Proper Citation to Avoid Plagiarism

What is Plagiarism? We can define defines plagiarism as using others’ ideas and words without clearly acknowledging the source of information

How to Prevent Plagiarism? There are three simple steps to avoid plagiarizing in our written work. First, accentuate the positive with change our attitude about using the citations. The basic idea is try to make sure that our paper has a point, main idea, or thesis that is on our own and that we organize the source material around that point to support our arguments, evidence what we have know, and the authority behind our knowledge. We need using citations not for making our paper looks sophisticated but to referred or relied n course material to develop our own ideas.

Second, with all information we have got we need to improve our note-taking skills. Once we have reconsidered using citations, we need to rethink our note-taking practices. Taking careful notes is simply the best way to avoid plagiarism and with it we also can refine our critical thinking skills. Third, locate the appropriate style manual. With so many details and so little time to do citations used in all the different university disciplines the citing our sources is a matter of three things: determining which style our instructors wants us to use; finding the appropriate style manual; copying the formula it gives for each type of source we use.

How to Detect Plagiarism? We can detect plagiarism if we found strange or discontinuity on the writing style of the author, changed the words used by the author into synonyms, completely paraphrased the ideas to which refereed, sentence made of own thoughts but contains reference to the authors ideas, and doesn’t mention the author name we cited.

How to do Proper Citation? There are four citation styles: APA, MLA, Chicago, and CSE/CBE. If we want to make proper citation we must put all direct quotes in quotation marks (actual spoken or written words), give credit whenever we use another person’s idea, opinion, or theory, any facts, statistics, graphs, drawings—any piece of information—that are not common knowledge, paraphrase of another person’s spoken or written words.