Recognizing Plagiarism in Written Articles
D. T.
Walden University
Foundation of Human Services
HUMN-8000-6
Dr. Mary Larscheid
December 30, 2011

Recognizing Plagiarism in Written Article It seems that the student has copied portions of the source into his or her work. The student paraphrased the work by using portions of sentences word for word. There are no quotation marks to indicate the words are a direct quote from the original author. The student also failed to cite the source of the information. For example: “But it is hard to know if a conflict of interest between doctors, researchers, and the drug company stockholders have tainted the results. Biomedical researchers incorporate strict rules of science into their work, which is examined by peers.” One way of summarizing this could be: There really is no way to determine whether the study has been compromised because professional biases are difficult to establish.
Because of this consumers rely upon the physicians’ professional insight and protection from any compromised research (Crosson, 1994). There are various ways to recognize plagiarism. Walden University has use of technology in the form of TurnItIn to detect any form of plagiarism. Plagiarism can be recognized when parts of the original work is offered as a student’s own work. Also when any information that is not common knowledge is used. Failing to give credit to the original source of information through citation or reference list is included in this definition. Plagiarism can also occur when a student use their own work from a previous class. Plagiarism can be avoided when some fool prove techniques are used by the student. Anything that is not the student’s own idea should be cited as the source of the information especially during the research process. Marking information with different colors may help the student knows their own insight from the insight of the original author. Citation and reference material should be documented according to the APA format Walden University guidelines. Another important point to remember is when paraphrasing, start the sentence with recognition of the author in order to prevent plagiarism.

References

Crosson, C. (1994). Tainted: The manipulation of fact in America, New York, N.Y: Touchstone, pp/166-167
Walden University (2004) Examples of plagiarism, and of appropriate use of others’ words and ideas. (2004). Retrieved from http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/pamphlets/plagiarism.pdf