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­­­­Plagiarism：

Claiming the others’ ideas and ways of expressing them as your own
Note: Intellectual property vs plagiarism – physiacal world vs words
Avoiding Plagiarism:
To word the ideas better/differently
                Synonyms
Other ways of expression:  paraphrase – same idea expressed differently
What if you substitute each W for its Synonym? Not good because you can’t always find a close match;
The structure MUST be changed!
                
            Structure your Ss differently
            Mention the author, all the reference details
            Citation machine
            Other people’s words: quoting, paraphrasing & summarising
            Length of Quotation: 
                                               a phrase:
a couple of lines;
When: “it aids your thought” – Maria Korotkikh
                Length of phrase or word combination 4 words or more            
                Paraphrases: expressing the ideas in a very close form to the original in your own words
                Summary: shortened version of a longer piece of writing containing its main ides
    Thesaurus: a dictionary of synonyms (antonyms): Roget’s Thesaurus                

     http://www.thesaurus.com/
Dear All,

Are you familiar with what constitutes plagiarism? Understanding  well what it is and learning the skills necessary to be able to wrire on your own are the skills absolutely essential for you to master to be successful academically So, we'll devote our lesson today to trying to understand the essence of plagiarism and doing a number of exercises to practise the skills of paraphrasing & summarising, which are essential for you to be able to express smb else's words in your own.

We'll start with a presentation which will help you understand better when you need to quote smth., paraphrase it or summarise it.


Then we'll get acquainted with the steps you need to make to be able to paraphrase something:

a) https://bit.ly/2r3Ilv8
b) More about steps to paraphrasing and summarising (A checklist): https://bit.ly/2DKzp5w

Here is a link to my Google Drive with many materials that can help us with further practising paraphrasing and summarising:


Below is a list of more exercises to help you master the skills of paraphrasing and summarising better:

Hope the discussion and more importantly the practice in paraphrasing and summarising will help you to write without plagiarising

Good luck!


It'd be great if you came up with some further questions for you to understand better what you should do and how to be able to write without plagiarising. 


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  1. Natalia EydelmanNovember 28, 2018 at 3:16 PM

    Hello, I'd like to share with you some materials to help us practise paraphrasing & summarising. They're on my Google drive, and here's a link to one of them to help you practise paraphrasing:

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwXmStgn1gBPbG82U1JIdG9hYUE/view?usp=drivesdk

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    1. Natalia EydelmanNovember 28, 2018 at 3:18 PM

      This is another one which actually should go first: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwXmStgn1gBPUHIyQzdRWDQ0V0U/view?usp=drivesdk

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    2. Natalia EydelmanNovember 28, 2018 at 3:19 PM

      And one more:

      https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwXmStgn1gBPQWp6enVqZDRqOTQ/view?usp=drivesdk

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