Question

A. What is plagiarism? (1 Marks) B. Why do you give credit to people who you quote in research or essays? (1 Marks) (3 Marks) C. Write down three ways that plagiarism can be avoided? i) D. How can essays, assignments and research be checked to ensure it is original? (1 Marks) E. Write four common types of plagiarism? (4 Marks) i) ii) iii) iv)

Answer 1

A) Plagiarism is practise of copying or taking someone's ides, research or work and passing them off as own. It is a process of representing the someone's else work as own to get the benefit.

B) Giving the credit to the people is one of the way to thank the people and also it helps to avoid plagiarizing their work. By giving credit you can show that you had not stolen their information or data.

C) To avoid the Plagiarism, You can do the following things:

• Always site or quote your sources, data and information.
• After completing the task. Always use the plagiarism checking tools to check the Plagiarism.
• Add references and giving credit can help to avoid the Plagiarism.

D) Always site your idea and information. while writing the assignment, essay or research paper. To ensure the Plagiarism. You can the various Plagiarism checking tool to check that the research or assignment is original or not.

E) Plagiarism are many types. Some of the common types of plagiarism are:

• Copying and pasting - Where you direct copy and paste the idea or research.

• Self Plagiarism - Representing your own previous work.

• Mosaic Plagiarism - Combining and collecting the information or data from different sources and represent it as your own without citation.

• Incorrect citation - Failing to give all the important and necessary information in the source citation.