Regarding plagiarism:

The mod team has noticed a significant number of plagiarized answers.

As a review: plagiarism is defined as “taking somebody else’s work or ideas and passing them off as one’s own.” (Sourced from Oxford Languages)

It is important to give people credit for their work. Writing original answers requires careful study and lots of hard work. Citing sources encourages creators to keep creating content, knowing their work will not be stolen and passed off as somebody else’s work.

On QC, when you submit an answer, you are inherently claiming it as your own work, unless you specify that it is not yours and give credit to the original creator.

How can you cite your sources?
1. If you find an answer from another homework help website, please do not use it. We cannot verify the originality of answers posted on other homework help sites.
2. If you find information from another type of online source, such as an article or online journal, please put any information taken verbatim in quotation marks, and link the original source at the end.
3. If you find an answer from another QC user, you may link to the original answer.

Additional note: “Google” is not a source. Google does not write the answers and articles people use here. Please cite your source properly.

Thank you for reading. Please contact a moderator or ambassador for further questions.

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Regarding plagiarism:

The mod team has noticed a significant number of plagiarized answers.

As a review: plagiarism is defined as “taking somebody else’s work or ideas and passing them off as one’s own.” (Sourced from Oxford Languages)

It is important to give people credit for their work. Writing original answers requires careful study and lots of hard work. Citing sources encourages creators to keep creating content, knowing their work will not be stolen and passed off as somebody else’s work.

On QC, when you submit an answer, you are inherently claiming it as your own work, unless you specify that it is not yours and give credit to the original creator.

How can you cite your sources?
1. If you find an answer from another homework help website, please do not use it. We cannot verify the originality of answers posted on other homework help sites.
2. If you find information from another type of online source, such as an article or online journal, please put any information taken verbatim in quotation marks, and link the original source at the end.
3. If you find an answer from another QC user, you may link to the original answer.

Additional note: “Google” is not a source. Google does not write the answers and articles people use here. Please cite your source properly.

Thank you for reading. Please contact a moderator or ambassador for further questions.

Vocaloid · Answer

Addendum: Please be honest when submitting your answers. The internet has made it very easy to find out if information has been copy-pasted from another source. As stated before, it’s hard work to learn the material and write original answers. People deserve credit for their work. A lot of QC users are artists, musicians, writers, and other creative types. I’m sure QC users wouldn’t appreciate having their creative work copy-pasted without credit. The same applies to academic work.

Vocaloid · Answer

P.S: if people actually bothered to READ the content they're plagiarizing, they'd realize when it's not even helpful/relevant to the problem...

Vocaloid · Answer

Please note that changing a few words is still plagiarism. https://ori.hhs.gov/education/products/roig_st_johns/paraphrasing%20and%20plagiarism.html#:~:text=Note%2C%20too%2C%20that%20simply%20changing,or%20paragraph%2C%20is%20still%20plagiarism.