Avoid Plagiarism

Paraphrasing is the most common form of plagiarism; it happens when a student or researcher takes a theory or idea and then rephrases it with his keywords or changes the word order without citing the responsible of the resource.

Plagiarism occurs when a researcher or student borrows someone's concept or theory and then pastes it into his work (word for word) without citing it.
To bypass Verbatim Plagiarism and reduce quotations, utilize quotation signs and in-text citations.

This form of plagiarism occurs when a student/researcher uses ideas and theories and neglects to cite the resources or miscites them with good intentions; it also happens when they present a project or an idea that could be the same as someone else without knowledge.
Accidental plagiarism is like any plagiarism, which leads to the same penalties if necessary.

This case of plagiarism could happen in three ways:

1. Using a non-followed citation style by the research's field, section, or institution is considered a misusage of the relied source.
2. Source-based plagiarism is making a citation for something that doesn't exist in reality.
3. Create citations in an incomplete or a wrong form.

Those three ways of Source-based plagiarism misleads readers to the sources used in the research, which is considered a Source-based Plagiarism.

• When you submit a paper for a current class that you previously turned in as an assignment for a previous course, you are committing self-plagiarism.
• Using a large portion of a previous course paper as the foundation for a current assignment could result in self-plagiarism.

Fortunately, avoiding plagiarism is simple; although its punishment is not easy, the avoidance can be done by:

1- Cite the resource depending on: Whenever you use a specific resource to improve your research content, you must cite it by referring to the sentence information: [author, resource title, the publication (date, place, and publisher), the container page] that you had depended on whatever form of dependence you used [coping, quoting, paraphrasing, etc.]. (Learn More About Citing)

2- Use ("_"):

You have to use quotations " " when you use a specific sentence, words, or ideas of someone else to refer to that they are not yours, but for someone else.

Example:

"APA Style sets a standard that is realized in APA journals, books, and electronic database" (VandenBos, 2010, p.15).

3- Paraphrase the sentences and cite them:

It is not sufficient to replace a few words in the original text; you must completely rewrite it in your own words.

Change the sentence structure as much as possible by changing the terminology, but keep the original meaning intact because paraphrasing demonstrates that you understand the considered topic of your research.

Example:

Original: "We are so made, that we can only derive intense enjoyment from a contrast and only very little from a state of things" (Freud, Civilization and its discontents, 1929, chapter 2 p.13) 

Paraphrase: Freud (1929) highlighted that people become bored with sameness and suggested that it is a natural human desire to experience new things to experience happiness.