Academic Essay Writing for Postgraduates

Running head: ACADEMIC PRACTICE
Academic Practice
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ACADEMIC PRACTICE1
Part- 1
Every person in their student lives writes essay, assignments, reports, dissertation and
different form of academic writing for their schools and colleges. To write these assignments,
everyone takes the help of different writers, authors, researchers and professors to get some idea
about the topic of the task. Therefore, it is essential for the students to acknowledge the credits of
those sources from where they have taken the ideas to write. By referencing, a reader:
 Differentiate between the own thoughts of a student and the concepts taken from the
work of others;
 To follow up the facts referred by the student.
The sources must be acknowledged by the student at every point of time whenever they make it
or use the information to inform the reader that the idea has taken from another writer and not the
own idea of a student. It has been observed that the introduction and conclusion part of the
academic writing considered being the exclusive idea of the student. The main body consists of
various ideas of several writers. The student can acknowledge his/her debt to the other writers at
any time by making in texting in each paragraph and a detailed bibliography at the end of the
writing.
Part- 2
In simple words, the meaning of plagiarism is to copy the words and thoughts of other
writers, authors, professors and researchers. It is cheating and punishable as an offence of theft.
Sometimes it has been observed that plagiarism happens without the ill intention. For identifying
plagiarism, it is crucial to know how the plagiarism occurs while writing academic papers. The
below-mentioned list provides the examples which frequently observed in academic writings,
such as: