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The Controversy Of Paraphrasing And Plagiarism Of Words

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Plagiarism refers to the act of appropriation of another person’s ideas, processes, results, or words without giving appropriate credit. Most academic researchers reach a consensus that plagiarism is a serious breach of publication ethics. Plagiarism has different forms but can be categorized into two general distinct categories – plagiarism of ideas and plagiarism of text (verbatim). No doubt, plagiarism of ideas is a blatant act of misconduct. Plagiarism of text and recycling of words are also a serious fault in humanities and literature where the essence of work and novelty are wordings and eloquence of the text .But, what about science where the essence of the work is the originality of the scientific content no matter how eloquent it …show more content…

Students’ inappropriate use of source text has been the focus of discussion (Currie, 1998; Flower dew & Li, 2007a; John & Mayes, 1990; Polio & Shi, 2012). Through some discussion, student plagiarism is associated offensive academic convention (Leask, 2006; Pecorari, 2001; Yamada, 2003). It is essential to know what is paraphrasing and how to avoid plagiarism. Paraphrasing is an important skill in summarizing and translating and disciplinary differences in citation practices (Shi, 2012 ;). According to Shi (2012), an important process of ingeminate of the original text is paraphrasing. Further, she categorized paraphrasing into some aspects such as: a) Paraphrasing and inferential thinking, b) Good versus bad paraphrasing, c) Paraphrasing as an important skill in summarizing and translating, d) Disciplinary differences in citation …show more content…

How to write without plagiarism is just writing some general words which are related to the topic and exist in the original text (Keck, 2006) and defines words substitution, deletion or rearrangement of sentence structure from the source text. So, a trivial paraphrase or even patch writing bases on deleting the borrowing string(s) of words or adding some additional words or even replacing words with synonyms (Roig, 1999) (couldn’t find a verb here). Howard (1995) said patch writing is the writing of initiate writers who are not familiar enough with the topic and content of paraphrasing. (Yamada as cited in Shi2003) noted about good paraphrasing based on inferential thinking, making conclusion based on statements or premises and similarities between the two domains. With these characteristics of paraphrasing, it is possible to distinguish novice from expert

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