Chapter 32: Drafting a Paper with Documentation Research Summary
In this chapter you learn all about plagiarism. Plagiarism is using someone else’s words, ideas, or images as your own. There are many different ways you can plagiarize information, such as, submitted a paper you didn’t write yourself, pasting large chunks of a source into your paper, using summaries, paraphrases, or quotations without documentation, using exact phrasing of a source without quotation marks, and/ or mixing source material and your own ideas. Plagiarism is very serious due to academic dishonesty, theft from the academic community by taking an unfair advantage over your classmates or disrespecting your readers or other writers, and now and in the future you rob yourself of your education and integrity. In order to avoid plagiarism you need to resist temptation, play by the rules, take orderly, accurate notes, document all borrowed material – common knowledge being an exception, and working carefully with source material in your paper. Besides plagiarism you want to avoid using sources inaccurately, using source material out of context, overusing source material, relying heavily on one source failing to match in-text citations to bibliographic entries, and other academic offenses, such as double-dipping, falstaffing and copyright violations. You always want to organize and synthesize your findings by developing your ideas, and developing a structure for delivering research results. Then you can choose your drafting method by writing systematically and freely and then shape your first draft. Next you can integrate source material carefully by supporting your point with facts, statistics, and details, giving credibility with an expert’s supporting statement, and address counterarguments. You want to be sure you have smooth integration when using quotations too. And always be sure to effectively document your sources. You want to clearly identify where your source material begins and ends.
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