CONTEST ENDPLAGIARISM | The Right Way to Avoid Plagiarism

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The plagiarism currently has become a frightening things in almost all lines of life. In the past, plagiarism was more common in academic institution, but today it has penetrated to a more wider scope.

The easiness of how to accessing the information with today's technological devices is one of the main factors for the plagiarism virus to develop like a ton of bricks and difficult to prevented. Just by opening a search engine, everyone can easily find the information they need.

For perpetrators of plagiarism, the information that obtained is then copied and used as a work, either in its entirety, or in several sentences (if it is written), without including a clear source.

Although there is still debated about the limits for someone who is considered plagiarizing, but in general in an academic context, if someone quotes a statement without clearly mentioning the source of the quote, then he is considered to have committed plagiarism. Whether it's a quote from a book, website, social media or someone's statement that delivered directly.

The Source plagiarism is the most common thing in academic activities and social media. Whether that is done by quoting word for word, or in its entirety. In this case, as a good writer he is a must to get included the source of the quote that taken, even though it is the result of his own work.

Paraphrasing the Best Way to Avoid Plagiarism

The Lack of understanding of writing techniques and rules that often makes someone fall into the circle of plagiarism. In fact, it is very difficult to maintain consistency in writing based on our own natural ideas and original thoughts. Sometimes we need a variety of reading sources to get a lot of our insight about the topic we are writing about.

The concepts that we find from the reading source are then interpreted again in the same language and in a different way, without changing the actual meaning. This method is called paraphrasing. In linguistics and writing techniques, paraphrasing is usually used instead of quoting.

Even though it seems easy, it takes greater effort for a writer to really understand the meaning of a concept, by reading it over and over again.

For people who are writing a lot, this is just like a piece of cake. However, for a beginner, there will be confusion in doing to do the paraphrasing process, especially in sort out the right words and sentences, so that they are completely different.

Example of paraphrasing

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To make easy the paraphrasing process for beginners, there are currently several applications that can be used, such as Magnifier, Spinner, Paraphrasing Tool, Check-Plagiarism and Prepostseo.

However, the paraphrases that produced by this application are sometimes not entirely correct, there are many ambiguous words that need to be reworked by the author.

That's all for this post, hopefully it will help you all out in producing quality and original posts. Say no to plagiarism..!!

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