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Plagiarism

Summary and Review Quiz

plag2To sum up:

  • Plagiarism is a serious issue and it is important to learn how and why to avoid it.
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  • Learning the skills of summarising, paraphrasing and quoting are essential ways to avoid plagiarism - they may take a little while to learn, but they are invaluable for college and the future.
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  • Always make sure you fully credit any sources you use in citations/footnotes and bibliographies - ask your subject teachers about their preferred uses and layouts.

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quizReview Quiz

Now that you have read through this course, complete the two review quizzes to check your learning and give feedback on this course:

Plagiarism Review Quiz - Part 1 Plagiarism Review Quiz - Part 2

 

 

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Other Resources:

Below is a list of useful sites to help expand your knowledge and skills on the subject of plagiarism. Don't forget, you can also speak to your subject teachers or visit the Study Centre, room 235, top floor of the ILC, if you need further help and advice with this.

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Plagiarism.org - a site dedicated to the subject

OWL Purdue Online Writing Lab - some useful resources and exercises

Avoiding Plagiarism - another site to help with this

Plagiarism Quiz from the University of Surrey

Top 10 Free Plagiarism Detection Tools -although this site is aimed at teachers, if you're worried that you may have accidentally plagiarised something from the internet, you could use one of the free tools to help you check.