3. Plagiarism (say: play-juh-rih-zem)
is when you use someone else's
words or ideas and pass them off
as your own. It's not allowed in school, college, or
beyond, so it's a good idea to learn the proper way to
use resources, such as websites, books, and magazines.
5. The use of a comprehensive
bibliography is a key in avoiding
plagiarism. If you have a detailed
bibliography included in your work
and you cite places where you got the information
from, this protects you from being a plagiarist and
also it credits the original author. In almost all
academic writing, other sources are used to
generate ideas or to bolster arguments.
7. Cyber cheating (also known as online plagiarism)
is enabled by the copy and paste functions and
online document sharing websites. When you
browse the web
for a certain topic,
you may find documents you can read online. If
you copy it completely or partially and use it as
your own work, this is considered cyber cheating.
9. A citation is a reference to a
source. Technically, a citation is
an abbreviated alphanumeric
expression embedded in the
body of an intellectual work that denotes an entry in
the bibliographic references section of the work for
the purpose of acknowledging the relevance of the
works of others to the topic of discussion at the spot
where the citation appears.
11. When you turn a paper that
was written or partially written
by anyone else into something
that you consider your own
work, that is “fraud”. While
“patch writing” is taking several other texts that
were written by others, piecing these ideas or words
together into a single paper, and making that paper
a part of your own work.
