BA115 Week 5
BA115 Week 5
BA115 Week 5
ZAMBIA
BA115: BUSINESS AND
ACADEMIC COMMUNICATION
@2024
PLAGIARISM AND REFERENCING
Many people think of plagiarism as copying another's work or
borrowing someone else's original ideas. But terms like
"copying" and "borrowing" can disguise the seriousness of the
offense.
Plagiarism is:
the representation of another person's language, thoughts, ideas, or
expressions as one's own original work.
a piece of writing or other work reflecting such unauthorized use or imitation.
to use (another's production) without crediting the source
Examples of plagiarism Why is it wrong?
1. Copying parts of a text word for word, It makes it seem like these are your own
without quotation marks words.
2. Paraphrasing a text by changing a few It makes it seem like you came up with
words or altering the sentence structure, the idea, when in fact you just rephrased
without citing the source someone else’s idea.
3. Giving incorrect information about a If readers can’t find the cited source, they
source can’t check the information themselves.
4. Quoting so much from a source that it Even with proper citations, you’re not
makes up the majority of your text making an original contribution if you
rely so much on someone else’s words.
5. Reusing work you’ve submitted for a Even though it’s your own work, the
previous assignment, without citing reader should be informed that it’s not
yourself completely new but comes from previous
research.
Submitting a text written entirely by Not doing the work yourself is
someone else (e.g., a paper you bought academically dishonest, undermines your
TYPES OF PLAGIARISM
In academic writing, plagiarizing involves using words, ideas, or
information from a source without citing it correctly. In practice, this can
mean a few different things. These seven types of plagiarism are the most
common:
Examples of different punctuation marks include: full stops (.), commas (,),
question marks (?), exclamation marks (!), colons (:), semi-colons (;),
apostrophes (') and speech marks (",").
Punctuation, such as a full stop, comma and apostrophe, are the marks used
in writing to separate sentences and elements of sentences and clarify
meanings.
Use Of Punctuations
Punctuation mark (Symbol) Sentence example
(Holt, 1997) or Holt (1997) wrote Holt, D.H. 1997. Management principles and
Book: single author
that... practices. Sydney: Prentice-Hall.
(McCarthy, William & Pascale, McCarthy, E.J., William, D.P. & Pascale, G.Q. 1997. Basic
Book: 2 or 3 authors
1997) marketing. Sydney: Irwin.
Book: more than 3 Bond, W.R., Smith, J.T., Brown, K.L. & George, M.
(Bond et al., 1996)
uthors 1996. Management of small firms . Sydney: McGraw-Hill.
Book: no author (A history of Greece, 1994) A history of Greece. 1994. Sydney: Irwin.