Literature is definitely indispensable in thesis writing, so there is a problem. How to cite other people's literature to avoid plagiarism? In fact, this problem is small and big. Besides the big ones, as long as you seldom quote them, take more notes. Let's talk about the small one. In recent years, various departments have been strictly investigating plagiarism and will report it regularly.
Plagiarism is actually easy to understand, that is, using other people's words or opinions without specifying them. An official explanation, such as the Author's Handbook of the American Modern Language Association, says: Plagiarism refers to using other people's opinions or expressions in your writing without properly indicating the source.
For papers, plagiarism can be divided into two categories: one is plagiarism, which does not indicate other people's views; One is plagiarism, that is, copying others' words without indicating the source and using quotation marks. As we all know, the paper values the originality of ideas, so the former is more serious than the latter.
In fact, if a sentence in your paper is very similar in structure and viewpoint to the original data, rather than repeating it in your own words, then even if the source is indicated, it is still plagiarism (or plagiarism). You can't simply change the data or simply summarize, but completely reshape the opinions and sentences, otherwise you can quote them directly.
What behaviors are specifically included?
1, plagiarism
Directly copy the opinions, conclusions and arguments of works protected by copyright, instead of quoting them.
2. Plagiarism of arguments
Plagiarism argument, argument, result, investigation, design, etc. Works protected by copyright.
3. Data plagiarism
Direct use of research, experiments and other data in other people's research results.
4. Picture plagiarism
Use other people's original pictures directly, or copy other people's original expressions.
5. Conceptual plagiarism
Copying original elements such as definitions, principles and formulas in works protected by copyright.
6. Sentence plagiarism
Copy the original words, without quotation marks, and don't reorganize the opinions in other people's papers.
7. Quote too many original words
This is easy to understand. What's the point of a paper if there are too many others? Even quoting is plagiarism.
8. In other words.
Although the sentence is reorganized, the overall expression structure or plot is very similar to others, which belongs to plagiarism. For example, delete a few words, reverse sentences, add a few words and so on. It's all plagiarism
In fact, from the perspective of copyright law, plagiarism should be stealing other people's works or fragments of works and publishing them. Because plagiarism requires four necessary conditions, first, such behavior should be illegal; But the existence of objective damage; Third, there is a causal link with the damage; Fourth, the actor is at fault.
Because plagiarism needs to be published before infringement can occur, there are objectively damaging facts, so from the perspective of copyright law, plagiarism is generally recognized as publishing plagiarism.
In any case, plagiarism is shameful and disrespectful to the intellectual achievements of others. Either quote directly, but not much, or rewrite it completely with your own point of view, but it is not chaotic.