Academic Writing
Plagiarism
Note-Taking Strategies
APA Citation and Referencing
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This term refers to a formal, objective, and evidence-based style of prose used by scholars in a university setting

Academic Writing

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This is the act of presenting the words, ideas, or images of another as your own, violating ethical standards

Plagiarism

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This note-taking strategy involves a significant reduction of the original source into a concise overview

Summarizing

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APA uses this specific citation system to link in-text indicators to the full reference list

Author-Date Citation System

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Academic writing typically avoids these, which include words like "I," "me," and "my"

Personal pronouns

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On the Plagiarism Spectrum 2.0, the infraction becomes more serious as the bar reaches this color

Red

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This is the act of putting someone else's ideas into your own words while maintaining approximately the same length and meaning

Paraphrasing

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This type of citation incorporates the author's name directly into the grammar of the sentence

Narrative Citation

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This core characteristic of academic writing requires the use of non-emotive and precise language.

Objectivity

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This type of plagiarism involves engaging a third party to complete an assignment and representing it as one’s own work

Contract cheating

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This panel in Turnitin reveals the overall Similarity Score and a list of matching sources

Match Overview

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 For a work with three or more authors, you use this abbreviation after the first author's name in every citation

et al.

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Unlike a bibliography, which lists works for further reading, this list provides a reliable way for readers to identify and locate specifically cited works

References

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This occurs when students work together on an assignment meant for individual assessment. 

Student Collusion

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This punctuation mark is used in direct quotes to indicate that you have omitted or shortened the original text

Ellipsis

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If the author of a work is not named, this specific word is used as the author only if it is explicitly designated on the work

Anonymous

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The APA style manual helps show this quality in a writer by demonstrating accountability to their source material

Credibility

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This serious infraction involves falsifying or fabricating data to improperly appropriate work

Data Plagiarism

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Often the biggest challenge in research writing, this involves combining evidence from multiple sources to establish a topic or gap

Synthesizing

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When citing multiple works in one parenthetical citation, they must be separated by this punctuation mark

Semicolon

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