In the process of writing papers, articles, thesis, we always meet an issue: avoiding plagiarism.
What is plagiarism? It refers to a form of cheating that has been defined as "the false assumption of authorship: the wrongful act of taking the product of another person's mind, and presenting it as one's own" (Alexander Lindey, Plagiarism and Originality, [New York: Harper, 1952] 2) (Joseph Gibaldi, MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 5th ed., [New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 1999], 30).
Forms of plagiarism include the failure to give appropriate acknowledgement:
- when repeating another's wording or particularly apt phrase
- when paraphrasing another's argument
- when presenting another's line of thinking.
(Joseph Gibaldi, MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 5th ed., [New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 1999], 30).