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Techniques For Avoiding Plagiarism

If you are directly quoting other's ideas or expressing their ideas in your own words (paraphrasing), you need to show the readers (and markers) that there is an expert source. This is because the evidence of the expert sources makes your views and arguments more convincing and authoritative. So how can we indicate to our reader that our views are derived from those of experts?

You need to consider the following two areas:

  1. Paraphrasing
  2. Effective Note-taking

 

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