Say ‘NO’ to Plagiarism

Writing a paper is not all about project our academic knowledge but it is an art that reflects your analytical capability, rational outlook, critical notions. So whenever you will go for preparing your semester assignment, first understand your topic and its key aims. Secondly, avoid plagiarism as it can affect your academic career. Our academic world is bound up with some rules and regulations and plagiarism is one of such regulation on which our academic career is depended. We often confused plagiarism with copy-paste while in reality, its concept is vast. Therefore, we need to first understand what plagiarism is rather than how to avoid it.

In simple word, plagiarism can be avoided by free writing and you must have your analytical capability to project your ideas through your writing. One famous linguistic Jacques Derrida often said our speech and thought subordinates our writing. From cultural aspect may be this statement is true but it is also a truth that our ideas only can project through writing. Written materials are the evidence of our ideas and it is only legitimised our own authority on our ideas and thoughts. So whenever you go to know about plagiarism, the definition will be like use of someone else’s own ideas as your own without having consent.

One question should remain that in our early academic life; we often copied and pasted information from books to prepare our class notes. So is that also plagiarism? Yes, this is the confusion that we all have and therefore, I have suggested you to understand the plagiarism first before knowing its removing process.

First of all, I would say that plagiarism is not all about copy and pasted materials from scholarly books or articles. I will define it as a ‘game between word and writing’ that contains all relevant information but different writing pattern. For example, we cannot change universal terms like some financial key words, medical terms, IT key words, but whenever we will use these all in our writing, it would be plagiarised. Students have faced this kind of issue in preparing finance assignment or medical assignment. So is it a crime? Obviously not and you will not get punished for this because your writing style is solely representing your idea and knowledge. You cannot change universal terms but through your critical notions and writing pattern, your ideas get detach from scholarly articles.

This word gaming you can also use in paraphrasing an article or content. Plagiarism has its high chance while you are paraphrasing your academic assignment from other articles or books. We often think that paraphrasing is too easy because we only need to write down the gist of the content but in reality, it is not like so. You can found your paper plagiarised after paraphrasing content properly. It is because of your content looks like similar to the paraphrased content. So keep in mind, whenever you are going to paraphrase content, write down the summary by your own style to avoid plagiarism.

In the end, I would only say you good luck and keep in mind all these requirements to make your paper plagiarism free. Good Luck…!!