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COMM 101 - Effective Speaking - Beck
Plagiarism
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Avoiding Plagiarism
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How to Avoid Plagiarism (Part 1)
Are you plagiarizing?
A flowchart depicting a general guide to understanding written plagiarism.
Question: Are your own words being used?
Yes
Q: Is it your idea?
Yes Yay! You’re not plagiarizing!
No. You’re paraphrasing, and need to add a citation and bibliography.
No
Q: Are you using quotation marks or placing it in blockquote?
Yes? Yay! You’re not plagiarizing!
No? You’re plagiarizing! Go quote it! Once you are done be sure to add a citation and bibliography!
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Plagiarism
Paraphrasing from the Purdue OWL
Citations in a Speech
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