Academic Writing
Plagiarism
Note-taking strategies
APA Citations and Referencing
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Academic writing avoids these types of words, such as "incredible," "huge," or "wonderful," because they are too emotional.

Emotive Language

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This basic type of plagiarism involves copying and pasting content exactly as it is without any attribution.

 word-for-word plagiarism

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This strategy should be used "sparingly" and only when the original language has a strong impact.

direct quoting

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this citation format, the entire citation (author and year) is enclosed in parentheses at the end of a sentence

Parenthetical Citation

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This type of AI, like ChatGPT or Gemini, consists of statistical algorithms trained on huge sets of data to generate and analyze content

Large Language Models (LLMs)

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his type of plagiarism involves rephrasing a source’s ideas without proper attribution.

Paraphrase plagiarism

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The first step in rule-based summarizing is to find or invent this.

Topic Sentence

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For a work with two authors, you use this symbol to separate their names in a parenthetical citation.

&

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In academic style, the informal verb "let" should be replaced by more formal alternatives like these two words

allow or permit

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This occurs when a student forgets to properly cite a source or performs unintentional paraphrasing

inadvertent plagiarism

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In the MEAL plan, this letter stands for the writer’s own interpretation or explanation of the evidence

Analysis

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When a citation is at the end of a sentence, the period should be placed in this specific location.

After closing parenthesis

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Based on university research policy, you can ask an AI tool to recommend you the best formula in analyzing data. Is this allowed or not allowed?

Allowed
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This serious infraction involves putting a researcher or institution’s reputation in jeopardy by falsifying data.

data plagiarism

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When paraphrasing, you can use these to replace words like "ancient" with "old" to fit your own style.

Synonyms

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To cite a work with an unknown author, you should move this to the author position in both the citation and the reference list

The title

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This feature of academic writing requires using precise words, such as saying "two-thirds" instead of "a lot".

Objectivity

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This specific infraction involves copying or adapting source code without permission from or attribution to the creator

computer code plagiarism

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When citing a group author like the "National Institutes of Health" for the second time, you use this shortened version

Abbreviation or acronym

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