What exactly is plagiarism? (1 Viewer)

[#23]

So, you have to write about an organisation and you visit their website's about us section, you get the same information fromt heir website, however, you change around the wording and add abit of other information here and there. The site doesnt have an author, only the organisation and the year published. You go to use one of the online plagiarism detectors on the internet and it detects that nothing is plagiarised except for some terms that cannot be changed, ie, the names of the people of the organisation. I then correctly refernce this in the bibliography. Is this plagiarism?


Also, some websites dont have authors so when you do the (Hancock, 1954), how exactly are you meant to do it when there is no author? (Council of Diabetes, 1999)? Is it okay just to refernce it in the bibliography if this is the case?

 

[#23]

Well, if you correctly referenced it, it's not plagiarism.

Are you referring to 'referenced correctly in the bibliography?'

 

[Captain Gh3y]

Plagiarism is where you don't end every single sentence of what you're writing with a reference to someone who had similar thoughts once before in the past, that has commas and full stops in precisely the correct place according to the style guide most favoured by your lecturer (otherwise the reference is null and void and you're a dirty plagiarist who needs to be thrown out of uni and banned for life)¹



1: Your Mother, 2006, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

 

[PrincessSJ]

Plagiarism is where you don't end every single sentence of what you're writing with a reference to someone who had similar thoughts once before in the past, that has commas and full stops in precisely the correct place according to the style guide most favoured by your lecturer (otherwise the reference is null and void and you're a dirty plagiarist who needs to be thrown out of uni and banned for life)¹



1: Your Mother, 2006, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

becuase uni students aren't allowed too have any original thoughts right??

 

[#23]

SO
1. What happens if the page your on DOESNT have an author? How are you supposed to do the (Blah, 2006) then?
2. What happens if you don't end the sentence with that (Blah, 2006) because it didnt have an author but you have added it in the bibliography? Is that still plagiarism?

 

[#23]

SO
1. What happens if the page your on DOESNT have an author? How are you supposed to do the (Blah, 2006) then?
2. What happens if you don't end the sentence with that (Blah, 2006) because it didnt have an author but you have added it in the bibliography? Is that still plagiarism?
3. DO you have to, after every sentence, put that (haha,2006) or will the bibliography be enough?