Academic and Community Support Resources at Walden U. and the Academic Skills Center are both useful for providing an understanding of plagiarism and how to properly cite source material in a paper. Plagiarism.org is also helpful and is easily acces Continue Reading...
avoiding plagiarism, and integrating source material into the body of the paper (Hacker, 106). Each main challenge involves utilizing many steps, which combine to make a research paper a descriptive analysis of a writer's thesis. The steps involved Continue Reading...
Avoiding Plagiarism As an educational problem, plagiarism most likely dates back to the beginning. Plagiarism involves the failure to attribute one's sources for research. At best, this behavior indicates careless research. At its worst, plagiarism Continue Reading...
Avoiding Plagiarism and Self-Plagiarism in Academic Writing Plagiarism can be defined as "copying another's work or borrowing someone else's original ideas" without properly citing or crediting the source from which the information was sourced (Wha Continue Reading...
Features of the APA Style: Avoiding Plagiarism In academia, it is often said that professors and graduate students must publish or perish—in other words, writing published academic articles are very important for building an academic reputation Continue Reading...
Original research comes with the need to properly synthesize and paraphrase. There is often the need to present information, but in a way, that shows the reader the researcher understood the information collected. This means putting into ones own wor Continue Reading...
daunting issues in academia is and has always been plagiarism. The age of technology, especially with the introduction of the Internet has made a classic issue like plagiarism even more easily accomplished both by those who have full the intent to p Continue Reading...
Citing Quotes without Acknowledging them as Quotes This form of plagiarism consists of citing the material as the ideas of another but neglecting to indicate that the cited material is actually quoted verbatim (iParadigm, 2010). A perfect example Continue Reading...
Foster, R.L. "Avoiding unintentional plagiarism." Journal Specialists Pediatric Nursing, Vol. 12, No. 1 (2007): 1 -- 2. Plagiarism is an issue throughout modern academia as well as in all realms of professional writing. Generally, plagiarism refers Continue Reading...
Avoiding Plagiarism Often, writers may not properly cite original sources wherefrom they obtained ideas or phrases for a paper. Plagiarism denotes a case of an author portraying the intellectual property of another as one's own, original work. Ther Continue Reading...
copying the ideas of the other writers in your works without acknowledging the sources. In other words, plagiarism is the act of taking the written works of others writers with the intention of transferring the contents as your own works without cit Continue Reading...
Affirmative Action Planning Affirmative Action Through its reference to affirmative action, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ushered in a remedy for disadvantage and discrimination that was intended to reach into the hallowed halls of higher education, Continue Reading...
Persaud might have been under such duress as to plagiarize because the school and his professors placed an insurmountable amount pressure on him. Plagiarism, Persaud probably thought, was the only way to succeed and accomplish his dreams. Yet until Continue Reading...
Wording Instructions Unless otherwise stated, answer in complete sentences, and be sure to use correct English spelling and grammar. Sources must be cited in APA format. Your response should be a maximum of two (2) pages in length; refer to the "A Continue Reading...
prevent plagiarism were not mentioned? How can you utilize the university's plagiarism and citation resources moving forward to uphold academic integrity? The most helpful resources that could help prevent plagiarism that were not mentioned might b Continue Reading...
Online Sources Using the Online Environment The availability of online information has made a tremendous difference in many fields of endeavor including daily interactions. Many journals now have articles that are 'online first' before print; othe Continue Reading...
Writing and Reflection Part I My paraphrasing strategy is to focus on putting the main idea of the author into my own words while still giving credit to the author from whom the idea comes. In other words, I will read what an author has written, summ Continue Reading...
The MLA style offers a consistent method for students and scholars within a discipline to cite their sources and make their citation method comprehensible to everyone reading their works. It allows the reader to easily find what part of the source t Continue Reading...
Lessons Learned - Plagiarism, Proper Citations, Paraphrasing A Masters Degree in Information Systems builds on the student's former education, gives the student new, specific tools for using, understanding and building hardware and software, and pre Continue Reading...
students, especially those in colleges and universities often come across the term "plagiarism" and the need to be careful of not plagiarizing is often stressed. Plagiarism is an act of stealing or copying something that is not actually yours and no Continue Reading...
