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How do you know if you plagiarized someone's work? Or how do you know if you have committed plagiarism? The easiest way to find out if you plagiarized a work is to put the original words side by side with what you wrote yourself. How many of the words are truly YOURS? How many of your words just repeat what the other person wrote?

Your writing should be:

  • your own original thoughts
  • held together with well-thought-out points (ingredients)
  • seasoned with short points that others made
  • peppered with a quoted definition, here and there
  • carefully combined, tossed, mixed, until it holds together well (like making a meal)
  • presented with correct grammar and punctuation
  • served with some level of your interest or passion
  • consumed (read) by an audience who ends up interested, entertained, educated (filled up) by what YOU have written

Your writing should NOT:

  • simply repeat what someone else said
  • repeat what someone else thinks/thought
  • paraphrase in such a way that makes it too similar to the original
  • take (lift) sentences or paragraphs from something someone else wrote
  • use someone else's work without crediting that person
  • be dishonest in any way
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15y ago

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