roman’s blog

So what is plagiarism? Plagiarism is using someone else’s ideas or work in your own work without giving credit to the original author (citing). It is considered stealing and has high consequences especially in professional settings and it doesn’t matter whether plagiarism is intentional or not. I am personally guilty of a specific type I of plagiarism I wasn’t aware of until now and that is failing to in text cite an author while paraphrasing his ideas. At least now I have clear strategies in avoiding probably all future accidents. The easiest way to avoid plagiarism is to simply put the idea in quotes followed by an in-text source citation which should also be found in correct form on the ‘works cited’ page. It is important to properly cite all sources on this page so if doubts or interests come up about your sources then they can be looked up. Easy strategies to avoid plagiarism are:

Cite everything in a works cited page.

In-text cite something even when idea’s are paraphrased.

If you doubt the common knowledge of a fact, cite it.