{"id":722,"date":"2017-03-17T13:19:02","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T00:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/?p=722"},"modified":"2017-03-17T13:19:02","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T00:19:02","slug":"ways-to-avoid-plagiarism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/2017\/03\/17\/ways-to-avoid-plagiarism\/","title":{"rendered":"Ways to avoid plagiarism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Concerns about plagiarism are common, especially among new students.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There are a couple of measures you can take to ensure you don\u2019t accidentally plagiarise.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The first is to take <a href=\"http:\/\/owll.massey.ac.nz\/study-skills\/note-taking.php\">good notes<\/a>. When taking notes make sure you include a full reference listing to indicate where you got the information from. Make sure you distinguish quotes in your notes from paraphrasing (by using quote marks or a different colour for quotes).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The second is to take care to reference all information full. Make sure you reference where you got your information from through in-text citations, including when you <a href=\"http:\/\/owll.massey.ac.nz\/referencing\/quoting-and-paraphrasing.php\">paraphrase<\/a>. Make sure every source cited in the text is included in the reference list.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Also see:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/owll.massey.ac.nz\/pdf\/2017%20Study%20Up%203%20How%20to%20Avoid%20Plagiarism.pptx\">http:\/\/owll.massey.ac.nz\/pdf\/2017%20Study%20Up%203%20How%20to%20Avoid%20Plagiarism.pptx<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/owll.massey.ac.nz\/pdf\/2017%20Study%20Up%203%20How%20to%20Avoid%20Plagiarism%20Handout.pdf\">http:\/\/owll.massey.ac.nz\/pdf\/2017%20Study%20Up%203%20How%20to%20Avoid%20Plagiarism%20Handout.pdf<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/owll.massey.ac.nz\/referencing\/why-reference.php\">http:\/\/owll.massey.ac.nz\/referencing\/why-reference.php<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/owll.massey.ac.nz\/main\/referencing.php\">http:\/\/owll.massey.ac.nz\/main\/referencing.php<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.massey.ac.nz\/massey\/fms\/NCTL\/Turnitin\/Student_submission_to_TII_070311.pdf\">http:\/\/www.massey.ac.nz\/massey\/fms\/NCTL\/Turnitin\/Student_submission_to_TII_070311.pdf<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Concerns about plagiarism are common, especially among new students. &nbsp; There are a couple of measures you can take to ensure you don\u2019t accidentally plagiarise. &nbsp; The first is to take good notes. When taking notes make sure you include a full reference listing to indicate where you got the information from. Make sure you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-referencing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":723,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions\/723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}