What are the rules to avoid plagiarism?

Question

Our teacher is giving anyone who plagiarized in a project an automatic zero. I need to know d actual rules to get a fair grade.
p.s. the project was 20 pages.

Answer 1

Very simple. Do the research, and put the information in your own words. Plagiarizing is when you copy someone else's work. It's also known as a copyright violation. So, for example, if you're researching on the Net, instead of highlighting, copy & pasting it into your Word document... read the information, learn something, and put it in your own words.

Technically speaking, if you change even several words, I don't suppose it's considered plagiarism anymore, but, of course, if Teacher recognizes that it's not your work, even if a couple words are different, she'll probably give you the 0 anyway, so you're better off to take advantage of the situation you're in, and learn something fantastic!

Answer 2

Make sure that you cite everything...if it isn't either your own opinions or your own analysis. Not only can works be plagiarized but also another person's ideas. If you take someone's idea and put it in your own words, you STILL have to to cite it. Use intext citations in your paper to cite throughout. Then just attach your bibliography.

Click this link for some more information about plagiarism. The tips on here are good and will help: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/589/03/

Also you can go to this link here and get help with citations:
http://www.citationmachine.net

Hope these sites help!

Answer 3

Plagiarism = A

Don't listen to the teacher! I always get As. Look what I do, I copy paste the information I need from a site then at the end of the project I give false source, I write the name of a site that talks about your topic but that you didn't use. Get it?

Answer 4

Do not plagiarise as I have heard from the news that software has been developed that recognised copied text from the internet, and will soon be available for schools and teachers. It will tell you the source of the cheating i.e the original document. So I would not get into bad habits now.

Answer 5

Claiming authorship or incorporating material from someone else's work is clearly plagiarism. You can add quotes if you remember to mention it's source.

Answer 6

Use MLS format. You should be able to search the web for MLS format.

Answer 7

Here is what I give my students:

ADVENTURES IN PLAGIARISM

The birth of engineering science during the first industrial revolution saw attempts to measure and quantify work, so as better to control and optimize it for maximum efficiency as defined by the owners of capital. [Original]

a) The birth of engineering science during the first industrial revolution saw attempts to measure and quantify work, so as better to control and optimize it for maximum efficiency as defined by the owners of capital. [Plagiarism, using material from a source without attribution.]

b) The birth of engineering science during the first industrial revolution saw attempts to measure and quantify work, so as better to control and optimize it for maximum efficiency as defined by the owners of capital.1 [Plagiarism, failure to acknowledge a direct quotation.]

c) The start of engineering science during the industrial revolution saw attempts to quantify and measure work, so as better to control and optimize it for maximum efficiency as defined by the owners of capital.1 [Plagiarism, as “b” with slight modifications of the original wording.]

d) During the industrial revolution capitalists sought to use quantification to improve their control over work. [Plagiarism, use of an idea from a source without acknowledgement.]

e) “The birth of engineering science during the first industrial revolution saw attempts to measure and quantify work, so as better to control and optimize it for maximum efficiency as defined by the owners of capital.”2 [Cheating, claiming to have used a different source from that actually used.]

f) “The birth of engineering science during the first industrial revolution saw attempts to measure and quantify work, so as better to control and optimize it for maximum efficiency as defined by the owners of capital.”1 [Correct use of direct quotation and acknowledgement.]

g) “The birth of engineering science during the … industrial revolution saw attempts to measure and quantify work … to [improve] it for maximum efficiency as defined by the owners of capital.”1 [Correct use of modified direct quotation and acknowledgement.]

h) During the industrial revolution capitalists sought to use quantification to improve their control over work.1 [Correct use of paraphrase with acknowledgement.]

1 James Hull, “Working With Figures: Industrial Measurement as Hegemonic Discourse,” Left History 9 (Fall/Winter 2003): 62.
2 Arnold Smith, The Industrial Revolution (Oxford: OUP, 2005), 14.