Editage Insights - Plagiarism

Nobody wants to fall in plagiarism intentionally and it mostly happen accidently when ideas, images, text, and other creative work are used but not cited in academic, professional and personal work. One should be very cautious about plagiarism as you can get suspended or expelled from school and get failing grades. If you are not in school and plagiarize someone else’s work for your profit, you can be sued for that offense.

Tips to avoid Accidental Plagiarism:
1. Focus on your own ideas and your paper.
2. Use others' ideas only as reference or to support your statements.
3. It’s better to use quotation marks when directly stating others' words.
4. Always include complete information of citation for each item you use in your paper.
5. It’s really good to take few minutes and write a short draft of your paper without any notes that will help you to think what’s exactly on your mind and prevent you depending upon your sources and references.

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