The Importance of Citations or reference

Afan Osman

November 25, 2010

The Importance of Citations or reference

The university students and the scholars always have to some resources while writing academic essays or reporting on something. Academic students, reporters, authors, scholars, scientists, and so on always want to write their ideas and publish it to the public. They all want their readers to take advantages of their writings, and they want to be effective. While having your ideas written down, they need some more things to support their ideas and points of view. So they will try to take advantages of the other writers or sources. That is to help them be clearer and more specific on their writings. People, the readers, will appreciate this kind of writing, and they will love to hear the new ideas. There is something which is worthy to be mentioned while somebody quotes the other writers’ ideas and pieces of writing. WE NEED TO WRITE THE NAME OF THE BOOK AND THE WRITER WHICH YOU TAKE POINTS AND IDEAS FROM; OTHERWISE IT WILL BE SOMETHING DEVASTATING AND SHAMEFUL WHICH WE CALL, “PLAGIARISM.” I can call it dishonesty of the studentwww.plagiarism.org, “plagiarism is to steal and pass off other (the ideas and words of another) as one’s own. Or it is to commit literary theft.”

 s and other writers. So let’s be careful of it and don’t do it at any time. To be aware of it and to be kept from it, we need to know exactly what plagiarism is. According to

According to www.factstaff.elon..ed, “In one common form of plagiarized essay, the student has done the research, written most of the essay, but leaves out critical quotation marks or footnotes.” Having taken ideas from others and having left the name of the resources, the students show their incapability in writing essays or researches. This plagiarism and leaving the name of the writers hurts your writing so badly, and they will be useless or reprehensible. Some people call it, “stealing others’ ideas.” According to Mr. Gray, who is a famous writing professor, plagiarism is stealing ideas from others.

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The citations

1-    What is plagiarism, http://www.plagiarism.org/plag_article_what_is_plagiarism.html.

2-    Plagiarism and the Challenge of Essay Writing: Learning from our Students, by  Janice Newton, Department of Political Science at the York University,  http://facstaff.elon.edu/sullivan/cheat. June 1995.

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3-    AUI-S, Writing teacher, Mr. Gray. 2010.