How to Avoid Plagiarism in Your Writing Projects
23 November 2021 2021-11-24 12:16How to Avoid Plagiarism in Your Writing Projects
Peter Alkema Avoiding plagiarism is a very important part of your degree competition. Unless you want to get a black mark on your academic record, you need to take it seriously. It may also prevent you to get the degree for your college and other institutes as well.
In my course, Learn Academic Referencing with EndNote: Tips From My Ph.D., I have talked about the issue in detail. Here, I will try to share some basics to help you out. If you want to learn the plagiarism issue in detail, you can get the course.
List All Your Sources
Keep track of all the sources you consulted and list them somewhere. Manage your sources and make sure you list all the sources at the end of your writing.
Always Quote While Using Text Directly From the Source
You have to put the quotation marks whenever you copy-paste some text. Make sure that you are not quoting too much as your supervisor is looking for your input. If you don’t want to use quotations, you have to rephrase and add your thoughts as well.
I repeat that you should reduce quotes as much as possible and try to provide your thoughts, your views on the topic.
Use Plagiarism Checker
Thirdly, you need to use a quality plagiarism checker. There are chances that you may use someone else’s work in your writing unintentionally. To minimize the risk, you should always check your work through a plagiarism checker.
Most of the universities accept writings with less than five percent plagiarism.
Things You Will Learn in the Course
- How the referencing system organises the world’s knowledge and why you need to understand it
- Different referencing styles and how to set them up in EndNote so that you can quickly switch between them
- How to use the star rating system in EndNote to dramatically cut down the time you need to organise references
- Why students find referencing frustrating and how to become more efficient so that it doesn’t affect your writing progress
- How to “cite as you write” using the EndNote plugin in Microsoft Word without breaking your writing flow
- How my PhD referencing worked in my final report and how you can set up your own referencing
- Introduction to referencing with LaTex and how to efficiently import references from EndNote
- How to quickly get citations from Google Scholar and use them to create references in EndNote
- How the academic referencing system uniquely identifies any published document
- How EndNote and Microsoft Word work together to produce a correctly styled reference list and citations
- How you should get over a blocker in your degree if you are struggling with referencing
- The APA, MLM, Chicago and Harvard referencing styles and the reasons for how the engineering and humanities reference styles differ
- The EndNote workspace, preview panes, reference information management, the style manager and the most important menu functions
- Main features of the EndNote plugin in Microsoft Word, how it works and how to use it effectively
