Dissertation submission Guidelines: Tips to avoid disaster

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HOW TO AVOID PLAGIARISM WHILE REFERRING OTHER
PEOPLES WORK
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Introduction
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A dissertation is a very important part of every
students academic life

• The students need to do a lot of research while
  working on a dissertation.
• During the process of writing the dissertation,
  not all the ideas in the dissertation belong to
  the writer.
• Some of the ideas might be taken as an
  inspiration from other writers.
• However, from an academic point of view, it is
  unethical to use the ideas of other writers and
  submitting it as an own study.
• However, there is a solution to such problem.
• The answer to such a problem is referencing

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Referencing? What is that?
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Acknowledging the idea or content of other
writers used in your essay or work is called
referencing

• In-Text
• The in-text citation is used to refer the
  inspired content within the body of the
  assignment.
• For instance, you have mentioned about a fact in
  one of your paragraphs.
• In such case, you must cite the fact at the end
  of the sentence

• Reference List
• The reference list is a list which contains the
  details of all the references used in the in-text.

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Benefits of Referencing
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Adding references to your content adds value to
your arguments

• It displays that you have gained a wide knowledge
  from various writings and experts.
• A good reference also helps you score good
  grades.
• Moreover, it also helps to avoid the accusation
  of plagiarism.

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Tips to Avoid Plagiarism
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• Paraphrasing
• When you paraphrase the text of an author, you
  should ensure that you make use of unique
  sentence structure and words.

• Quotes
• Highlight the direct quotes that you use in your
  content. Later, provide an in-text citation to
  those quotes.

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When to Cite
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• Distinct Ideas Cite the sources when the ideas
  and opinions belong to a particular source.
• Intellectual Structure When the intellectual
  structure is adopted from any source you should
  cite it. Information In case you use any
  information such as statistics, facts, diagram,
  etc. from any source.
• Phrase Any phrase or passage unique to the
  personal work of the author should be referenced.
• Non-Common Knowledge Any information that is not
  common knowledge and is some other work.
• Doubtful Whenever you are in doubt, it is better
  to cite the source so that you can avoid any kind
  of plagiarism.

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How to Cite a Reference
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There are many referencing styles that can be
used to cite

• Some of the most common referencing styles are
• Harvard
• American Psychology Association (APA)
• Modern Language Association (MLA)

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Conclusion
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After writing the content and referencing it, you
should check your content for plagiarism

• There are several tools that allow you to check
  your dissertation for plagiarism.
• For instance, Turnitin can help you identify the
  sentences that are plagiarised, both
  intentionally and unintentionally.
• If you find it difficult to write a plagiarism
  free content, you can get dissertation assignment
  help from Uniresearchers.

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