Negative Consequences Of Plagiarism

After I was found responsible for plagiarism a paper in my English class a few weeks ago, I was told I had to do a research paper on plagiarism as part of my probationary status. I also received a zero for that said assignment. I am still suffering the consequences of my actions. My research paper will be about preventing plagiarism and showing that I can properly cite, use in text citations, and use direct quotes, and use a reference page.

Plagiarism is a serious offense that has very negative consequences for the student and everyone else involved. The first type of feelings I experienced was feeling like a criminal and being scared. I was not trying to plagiarize, but but by not citing my paper correctly I was taking part in a academic crime. Some of the things that can occur from plagiarism go from getting an F or …show more content…
It is important because it will tell the reader which sources you used for your paper and where you got them. The reader will then be able to find the same source if he or she wants to look at it or has any questions about the source of what it says. One thing that I used to do in the past was to put my References in bold face, not the whole author and name of publication but the word reference. My instructor for my English course stated that this is in fact incorrect. She told me this last week and now I finally know that you cannot use bold for the word reference at the end of the …show more content…
When a student is using APA format it is important follow the author-date method of in-text citation. This means that the author 's last name and the year of publication for the source should appear in the text, for example, (Jones, 1998), and a complete reference should appear in the reference list at the end of the paper. This is an example of in text