{"id":2702,"date":"2015-06-22T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kibin.com\/blog\/?post_type=essay-writing-blog&p=2702"},"modified":"2019-04-21T19:56:43","modified_gmt":"2019-04-22T02:56:43","slug":"how-to-avoid-plagiarism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kibin.com\/essay-writing-blog\/how-to-avoid-plagiarism\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Avoid Plagiarism in Your Essay Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"

You\u2019ve heard your instructor rant, rave, and threaten about avoiding plagiarism since the beginning of the school year, but now that the first major paper is almost due, you are starting to panic.<\/p>\n

Can you plagiarize on accident? What counts as plagiarism? What are you going to do?<\/p>\n

WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO?<\/p>\n

All right. Knock off your caps lock already. Keep calm and read on. I\u2019ve got answers for you. Let me teach you how to avoid plagiarism in your writing.<\/p>\n

What Is <\/i>Plagiarism Exactly?<\/h2>\n

No one wants to speak up in class and ask the seemingly obvious question: What is plagiarism? How can I know how to avoid plagiarism if I don\u2019t know what it is?<\/p>\n

Read on, and I\u2019ll give you what you need to know.<\/p>\n

First of all, Merriam-Webster describes plagiarism as the \u201cthe act of using another person\u2019s words or ideas without giving credit to that person,\u201d but you probably already looked that up, and it doesn\u2019t exactly lay it out for you. I mean, your research essay or book report is going to be full<\/em> of another person\u2019s ideas, right?<\/p>\n

Plagiarism can be any of the following:<\/p>\n