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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To give credit to the people created it
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To copy another person’s work
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To use it as our own
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -To show your reader you’ve done proper research by listing sources you used to get your information. To be a responsible scholar by giving credit to other researchers and acknowledging their ideas. To avoid plagiarism by quoting words and ideas used by other authors.
Detailed explanation-2: -A citation identifies for the reader the original source for an idea, information, or image that is referred to in a work. In the body of a paper, the in-text citation acknowledges the source of information used. At the end of a paper, the citations are compiled on a References or Works Cited list.
Detailed explanation-3: -Citations are a way of giving credit when certain material in your work came from another source. It also gives your readers the information necessary to find that source again–it provides an important roadmap to your research process.