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MKT-330 (Greenberg, Fall 2025)

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Avoid Plagiarism

Avoiding Plagiarism

Plagiarism is the representation of the ideas or language of others as one's own. Unfortunately, plagiarism can be unintentional, as well as intentional.

Like most colleges and universities, Rider takes a strong stand against plagiarism. The Code of Academic Conduct reads:

  • Academic dishonesty includes any unauthorized collaboration, misrepresentation or fabrication in the submission of academic work. In all written work, whether in class or out of class, the student's name on the work is considered to be a statement that the work is his or hers alone, except as otherwise indicated. Students are expected to provide proper citations for the statements and ideas of others whether submitted word for word or paraphrased. Failure to provide proper citations will be considered plagiarism and offenders will be subject to the charge of plagiarism specified in the statement of regulations.

The full text of the Code and suggestions for avoiding plagiarism are found on the Rider University Code of Academic Integrity policy page.

The Library website provides excerpts of style guides to assist you in using correct citations to give attributions. Do not hesitate to ask librarians for assistance in avoiding plagiarism

"Copying, word for word, from any source (book, magazine, newspaper, Internet source, unpublished paper or thesis) without proper acknowledgement by quotation or citation within the text of the paper, or the submission of any part of another's work, word by word, without proper quotation or citation is an act of academic dishonesty" (Greenberg, 2025). Sometimes, you need to provide a quotation and citation if you use one or more unique words from an author.

 

Reference

Greenberg, D. (2025). MKT-330 Syllabus, Spring semester, Rider University. 

 

 

You can use your own language to re-write someone's ideas or statements. It is safe to use phrases like "According to Smith..." Or "Based on Smith's theory in 1969..." Or "As Smith pointed out...", or "Smith argues..." Or "Smith states...". It will separate your view from someone else's view.

 

Guidelines for Paraphrasing

To successfully paraphrase, and avoid patchwriting, try these steps:

  1. Read the source text carefully, until you fully understand it.
  2. If necessary, take notes on the key ideas.
  3. Put the source text away (turn the book over! close the browser!) and paraphrase it from memory.
  4. Check your newly written paraphrase against the source text for originality and accuracy.
  5. Repeat steps 1-4 if needed.
  6. Add in attribution to the original author (signal phrases) and citation.

Paraphrase Essentials

When evaluating your paraphrase, always check for these essentials: 

  • your words: it restates the passage using your own vocabulary
  • your sentence structures: it uses your own unique sentence structures
  • signal phrases: it introduces the author(s) and places the ideas in their voice
  • attribution: it provides in-text and bibliographical citation that gives credit to the source
  • accurate: it accurately conveys the ideas of the author(s)

 

 

References

University of Arkansa. . Paraphrasing. Retrieved Feb 18, 2025, from https://success.uark.edu/get-help/student-resources/paraphrasing.php

If you use ideas or information from an author, you should give credits to that author, especially the ideas and information are unique and are not considered to be common knowledge.

"It is possible to plagiarize from yourself. In academia, if you repurpose a paper from previous class or write one paper for two classes without the instructor’s permission this is plagiarism" (Purdue Online Writing Lab, 2025). For an author, it is considered self-plagiarism if he/she reuses his/her own language or ideas in previously submitted works.

 

References

Purdue Online Writing Lab. . Plagiarism FAQs - Purdue OWL® - Purdue University. Retrieved Feb 23, 2025, from https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/avoiding_plagiarism/plagiarism_faq.html

 

A false claim of authorship such as a paper you paid someone to write for you or submit a paper written by someone else.