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Plagiarism-and-Paraphrasing

Module 11 focuses on plagiarism and paraphrasing, emphasizing the importance of responsible writing and proper citation to avoid plagiarism. It outlines four types of plagiarism: direct, self, mosaic, and accidental, and provides five strategies for effective paraphrasing. The module stresses careful reading, comprehension, and citation adherence as essential skills for novice researchers.

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Plagiarism-and-Paraphrasing

Module 11 focuses on plagiarism and paraphrasing, emphasizing the importance of responsible writing and proper citation to avoid plagiarism. It outlines four types of plagiarism: direct, self, mosaic, and accidental, and provides five strategies for effective paraphrasing. The module stresses careful reading, comprehension, and citation adherence as essential skills for novice researchers.

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Module 11: Plagiarism and Paraphrasing

Plagiarism

Responsible writing is necessary for writing academic text (Louw, 2017). As a novice
researcher, you need to take note that you ought to be responsible for the things that you write
in your research. One of the elements in writing responsibly is through proper citation both in-
text and reference citation. Aside from it, it is proper to list your sources on the information that
you are bringing out. Furthermore, you need to give proper credit to the author by acknowledging
his or her ideas. Nonetheless, you are avoiding plagiarism that is usually done when you quote
words or ideas created or first used by others. By doing it, your readers can track down the
sources that you utilized by citing them properly through footnotes, bibliography, or reference
list.

To properly cite your sources, you need to learn first the types of plagiarism. Plagiarism
is often committed when you use words and ideas without making credit to the person who
formulated it, making those words and ideas your own (Sulaiman, 2018).

Types of Plagiarism:

1. Direct Plagiarism. This type of plagiarism is committed when you copy word-for word
a section of others’ works without quotation marks (Roig, 2002).

2. Self-Plagiarism. This plagiarism is often committed when you mix your previous works
to come up with new article without proper citation and permission to the teacher you
previously submitted the work (Helgesson & Eriksson, 2014; Plagiarism.org, 2011).
3. Mosaic Plagiarism. It is committed when you take phrases from a source without using
quotation marks or citation; thus, you just find synonyms to the authors’ words while
keeping the same though as it is in the original (Roka, 2017).

4. Accidental Plagiarism. This is committed when unintentionally neglected to cite a


source or quoted by using similar words or sentence structure. This can be avoided
through responsible writing and running your work in an initial plagiarism test available in
internet (Learning Services Writing Center, 2018).

Proper Paraphrasing

Paraphrasing is the answer for us not to fall to any type of plagiarism (Wallwork, 2011).
However, this needs your attention to learn the competencies in achieving proper paraphrasing.
Careful reading, in-depth comprehension, and good writing are the skills you need to improve for
you to come up with good paraphrased sentences.

Five (5) Ways to Paraphrase:

1. Take time to read. Careful reading of the text enables you to grasp the meaning of the
sentence you are going to paraphrase. It is recommended to read it three times or even more.
This is to give you enough time to comprehend the meaning of what you are reading (University
of New England, 2020).

2. Take note of the key points. This is done through highlighting or listing the points or ideas
presented in the text that you are reading. Through this, you will see the things that the author
wanted to impart in his or her write ups. However, for you as a reader, those will also be the
bases on how you will explain the ideas that were presented (Chi & Nguyen, 2017).

3. Rewrite what you have read but use your own words. Rewriting what you have read
does not mean you will just copy it. Nevertheless, you are going to write what you have read
based from what you have understood from it. However, you need to be careful not to eliminate
the ideas of what you have paraphrased (Oshima, 1999).
4. Compare what you have written with the original text. Through this, you may be able
to see the similarities and difference between the original text and what you have paraphrased.
You need to remember that the paraphrased sentence or paragraph has structural difference
from the original even the choice of words. However, the thought presented in the original text
must not be different from the paraphrased text.

5. Make citation. There are so many citation styles available to you. But, always refer back to
what is prescribed to you by the organization or institution you are writing. If they prescribe you
to use a particular citation style, then you need to follow that standard. For example, many
colleges and universities in the Philippines use American Psychological Association (APA) 6th
edition citation style. On the other hand, in the Department of Education (DepEd), they use DepEd
Manual of Style and Chicago Manual of Style.

Let us paraphrase these:

(Original)

The occurrence of verbal bullying was a typical scenario in middle school. This kind of abuse was
commonly committed by students towards their peers.
(Paraphrase)

Verbal bullying is common in high school. Students usually commit this towards their classmates.

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