How can you avoid plagiarism?
Plagiarism is the intentional use of someone else’s ideas, words, concepts in your work/assignments. It is considered as a serious misconduct at all the Universities and should be avoided at all times.
Central Queensland University (CQU) also has a policy on plagiarism and students are strongly
encouraged to familiarise themself with it.
Committing plagiarism carries very serious penalties for the students, including expulsion from a
university.
Regrettably, students have been known to commit offences of plagiarism by not understanding what acceptable paraphrasing, summarising or quoting techniques are.
The best way to avoid being accused of plagiarism is to acknowledge the resources upon which
you have based your ideas.
Note: Expulsion, for some international students, may mean having to return to their
own country because this forfeits their student visa.
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samanthaJ 11:13 am on January 28, 2015 Permalink |
I totally agree! one of my friends got expelled from a university in Canada and had to return back to Saudi Arabia because of visa issues. The university however had issued him 3 warnings before taking such a serious step.
I wonder why students find it so difficult to avoid plagiarism. Plagiarism does not necessarily discourage you from using facts and conclusions drawn by others, but merely requires you to interpret those facts in the particular context you are working and giving credit to the author whose work you have utilized. It is really beyond my understanding why students do not wish to give credit to someone who has worked hard in finding useful results.