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In this article, a student writer discusses how mastering various study skills – referencing and paraphrasing in particular – can contribute towards your academic success. The following article will discuss how study skills can be applied to achieve academic success. It will focus on two key skills, activities related to the main topic of discussion, … Read more

In this article, a student at North Georgia Technical College explains how to avoid plagiarism, from her own perspective. Paraphrasing is taking other persons’ ideas and reconstructing a sentence, while using synonyms to appear as though they are your own ideas. Paraphrasing is considered a form of plagiarism. As a whole, plagiarism is stealing other … Read more

The growth of the Internet has meant that billions of web pages, books, journals and other resources are available to students in just a few clicks. Consequently, student plagiarism is now the biggest dilemma that colleges, universities and other learning institutions now face, threatening to undermine and call into disrepute the value of awards that … Read more

INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of Study ‘Plagiarism is the act of taking the writings of another person and passing them o’ as one’s own. The fraudulence is closely related to forgery and piracy-practices generally in violation of copyright laws.’ (Encyclopedia Britannica, cited in Asim, MEr Ali, HM, Dahwa, A, & Vaclav, S 2011). The word plagiarism … Read more

An ongoing debate in the academic world is whether plagiarism checkers like plagiarismchecker.net help students cheat, or whether they help students avoid genuine accidental plagiarism.  What do you think? Have you ever used a plagiarism checker to help you cheat? Take part in our poll below (you’ll be able to see what other students said as … Read more

Plagiarism isn’t the same everywhere on the web… The word “plagiarism’ isn’t as hard to type as you might think. Doing some keyword research this month at plagiarismchecker.net, we thought we’d see where people tripped up. Surprisingly, there are just a small handful of typos, which include: We did a news search and found 42 … Read more

Most people will be familiar with the custom essay concept – where a student gives a company their essay question and gets an exact answer back which is written from scratch and fully referenced, ready for them to hand in or “use as a guide’, as the companies would tell you. The essays are written … Read more

Sam Smith – know for his vocals on Disclosure’s “Latch”, Naughty Boy’s “La La La” and his own numerous releases – did well at the recent Grammys scooping up four awards that included Best New Artist and Best Pop Vocal Album. His biggest and perhaps most well known hit “Stay With Me” was a contender … Read more