Friday, July 9, 2010

Choose Your Sources Properly

Most of the time academic writing involves conducting some kind of information gathering and research. Whether composing a description essay or writing a research paper, one has to review particular sources on the chosen topic to acquire not only basic descriptive information but also to point out supporting arguments to be used in backing up one’s own thesis or counterargument. Either way, the choice of the sources becomes a vital factor, which does not only influence the strength of the argumentation, but can also be a subject to grade deduction or even paper failure from the professor as a result of the poor sources allocation.

Credibility of the sources, both printed and online, can be determined by the following criteria:

- Credibility of the author – you must make sure that the person you are quoting or whose ideas you are using to support your own is an expert in the given field. In order to rely on the chosen author, you should be 100% sure that he/she has a sufficient knowledge, credentials and qualifications as well as authority in this particular field;

- Currency of the information – professors usually determine individually the timing range for the sources to be used in the paper. However, you should keep in mind that old information, which usually comes from the books, is good for background information, while for updated and contemporary facts one should use scholarly periodicals, which track new discoveries and studies on the daily basis.

- Authority of the publications – it is usually advisable to use an author with a couple of peer reviews published as those speak for the fact that his/her ideas and approaches are approved by the experts in this particular field of your interest and can be considered truly reliable and credible. Please note that if the author does not have any peer reviews published, that does not necessary mean that he/she is not credible. The person can still be an expert; it is just that the peer reviews act as an additional and highly valuable element of the personal expertise evaluation.

Undoubtedly, the above mentioned list of the source credibility criteria can be continued on and on. However, if you manage to use at least those in allocating the sources for your essay or research paper, it will definitely result in high appraisal from the professor or tutor. The credibility of the sources is as important in the academic writing process as formatting and paper literacy are, so, be sure to use the above mentioned tips when allocating the sources and your paper will end up being a reliable and informative piece of academic writing.

Monday, July 5, 2010

Everlasting Plagiarizm Concern

Hello Everyone!

Hope you had great weekends and got the chance to spend the 4th of July with your family and friends.

The issue I would like to speculate about today is plagiarism and the rising concern for its avoidance. When asked to come up with various types of academic assignments, you will most probably be required to use a certain amount of sources to back up your argumentation or observation. The information borrowed from those sources is the result of someone else’s previously conducted studies, researches and discoveries. Therefore, cannot be used as your own observation or presupposition, as you were not the one coming up with it in the first place.

So, when deciding on the possible definition of the phenomenon of plagiarism, one can describe it as a direct borrowing of someone else’s words or thoughts and using those as your own without citing or referencing them properly. The vital part to understand here is that plagiarism is in no way acceptable in academic writing and must be avoided by all means.

Most of the time, when students have no idea what to write about in their papers, they simply google the information on the web and then copy/paste the found piece of writing without even putting a note of the info being borrowed or copied. What they most evidently suppose is that the abundance of the available online information makes it impossible for the instructor to track the borrowed piece. But this is not true at all. With TurnItIn plagiarism reports available for every professor, there is no way for the plagiarized part to be missed or overlooked. As for the possible outcomes for the students, such unauthorized use of already published and printed materials can result in quite harsh punishment. The luckiest ones may escape with a note from the professor to redo the whole paper or to cite all the plagiarized parts properly, while, others can fail the course or even be expelled from the educational establishment. Plagiarism detected in such writing pieces as thesis and dissertations is most of the time a subject to legal examination and the person suspected of it can be faced with fines and charges as well as be expelled from the academic community as intellectual property is a subject of a great individual value that requires a lot of time and effort to come up with and even more time and effort to protect in the future.

One of the most frequent plagiarism issues that professional writing agency face nowadays is the worsened reputation due to the multiple plagiarism abuse by scam writing companies that resell already used essays and make students fail their classes. Those helpless students trust their academic results to the writing companies looking for help and support, but receive plagiarism and class failure in the end. The turning point here is that you should be really careful when choosing your writing agency. Its credibility MUST be indisputable. Take, for example, BestEssayHelp. From my personal experience I can point out that with BestEssayHelp at your side you no longer have to worry about originality and authenticity of your papers. 0% plagiarism is our fundamental policy, which ensures that every paper is being written from scratch with compliance to all paper instructions and requirements. Each submitted paper is being run through plagiarism detection software and there are free TurnItIn plagiarism reports available per customers’ request. When a writing agency can ensure such originality features, it speaks for its professionalism and indisputable trustworthiness.

So, when choosing an academic writing agency to assist with your papers, you have to be really careful to trust your work in the hands of true professionals, who know how important plagiarism avoidance is and who are also experienced and highly knowledgeable in the sphere of academic citations and references.

Use academic writing support wisely, so that to enrich your own writing skills and abilities.

Yours,


Paul