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TOPIC: Plagiarism Vs Proper Citing

KEY POINTS EVALUATION

Modern Western Ideas or the way ideas are expressed have
owners since ideas have owners, using them
Thought
without permission is considered stealing or
plagiarism.

What Is Plagiarism? Taking another person’s idea or expression

of ideas and presenting it as one’s own.
Intentional or unintentional failure to cite
the source of an idea.

Examples Of 1. Turning in someone else’s work as your

own.
Plagiarism
2. Copying words or ideas from someone
else without giving credit.
3. Failing to put a quotation in quotation
marks.
4. Giving incorrect information about the
source of the quotation.
5. Changing words but copying the
sentence structure of a source without
giving credit.
6. Copying so many words or ideas from a
source makes up the majority of your
work, whether you give credit or not
(plagiarism.org).

Proper Citing It is showing your writing that you

acknowledge the source of an idea following
commonly accepted rules.
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TOPIC: Plagiarism Vs Proper Citing

KEY POINTS EVALUATION

American A common method of citing in the
behavioral and social sciences including
Psychological
education
Format (APA) Uses in-text citation and reference
sections. All sources cited in-text should
be found in the reference section and
vice versa.
Alternative to mentioning the name of a
book and its author

Citing Using APA According to Julian Peña in his book,”

Writing with style and Grace,” using a formal
style makes the reader take the writer
seriously

APA:
Peña (2015) says using a formal style makes
the reader take the writer seriously. (in-text
citation)

Using a formal style makes the reader take

the writer seriously (Peña,2015). (in-text
citation)

Bibliographic Entry:
Peña, J.Q. (2015). Writing with style and
grace: A handbook for novice writers. PNU
Press.

When the book is not the first edition: (same

as an in-text citation)
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TOPIC: Plagiarism Vs Proper Citing

KEY POINTS EVALUATION

Citing Using APA Bibliographic Entry:

Peña, J.Q. (2015). Writing with style and
grace: A handbook for novice writers (3rd
ed.). PNU Press.

In-Text Citation In-Text Citation With A Direct Quote:

With A Direct Quote: Peña (2015) says “using formal style makes
the reader take the writer seriously” (p.99)

Peña says,” using formal style makes the

reader take the writer seriously” (2015,p.99)

He says….(Peña,2015,p.99)

In-Text Citation In-Text Citation With Two Authors:

With Two Authors: Peña and Anudin (2015) - in the beginning,
(Peña & Anudin, 2015). - at the end of the
sentence.

Bibliographic Entry:
Surname initials of the two authors (year).
Title: subtitle. Publishing

In-text citation with In-text citation with a long quote (40

a long quote (40 words or more)
words or more) According to Peña (2009):
Indention and start the quote
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TOPIC: Plagiarism Vs Proper Citing

KEY POINTS EVALUATION

Citing A Print In-text: same as citing a book

Journal Bibliographic Entry:
Peña, A.S. (2019). Negrito foragers: A unique
history. Journal of the Philippines Social
Sciences, 16 (1), 15-25

Citing An Electronic Bibliographic Entry:

Journal surname, initials (year). Title of article, the
title of the periodical, volume number (issue
number), pages. DOI

Citing An Article In Surname, initials (year). Title of article. In

editors initials, surname & editors initials,
An Edited Book
surname (eds). Title of book (pp. pages).
Publisher.

SUMMARY
In this lesson, plagiarism is described as representing someone else’s ideas or the
expression of ideas as one’s own. Failure to credit the author of an invention whether
on purpose or accidentally. There are also six ways to determine plagiarism but the
solution is proper citing. Proper citing is showing some acknowledgment in your
writing for the source of the idea or the data. There is also a format known as APA or
the American Psychological Association Format. The (APA) format of citation is the
common method of citing behavioral and social sciences including education. There
are different types of APA citations there are in-text citations, when the book is not
the first edition, with direct quotes, with two authors, with long quotes, and indenting
any subsequent paragraph, these are the types of in-text citations in APA format.
There are also different types of citing different sources such as books, print journals,
electronic journals, and citing an article in edited books.