Remember: It is not easy, even for professional writers and professors, to always know what should be cited. If you are not sure, check with your own instructor. It is better to ask 20 questions about 20 sentences than to make one mistake! What is NOT common knowledge? All statistics, data, figures References to studies done by others References to specific facts the average reader would not know about unless s/he has done research Exercise 3 Common knowledge or not Work with a partner. Read these sentences taken from the first drafts of university research papers written by students. Discuss which ones you think: 1. are common knowledge, expressed in the student’s own words (and therefore are not plagiarized) 2. are written in the student’s own but contain uncredited ideas or information from another source (and therefore are plagiarized)
Remember: It is not easy, even for professional writers and professors, to always know what should be cited. If you are not sure, check with your own instructor. It is better to ask 20 questions about 20 sentences than to make one mistake! What is NOT common knowledge? All statistics, data, figures References to studies done by others References to specific facts the average reader would not know about unless s/he has done research Exercise 3 Common knowledge or not Work with a partner. Read these sentences taken from the first drafts of university research papers written by students. Discuss which ones you think: 1. are common knowledge, expressed in the student’s own words (and therefore are not plagiarized) 2. are written in the student’s own but contain uncredited ideas or information from another source (and therefore are plagiarized)
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