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2. Wikipedia:Use our own words - Wikipedia

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   Write in your own words. It may seem obvious that editors should choose their own words when writing articles. We have a long content guideline on plagiarism and another explanatory essay on close paraphrasing. And it is obvious and normal for editors to choose their own words, rather than lift them from our sources. It is quite normal for a ...

3. Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing - Wikipedia

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   Wikipedia:Plagiarism (guideline) – Guideline on Wikipedia's definition of and approach to handling plagiarism to avoid making the work of others look like your own. "Let's get serious about plagiarism" , Wikipedia Signpost (op-ed) – Thorough discussion of Wikipedia's position regarding plagiarism, including how to avoid it, good practices ...

4. Wikipedia:Plagiarism - Wikipedia

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   An easy way to test for plagiarism of online sources is to copy and paste passages into a search engine. Exact matches, or near matches, may be plagiarism. When running such tests, be aware that other websites reuse content from Wikipedia. A list of identified websites which do so is maintained at Wikipedia:Mirrors and forks. It is usually ...

5. Plagiarism - Wikipedia

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   This is an abridged version of Teddi Fishman's definition of plagiarism, which proposed five elements characteristic of plagiarism. [57] According to Fishman, plagiarism occurs when someone: Uses words, ideas, or work products; Attributable to another identifiable person or source; Without attributing the work to the source from which it was ...

6. Wikipedia:No original research - Wikipedia

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   Instead, plagiarism is defined as using a source's information, ideas, words, or structure without citing them. The second paragraph is original research because it expresses a Wikipedia editor's opinion that, given the Harvard manual's definition of plagiarism, Jones did not commit it.

7. Turnitin - Wikipedia

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   The essays submitted by students are stored in a database used to check for plagiarism. This prevents one student from using another student's paper, by identifying matching text between papers. In addition to student papers, the database contains a copy of the publicly accessible Internet, with the company using a web crawler to continually ...