How to Recognize Plagiarism
Word-for-word
Word-for-word plagiarism is committed when a writer takes a sequence of 7 or more words from another source, but fails to identify the quoted passage, fails to provide the full in-text citation crediting the author(s), and fails to provide the bibliographic reference.
Read the example carefully
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Constructivists do not hold views entirely opposed to those of the cognitivists. The position of constructivists extends beyond the beliefs of the cognitivist.
Reference:
Heinich, R., Molenda, M., Russell, J. D., & Smaldino, S. E. (1999). Instructional media and technologies for learning. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
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Constructivists do not hold views entirely opposed to those of the cognitivists. The position of constructivists "... extends beyond the beliefs of the cognitivist" (Heinich, Molenda, Russell, & Smaldino, 1999, p. 17).
Reference:
Heinich, R., Molenda, M., Russell, J. D., & Smaldino, S. E. (1999). Instructional media and technologies for learning. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
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Explanation: This version is word-for-word plagiarism. The student included a portion of the original author's work in a sentence without using quotation marks.No citation points to author or to thereference provided. No credit was given to the original author in the text of the paper, and quotation marks were not used. So a reader does not know these are someone else's words, nor the source where these words can be found--especially if there is more than one reference in the bibliograpphy.
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Explanation: Quotation marks are used to indicate that this passage is a word-for-word quote from the original document. Here thefull in-text citation follows the quote and includes the locator. Of course, the full reference is also provided. A reader can find exactly where the words came from. Just find the book in the biblography that is referred to, and look on page 17.
We are using APA style here. References are provided at the end of a paper in APA style
In other styles, the bibliographic reference might be put in a footnote on the page where the citation occurs. In any case, the reference should provide sufficient information for a reader to find the original source, e.g., in a library.
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| Original Source Material: Constructivism is a movement that extends beyond the beliefs of the cognitivist. It considers the engagement of students in meaningful experiences as the essence of learning. The shift is from passive transfer of information to active problem solving. Constructivists emphasize that learners create their own interpretations of the world of information. https://www.indiana.edu/~istd/example2word.html | Source: Heinich, R., Molenda, M., Russell, J. D., & Smaldino, S. E. (1999). Instructional media and technologies for learning. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall. |
Plagarism, the act of taking credit for somebody else's work or intellectual property. We are all very familiar with it, but at some point of our lives we are guilty of commiting it whether consciously or unconsciously.
The most common people to be guilty with plagarism are the students, probably because for the simple reason that they have a gigantic work load and they are subjected to time pressure and mental drain, so the seemingly natural thing to do is to resort to plagarism. But what they fail to realize is that they are not just fooling their teachers or peers, but more than that they are doing a great diservice to themselves because they are depriving themselves to grow as a thinking human being.
The most common people to be guilty with plagarism are the students, probably because for the simple reason that they have a gigantic work load and they are subjected to time pressure and mental drain, so the seemingly natural thing to do is to resort to plagarism. But what they fail to realize is that they are not just fooling their teachers or peers, but more than that they are doing a great diservice to themselves because they are depriving themselves to grow as a thinking human being.
It's not just the students who are guilty of plagarism, anyone could sometimes commit it without meaning to.
There is nothing wrong with using reference books and journal or other sources of information as long as you cite them. Sometimes we read something from a book or a journal perhaps and then when we write a paper related to it we tend to paraphrase the idea but we then fail to cite the source. Another thing is we sometimes tend to overlook citations. Sometimes when we already mentioned the source in the references we tend to think that there is no more need for a citation or vice versa, but that is not the case. We must keep in mind that every citation should be present in the references and every reference should have a corresponding citation.
The best thing to do to avoid plagarism is to make sure to give credit where cridet is do, be honest with ourselves, and be careful in citing and writing references. If we are able to do this then we are actually transforming ourselves into a responsible and reliable writer and researcher.
There is nothing wrong with using reference books and journal or other sources of information as long as you cite them. Sometimes we read something from a book or a journal perhaps and then when we write a paper related to it we tend to paraphrase the idea but we then fail to cite the source. Another thing is we sometimes tend to overlook citations. Sometimes when we already mentioned the source in the references we tend to think that there is no more need for a citation or vice versa, but that is not the case. We must keep in mind that every citation should be present in the references and every reference should have a corresponding citation.
The best thing to do to avoid plagarism is to make sure to give credit where cridet is do, be honest with ourselves, and be careful in citing and writing references. If we are able to do this then we are actually transforming ourselves into a responsible and reliable writer and researcher.
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