Avoiding Plagiarism in Writings by Paraphrasing

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Avoiding plagiarism in writings by paraphrasing
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• One of the great ways to avoid plagiarism in your
  writings is to paraphrase the content you want to
  include.
• Paraphrasing is changing the text using your own
  mind. The result will be the text with the same
  meaning but composed with your own words.
• Regardless of how you have changed the content,
  you still need to make an attribution to original
  text and state it in your References page.
• Improper paraphrasing is considered to be the
  most common mistake by writers, which leads to
  so-called accidental plagiarism.
• Lets review the methods how you can properly
  paraphrase material in this post.

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• The following sentence is the one that will be
  paraphrased as an example. The right and wrong
  results are presented below for you to understand
  how it is done.
• The Bulls made the playoffs and defeated Brooklyn
  in seven games.
• The sentence is pretty easy to paraphrase. We
  have to leave the meaning of it which is as
  follows the team, Bulls win the series against
  Brooklyn team and therefore made the playoffs of
  the tournament.

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• Students sometimes change only the order of words
  in sentences, which leads to something like this
• Brooklyn was defeated by Bulls in seven games so
  they made the playoffs.
• The paraphrasing in this sentence is pretty weak.
  First, the writer just moved the title of the
  second team to the first part of the sentence and
  left the other part pretty much intact.
  Therefore, the sentence is more plagiarized than
  paraphrased because the writer did not use his
  own words in the writing.

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• Lets see the correct example of paraphrasing the
  sentence
• The playoffs for Bulls were the result of their
  seven games series against Brooklyn.
• Here the writer actually changed the first part
  of the sentence by adding his own words. All
  information from the original writing remained
  intact as well as the message. The structure
  made the playoffs was removed as well as new
  words were added result, series and
  against. All what is left to do here is to
  credit the original writer.

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The most common mistakes in paraphrasing

• One of the most common mistakes that writers made
  during paraphrasing is that they change the words
  with synonyms. Dont forget that the structure of
  the original sentence is still there so the
  outcome will be very close to the original. That
  can easily lead to plagiarism.
• Another mistake includes not using the quotation.
  This means that the words dont indicate that
  they have come from the original author. You have
  to include quotation marks around all such
  sentences. It is also recommended not to use a
  lot of quotation because the paper should contain
  your own words rather than words of others, no
  matter if they indicated properly or not.

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• Another thing to remember is that you should
  leave the language of the writer.
• For example, if you need to paraphrase material
  about inflation, you should keep economic style
  to your text and dont use conventional or
  conversational words and structures.

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