If you wished to write an essay which used the ideas of a researcher who published a book, which of these would be the best course of action to avoid committing plagiarism?ResponsesA Summarize the author's ideas, and give credit where due.Summarize the author's ideas, and give credit where due.B Avoid discussing the author's ideas.Avoid discussing the author's ideas.C Quote the author directly, but don't tell where the quote came from.Quote the author directly, but don't tell where the quote came from.D Discuss the author's ideas, but phrase them differently while refraining from mentioning the author by name.
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If you wished to write an essay which used the ideas of a researcher who published a book, which of these would be the best course of action to avoid committing plagiarism?ResponsesA Summarize the author's ideas, and give credit where due.Summarize the author's ideas, and give credit where due.B Avoid discussing the author's ideas.Avoid discussing the author's ideas.C Quote the author directly, but don't tell where the quote came from.Quote the author directly, but don't tell where the quote came from.D Discuss the author's ideas, but phrase them differently while refraining from mentioning the author by name.
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The best course of action to avoid committing plagiarism when using the ideas of a researcher who published a book would be option A: Summarize the author's ideas, and give credit where due. This involves paraphrasing the author's ideas in your own words and then citing the source to acknowledge the original author. This way, you are not stealing the author's work but using it as a reference to support your own ideas.
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Plagiarism is using someone else’s words or ideas in your academic work without giving credit to the original author.Which of the following would NOT be considered plagiarism?Group of answer choicesUsing an image, video, or music without permission and/or proper attribution or citation.Putting someone else’s idea into your own words and telling your reader where you got the information using a citation.Summarizing the ideas, statements of fact, or conclusions made by another without citing the source.Word-for-word copying (copying/pasting) of work written by someone else without quotation marks and/or a citation.Close or extended paraphrasing of another person’s work without acknowledging the source. In other words, you’ve taken someone else’s ideas and changed a few words here and there, but haven’t acknowledged where you got the idea from
You had a brilliant brainwave about the topic you are writing an essay about. But when reading an article about the topic, after you have gone on to do some research, you see that the same idea is mentioned. It was your own idea too, before you read the article, so do you need to reference it?Question 10Select one:a.Yes. Great minds think alike, but even if you did think of the idea on your own you still need to reference the published source. Otherwise, readers will accuse you of plagiarism. You can use this source to support your argument, and you can try to show how your idea differs from the other author's, but you still have to cite the other source.b.No. If you come up with an idea on your own, you don't have to cite the other source.
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