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Avoiding Plagiarism
Avoiding Plagiarism
Academic Purposes
With the multifarious information from
the internets, books, and other reading
resources that will help you finish your
academic papers, it is paramount that
will recall how you can avoid using
somebody’s words or ideas.
Quoting
- Copying the words of the author and
intertwining these words to your own
- Quoted statements, which are incorporated
at the beginning. Middle, or end part of
your paragraph are enclosed in quotation
marks and are identified with the author’s
family name, year of publication, and page
number of the journal or book where the
quoted statement was lifted from.
Following the American Psychological
Association (APA), 6th edition format,
quoted statements fewer than 40 words
are incorporated in the texts and are
enclosed in quotation marks while
statements composed of more than 40
words are set off as block quotations
and not enclosed in quotation marks.
Less than 40 words
- Defined as “the
practice of
claiming credits
for the words,
ideas, and
concepts of
PLAGIARISM
others” (American
Psychological
Association [APA],
2010, p170).
Paraphrasing – entails using your own words and own
style of writing to state another author’s idea. You
may use grammatical structure different from that of
the original text.