The seventh chapter of The Bedford Reader, titled Avoiding Plagiarism, is split into six parts. The first section talks about what plagiarism is, and splits up plagiarism into two different categories, intentional, and unintentional. This section also talked about how to share credit in a group project. The next section talks about research ethics. This section basically came down to accurately representing your sources in your project as well as the info that those sources contain, and by doing this, readers will take your work more seriously. The third section talked about what common knowledge is, and how anything that is considered common knowledge does not need to be cited or have a source.
The fourth section of the chapter discussed what fair use of a source is and when to ask for permission. Fair use came down to what a random person is allowed to do with copyrighted materials, such as allowing criticism and teaching, while not allowing a person to publish anything based off of that material without asking for permission from the author first. The fifth section talks about how to avoid plagiarism and what goes through writer’s head when they plagiarize, such as the writer running out of time or thinking that they are no good at writing. The final section talked about what to do when accused of plagiarism, basically saying to look through your document to see where the problem areas could be and bringing in notes to show your thoughts form the sources thoughts.
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