Honest Work in College Basic Information From the Book Preparing a Citation. When a source has provided data, theory, or authoritative opinion, a citation must be provided. In every case, when the concept or content is not original though, it is i Continue Reading...
Students are encouraged by the staff to find their own goals for leaning, and this keeps them intensely motivated until the time when they complete the courses that they have undertaken to study. (Stephanie De Pinto, Axia Instructor) References Ax Continue Reading...
Life Scenario -- Decision to Divorce Lot of Life Scenario Setting the Scene Dear Maria, Because you and I have always been so close, I wanted to let you know about an impending event in our family's lives. Because of our past conversations, you Continue Reading...
There are three types of goals to focus one: short-term, medium-term, and long-term goals. In a study environment, short-term goals would refer to attending classes, handing in assignments and studying for tests and other assessments. The study sch Continue Reading...
Academic writing also requires a special set of terminology. Even when writing for the political arena, terminology is important and effective in good writing. 14. I will probably be inclined to write in academically. My strategy will be to read as Continue Reading...
Office Depot is a retailer of office supplies, operating in 53 countries around the world, but with a primary focus on the American market. The company is relatively young, having been founded in 1986 in Fort Lauderdale (OfficeDepot.com, 2011). The c Continue Reading...
" -- San Luis Obispo professor, as reported in Net Learning. Who wants to sit around looking for websites trying to find out if a paper is plagiarized or not... pretty soon you're a private investigator." -- a Stanford University professor, from an Continue Reading...
One of the approaches being used by educators to detect instances of plagiarism is to simply type (or copy and paste) suspect phrases into a Web browser such as Google and see what matches result. Some institutions and/or individual teachers are al Continue Reading...
It can therefore be concluded that academic integrity and ethical conduct are expected of every learner in all academic procedures. The academic principle represents the honesty in coursework, as well as ethical conduct in clinical, lab, research a Continue Reading...
brazenly 'sampled' from a book, the dictionary, and 'remixed' into a news story," writes Julian Sanchez in an annoyed response to court rulings on sampling in the music industry. His phrasing, however, perfectly encapsulates the real problems in def Continue Reading...
What is Plagiarism? Plagiarism is not just the act of copying someone else’s words and passing them off as your own. It is also the act of taking someone else’s ideas and taking claim or credit for them. Plagiarism can take various forms, Continue Reading...
If this were to happen, legitimate students who use material honestly and properly cite all sources will be losing out on untold amounts of useful information. There are several ways which would prevent plagiarism from getting out of and any furthe Continue Reading...
All forms of communications, whether e-mail, discussion posts, response posts, or any other form, should be written in a scholarly manner. This includes being written with clear understanding, no grammar or punctuation errors, and free from plagiar Continue Reading...
Conselling Master Questionnaire Describe the Boolean Approach (Hauser, 2009 p. 18) In order to use counseling databases to search for information, it is important to develop appropriate search practices. The terms one types when searching will most Continue Reading...
Expression of Ideas and Information and Structuring Written Communications Containing a Thesis and Argument The most important part of academic writing is to make sure that the audience understands what is being communicated and there are some solid Continue Reading...
Student accounts will be located behind a proxy server that is part of the university network. It is expected that the websites will be reasonably safe, but there is never a 100% guarantee. Therefore, it is highly suggested that students refrain fro Continue Reading...
accurately reviewing all the relevant information from an article or research paper in one's own word without adding elaboration comments. Typically, paraphrasing is important when identifying that information from a specific source can assist in co Continue Reading...
Week 1 1. Although I was familiar with the main ideas and technical vocabulary we encountered in this week's readings on learning acquisition and development in cognitive psychology, there are a few terms that are worth exploring in more d Continue Reading...
Accepting Client Assignments Outstanding client service begins with a full understanding of the client organization, its business needs and the position to be filled. An AESC member should: Accept only those assignments that a member is qualified Continue Reading...
