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Plagiarism

First Question

Define plagiarism?

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.

Second Question

How does bibliography help you avoid plagiarism?

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.

Third Question

What does cyber cheating mean?

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.

Fourth Question

What does citation mean?

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.

Fifth Question

What does “fraud” and “patch writing” mean?

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.

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Group 5

Mr. Maher

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Mrs. Mona

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