Chapter 7: Avoiding Plagiarism

   In chapter 7 it talks all about plagiarism and how to avoid it. The main check point in this chapter are the following:

First we need to understand what plagiarism means which the book defines as intellectually dishonesty. There are unintentional plagiarism. You are unintentionally plagiarizing f you don't use quotation marks, paraphrase something that is just like the original copy, don't CLEARLY distinguish the ideas from sources, and lastly forget to list the source you go the information from.There is also intentional plagiarism. Which you can do by taking bits and pieces of another source, creating fake sources, paraphrasing passages and quoting them as original, copy and pasting, and buying a paper. You can also plagiarize in groups which are debatable plagiarizing.

We also need to know the meaning of research ethics, an honest exchange of info, ideas, and arguments with readers and writers. The book also says we need to know the concept of common knowledge which is described as, information that is widely known or the kind of knowledge that people working in a particular field use on a regular basis.

We need to know how much information you can cite from a certain source and the steps to take so you do not plagiarize. The book says to ask yourself three questions: 1.What do you already know about the issue? 2. What don't you know? 3. What do you want to know?

There are times where you might be tempted to plagiarize, when this happens you need to figure out why you want to and go back to the three questions to help you avoid this. If you are accused of plagiarism you should go back over the areas of where you might have plagiarized and gather information that was used so you have proof the back yourself up.