Writing – Source Citation and Plagiarism
- The issues with academic plagiarism have been present for centuries.
- Plagiarism distorts the traceability of ideas, arguments, and results within the academic literature and withholds valuable resources for discovering related material.
- Plagiarism is a term used to describe a practice involving taking and using another person’s work and claiming it, directly or indirectly, as your own.
- Plagiarism exists when someone describes another’s thoughts or wording. This means that plagiarism does not necessarily have to be about textual similarity. It could just as well be a question of structural similarity or, for that matter, conceptual similarity.
- Citations benefit anyone wanting to learn more about your ideas and their origins.
- A “citation” is how you tell your readers that specific material in your work came from another source.
- Citation styles are:
- Modern Language Association (MLA) [used by the Humanities]
- American Psychological Association (APA) [used by Education, Psychology, and Sciences]
- CMS—The Chicago Manual of Style [used by Business, History, and the Fine Arts]
- Plagiarism can be avoided by proper citation and referencing.
- Quoting: Directly quoting an author or reference through quotation marks.
- Paraphrasing: Rephrasing the ideas or text in your own words. Requires citation.
- Summarizing: Covering the points of the original text needs a source.
- Commenting: Quoting your own opinion about the actual ideas or text.
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