Making your arguments more credible/ENGA103/Quoting, paraphrasing, and plagiarism/E-activity-start

Challenge summary

Summary:	Reflecting on the process
	1 - 2 hours
	Linked to assessment

In this learning pathway, you learned about the correct way to integrate sources into your work. You learned about different techniques (i.e. quoting, paraphrasing, and summarising) to use the work of others to support your arguments. You also learned that it's easy to fall into what is considered plagiarism and that it's essential to cite and reference sources correctly to alleviate any doubt in your readers' minds that you are clearly separating what are your own words and thoughts from those of others.

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Stimulus resources

1. Take home message from the Youtube video.
2. Lessons learned about plagiarism in the microblog activity What is plagiarism?
3. Knowledge acquired through your readings in this learning pathway about the correct way to use the work of others to support your arguments.

Purpose

Now that you have learned a lot more about how to integrate sources into your work and about plagiarism, it's time to test your understanding. The purpose of this learning challenge is to:

• Help you test your knowledge of what is and is not plagiarism.
• Help you edit sentences where there is a doubt about the source of the information.
• Help you avoid plagiarism.