enough to copy a chunk of text and give a reference - you also need to use quotation marks to show that it is a direct quote.

Giving incorrect information about the source of a quotation:

It's tempting to quote the sources that a book or journal cites as their sources - that way, it looks like you've done a lot more reading than you really have. However, unless you've actually read the cited source yourself, this can be considered plagiarism.

Copying sentence structure, but changing words around, without giving credit:

It's easy enough to reword books and journals so that most of the words are different: however, if doing this, the student is still copying the structure of the original author's arguments, as well as their ideas, so are committing plagiarism.

Copying so many words or ideas from a source that it makes up the majority of your work, whether you give credit or not:

Some students copy chunks of material from books, journals and other sources. Although they give proper credit through references, most of their work is made up from other people's ideas, and the student’s own ideas on the topic never emerge. Work like this is certainly not original - this is a form of plagiarism.

We can't think of everything. At times, we have no option but to seek guidance from the books that's already written. 

So, how do you use it?

It's pretty simple. 

You take permission from the author of the original work stating the purpose. 

If it is academic books, please add proper quotes and give credit to the original author. These are somethings you can do and are often neglected by the people.