How to Do Research
The main aim of the research is to find out the truth which is hidden and which has not been discovered as yet.
Research project writing process:
1. Begin Research: what is your research topic, your main idea?
2. Locate resources you will use: go to the library, use databases, identify other sources.
3. Select the sources you will use from the journal articles, online resources, texts.
4. Collect the data, information, and statistics.
5. Analyse your research and data, information and statistics.
6. Write the research project: complete the writing of a formal essay or presentation.
Plagiarism
What is Plagiarism
Plagiarism occurs when a writer duplicates another writer's language or ideas and then calls the work his or her own. Copyright laws protect writers' words as their legal property. To avoid the charge of plagiarism, writers take care to credit those from whom they borrow and quote. Note: Similar theft in music or other arts is also called plagiarism.
(The American Heritage® New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, (2005) Third Edition, Published by Houghton Mifflin Company).
Plagiarism is the failure to properly cite the sources of your research and writing is a serious offense in academic research. Copying someone else's work, copying text from an online journal and merely pasting it into your essay without placing it in quotations, and providing an APA in-text citation and references is stealing and is called plagiarism. You suffer a loss of an honest reputation and will face academic discipline.
Causes of Plagiarism
The most common causes of plagiarism:
1. Not enough time to accomplish an assignment.
2. No or poor language skills.
3. Not understanding plagiarism and copyright issues.
4. No citation skills.
5. No anti-plagiarism policy and no punishment rules in secondary schools.
Some free online plagiarism checkers:
DustBall
http://www.dustball.com/cs/plagiarism.checker
DupliChecker
https://www.duplichecker.com
Plagium
http://www.plagium.com
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