Ways to be beat Plagiarism

here is what I did, pich an article (or jsut start with a wiki article)

take out all the facts and put them in a list under each section / chapter / "part" heading - as in single / few word facts.

cross reference each fact with google, to check its a common fact, and pick up additional information along the way.

jumble the facts up a bit and then turn it onto paragraph (obviously making sure that the facts stay in the right groups)

eg one I had to do because our son forgot until the night before it had to be in

my original infor from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prairie_dog

my notes started

Prairie dogs (genus Cynomys)
burrowing rodents
native of North America
like grasslands
five species
black-tailed, white-tailed, Gunnison's, Utah and Mexican prairie dogs.
ground squirrel
United States, Canada and Mexico

I then google each "fact" and make sure its looks correct and add additional information

I got an B+ for the article I asked my son to add 4 pictures to the essay he did not bother, they marked it down because there were no pictures.... (I also got good results from several other essays I did on the same way)
 
Crumbs, have you never heard of the term paraphrase?

Secondly, don't plagarise. Read topics/articles research on your own, then put into words your own understanding. If you need help constructing it, then look to the articles for a rough guide if it helps, but don't just copy, it won't help you in the long run.

Don't you want to learn?

edscdk > Sounds like your son needs to learn the hard way, why are you doing his work?

Personally I think this topic should be closed.
 
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I'll add i got A's and B+'s for the 5 essays I did, 3 of the subjects I knew nothing about also, I had never written an essay before... gotta love the internet...
 
Copy and paste the section you want to use a paragraph under your essay.

Read it and rewrite / reword it as you go along, and then place a number in brackets after the section indicating which reference it is from, or wtite the authors name followed by 'et al' and then delete the copy pasta section when done.

Fool proof and easy.
 
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yer technically, I was well chuffed with my first A since I never went to unit... it was a B+ but had he added the pics I downloaded for him it would hae been an A..

Why are you doing your son's work for him? He's hardly going to learn much that way is he?
 
Copy it, and get a thesaurus. Every few words, as long as it's not in a quote, look it up in the thesaurus and replace it with another word with the same meaning. Best to rewrite whole sentences, even paragraphs.

But the simplest ways are: writing it all yourself, and maybe pasting in a couple sentences with a few modifications to help you along the way. And the other, avoiding it altogether and just using your information as a source, nothing more. That means no direct copy paste :P
 
yer technically, I was well chuffed with my first A since I never went to unit... it was a B+ but had he added the pics I downloaded for him it would hae been an A..

Excellent way to set up your kid for failure.

If they can't do the work then help them by all means but don't cheat. You're setting themselves up for failure when they have to do exams - spending time actually helping and going through it could both get them good grades and an actual understanding of the work.

God help them when they get to proper work.



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