How can you avoid being detected for plagiarism when writing an essay abroad? You may have heard that Australia has a particularly strong internet detection system, they check every term paper for homework, and plagiarism will kill you! And the UK has a particularly strong impact on students’ academic dishonesty, which could affect your ability to find a job and continue your education in the future. In the US, plagiarism is even more serious, and if you plagiarise, you’ll be expelled, so you can’t expect to go to school.
In this case, what should we do? In fact, in addition to consciously improve, but also to master some practical writing skills. After all, original ideas are really hard to find, we can only cleverly quote people.
D One, we can try a different way of expression.
When quoting other people’s opinions, we only need to extract the main points and then re-describe them in our own words.
For example, we can make up a short story and let the characters in the story illustrate the point;
Or describe it in other tenses. But don’t forget not to overuse this trick and show your independent thinking.
Secondly, we can use synonyms. For example, “thesis” can be replaced by “essay”, “plagiarism” by “plagiarism”, and “motive” by “intention”.
Thirdly, the risk of plagiarism can be greatly reduced by correct citation.
For example, we can use inverted commas or special fonts to add comments to point out other people’s opinions.
When you write a formal essay, you must clearly state in the text which book the quotation comes from, the author, the publisher and the year of publication, etc. If you are quoting or rewriting a particular book, you should not use the word “plagiarism”. If you don’t have time to format your citations properly when quoting or rewriting a particular document, you may not be able to figure out where these quotes and ideas came from by the time you finalise the paper, leading to accidents.
Fourth, for papers with particularly high checking rates, we can consider replacing the content with images.
Because web-based weight checking software mainly only looks at the text part, pictures and tables are not in their monitoring scope.
Therefore, we can make some of the contents into pictures or convert them into tables, or present them by writing codes, so that we can easily change the duplicated contents in them.
Fifth, we can use some checker tools to prevent plagiarism.
For example, tools like Turnitin or Helioblast are surely good to help with the help of them for a final check after writing.
These tools will find out the areas of your paragraphs and statements that have a high repetition rate, and we can focus on changing those areas.
Also the whole process of gathering information and putting pen to paper may take longer than expected, so be sure to set aside enough time to review relevant literature, organise your thoughts, outline, and on that basis think about how to properly incorporate that literature into your paper. Don’t wait until it’s almost due before you start to get anxious, as it’s a matter of minutes before something goes wrong at that time.
Lastly, in addition to being determined not to plagiarise yourself, always remember not to lend your work to others to plagiarise haha. This is a very serious offence in the minds of Americans, and if you are caught, it will have the same serious consequences as plagiarism.
There was once someone who plagiarised her boyfriend’s programming homework in a computer science class, and as a result, not only was she exposed by the professor, but her boyfriend was also implicated, and the school had to launch a full investigation into them.
Therefore, we must adhere to the principle of “three no’s”: don’t ask others what the answer is, don’t plagiarise, and don’t give others a copy of your answer.
In general, American universities attach great importance to the attitude of students in the academic field, and will never tolerate any false elements. If you are unfortunate enough to be caught plagiarising at a foreign university, it is important that you consult a professional for assistance.
