Preventing Plagiarism

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Hello guys , today I want to share about plagiarism. what is plagiarism ? I bet all students do plagiarism especially when doing some researches , laboratory reports and also assignments.

      Plagiarism is something that you do which not comes by your own ideas or even by copying the words you can commit plagiarism. Not only students are not allowed on doing plagiarism , lecturers , journalists and reporters are also not encouraged doing plagiarism. 

      
      Why we are not encouraged to do plagiarism ? Plagiarism is wrong because we steal or copying from other people works and pass them off as your own. Set in our minds that everything we do , the originality of our works must be in high level. Originality is the main factor which can determine our level of achievement either we are good or poor.

      We still can use books, website and other resources in order to complete our tasks but the used of the same words and ideas must be limited and the sentences must be different from the original resources you take. Mark, quote, and make a references list on the last page of our assignments to alert readers that we are quoting someone, and referring to other source in delivering our ideas. This will prevent readers from thinking that the ideas that had been delivered, is 100% ours, and for sure, this is a plagiarism.

      To avoid plagiarism, summarize the text, article, chapter, or whatever we are referring to. Summarize means we condense the ideas we refer to, to a concisely text using our own words. Elaborate all the author's idea into our own version. Do not ever copying word by word, sentence by sentence from the original author. Paraphrasing works best with summary. When talking about paraphrase, it means we rewrite, or retell the author's word with our own word, without any differences in meaning.

     
      Another way to avoid plagiarism is when we quoting someone. Quote means we fully take the author's words or statements, ONLY WITH the provided guidelines. Use the quotation mark ("...."),or proper words such as 'according to', when we are quoting someone. This will tell the readers that we are quoting someone, the words are from someone else, not us. We also must state the original source of the text that we are taking, ie the author's name. There are several formats that we should follow when we state the author's name, such as below :-
     
                  James(1986) state that "...."

                    According to James ......


      So as the conclusion, we must avoid plagiarism. By plagiarism it shows that we are not serious in completing our tasks or assignment by copy pasting other's hard works and simply claims its as our works. It also shows that we are too lazy to do some research and study about our assignments. By researching and present our works in the way above will help us to understand more and gain more knowledge, knowing that knowledge is the most important thing of all.