L07: Plagiarism and referencing

In this session, you will have a quick look at the worst academic crime you can commit, plagiarism, and referencing. We will investigate what plagiarism actually is and how to avoid it. We will also briefly analyze which kind of material needs to referenced.

• Plagiarism
• How to avoid plagiarism
• References

• W07-1: Plagiarism

At the end of this session, you should be able to

• avoid plagiarism
• identify material that needs to be referenced

Academic Writing: Plagiarism and Referencing

• If you want to find out more about different style sheets, here you will find a list of the most common ones: Citation Styles.

• Here is a plagiarism-checking tool that you could use: Plagiarism check (the trial is for free, after that, you have to pay).

• Purdue Online Writing Lab offers a few pages on Avoiding Plagiarism, see here.

• Paraphrasing exercise, see here.