What is Plagiarism?
Plagiarism is copying someone else’s work or idea and passing it off as your own, without proper acknowledgement. It is a form of theft and deception, an unethical act. Learn more from the HKU plagiarism webpage.
By properly citing the sources in your writings, you are both identifying the resources that you used to complete your work and formally acknowledging the authors or creators of those resources.
How to cite?
In academic writing, you need to give credit to the sources you referred to avoid academic cheating. Citation style governs the formatting of the academic paper, in-text citations and references.
For different subjects, you may be required to use different citation styles. APA, Chicago and Harvard are most common in business. Check with your instructors about which citation style to use before you write your papers.
APA | Chicago | Harvard |
Academic Writer APA Formatting and Style Guide APA Style Blog Introducing the Basics of Seventh Edition APA Style tutorial |
Chicago Manual of Style Online Chicago-Style Citation Quick Guide CMOS Formatting and Style Guide |
Harvard Business School Citation Guide Harvard Referencing Style |
Need more information on the different citations styles? Check-out this reading list for resources on various citation styles.
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How to manage citations?
All current HKU staff and students can use EndNote both on campus and at home. With EndNote, you are able to organize bibliographic references, create in-text citations while writing papers, develop a personal library of references, format citations for papers and more to facilitate your study and research!
More: Visit this EndNote guide for more information.
You may also enroll to this self-paced online workshop which offers basic and advanced skills to build and manage your EndNote library.
How to avoid unintentional plagiarism?
Turnitin offers Originality Check on students' work for proper citation or potential plagiarism. Once a paper is submitted to Turnitin, it will compare with documents in a continuously updated database consisting of current and archived web pages, millions of student papers worldwide, and collections of newspapers, magazines, scholarly journals, e-Books and e-Texts.
Students may need to submit their assignments through HKU Moodle or Turnitin.com for similarity checking, based on the arrangement of their department / instructor. For HKU Moodle, students simply log in to find the corresponding assignment inbox. For accessing Turnitin.com, students need the class ID and enrollment key provided by your department / instructor to create their student accounts and/or add a new class.
More: Check out Turnitin Student Guide on how to submit a Turnitin assignment.
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