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Five Tips for Avoiding Plagiarism |
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First,
use your own ideas. It should be your paper and your ideas that should
be the focus. |
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Use the ideas
of others sparingly, and only
to support or reinforce your own argument. |
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Use quotation marks when directly stating another person's words. |
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When taking notes
or copying information from online databases, websites, magazines,
journals, books, etc., also jot down a complete citation for each item you use as a
source of information. |
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A
good strategy is to take 30 minutes and write a short draft of your
paper without using any notes. As a drafting exercise, it will help you think through what
you want to say and help prevent your being too dependent upon your
sources. |
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