Factors to Consider in Writing Content: Plagiarism, Citation, Paraphrasing, Referencing, Quotation

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
Plagiarism....................................................................................................................................3
Citation........................................................................................................................................3
Paraphrasing................................................................................................................................4
Referencing..................................................................................................................................4
Quotation.....................................................................................................................................4
Importance of note takings skills.................................................................................................5
Style of Referencing....................................................................................................................5
Referencing errors.......................................................................................................................5
Verbal Communication skills......................................................................................................6
Improvement in oral communication skills.................................................................................6
Improving collaborative learning................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
This report covers the complete description of the different factors that needs to focused
while writing any content. These factors include the paraphrasing, citation. Plagiarism,
referencing, quotation. This report delivers the definition and answer the what, how and why
question pertaining to these factors that improves the understandings and helps to write the
quality content in both professional and personal lives. An individual must uses these elements
while he/she addresses the academic writing, these elements helps to provide the data with more
authencity and relevance (Badenhorst, 2018).
MAIN BODY
Plagiarism
Plagiarism is determined by the cooing some else’s content or in simple words stealing
the data of others. Plagiarism is a serious issue that as means stealing of other data which
delivers the unethical behaviour. Plagiarism is offensive in nature and unacceptable. In order to
deal with this issues, an individual must focus on collecting the data by himself/herself by
primary sources of the data and secondary sources of the data collection. An individual always
faces of the issues when he/she uses plagiaristic content, thus an individual use fair measures to
avoid such cases. While data analysis and data collection the individual must focus on writing
the meaningful conclusion on what he/she analyses with the specific situation. Flowing this, any
individual can avoid the situation of plagiarism. Different universities and other institutions
delivers the percentage of data which can be copied but if it exceeds the percentage of the
plagiarism, it will be said as copied data from different sources. Thus, an individual must focus
on rendering self-analyzed data (Gregoromichelaki, 2017).
Citation
Citation is defined when the writer in the content acknowledges the sources of the content
where it is referred from. Citation is important as it delivers the author’s information that where
the data has come from, description of the title, determines the data of the copy published, the
name and location of the company publishing your data. Citation is important in order to
determine the deal of the data coming from, citation determines the research that one have done,
it basically supports your data with external sources. Citation is also important to determine the