Civil Engineering -- CIVE 445 --Groundwater Hydrology

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Citing and Documenting Sources in IEEE style

The action or practice of taking someone else's work, idea, etc., and passing it off as one's own; literary theft. (Oxford English Dictionary online, 2006)

• Give credit when you use other people's content in your academic work.
• Your assignments and exams must be your own original work, not someone else's.

Steps to avoid Plagiarism

1. Take careful, organized notes.

• Clearly mark passages you copy word-for-word, those you paraphrase and those that are you own thoughts.

2. Know how and when to cite

• Though citation rules vary for different style guides, the basic principles remain the same:
• Use quote marks when using someone's exact phrasing, even if it's only a word or two, and cite it.
• Paraphrase by putting a passage into your own words, making sure you change the sentence structure and other distinctions of the original, without misrepresenting its meaning
• Compare your paraphrase to the source and check that you haven't accidentally kept significant words or phrases.
• If an author has captured a concept perfectly, quote it, or paraphrase most of it but put quote marks around the few words that could not be said any other way.
• Always cite paraphrases! You may not be using someone else's words, but you are using their ideas.

3. Refer to the avoiding plagiarism guide