REPORTING AND THESIS WRITING
RESEARCH PLAGIARISM AND THESAURUS
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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summarize the text in your own words and cite it
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Use only the idea without citing it
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Put quotation marks around the text and cite it
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Change a few words to make it your own and cite it
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Detailed explanation-1: -Paraphrasing is plagiarism if your text is too close to the original wording (even if you cite the source). If you directly copy a sentence or phrase, you should quote it instead. Paraphrasing is not plagiarism if you put the author’s ideas completely in your own words and properly cite the source.
Detailed explanation-2: -Always use in-text citations when you paraphrase or summarize, to let the reader know that the information comes from another source.
Detailed explanation-3: -Writing someone else’s text in your own words is otherwise known as paraphrasing and is an essential skill as it prevents you from plagiarising the original author’s work. Simply put, paraphrasing means that when sharing someone else’s ideas and information, you do so using your own words.