L07: Plagiarism and referencing

In this session, you will have a quick look at the worst academic crime you can commit, plagiarism, and referencing. We will investigate what plagiarism actually is and how to avoid it. We will also briefly analyze which kind of material needs to referenced.

Things we cover in this session

Plagiarism

How to avoid plagiarism

References

Things you need for this session

W07-1: Plagiarism

Things to take home from this session

At the end of this session, you should be able to

avoid plagiarism

identify material that needs to be referenced

Slides

Academic Writing: Plagiarism and Referencing

Hungry Minds

If you want to find out more about different style sheets, here you will find a list of the most common ones: Citation Styles.

Here is a plagiarism-checking tool that you could use: Plagiarism check (the trial is for free, after that, you have to pay).

Purdue Online Writing Lab offers a few pages on Avoiding Plagiarism, see here.

Paraphrasing exercise, see here.