TOPIC 6 : TAKING LECTURER NOTES

PLAGIARISM

DEFINITION OF PLAGIARISM
What is plagiarism ?


Plagiarism is an act of presenting another person's work or ideas as your own or commonly referred to as imitation . Plagiarism also mean an unlawful act of copying someones website content and make it to be in any form and republishing it without giving due credit .

AVOIDING PLAGIARISM 


As a student , it is very important to us to avoiding plagiarism . It is because plagiarism is considered to be a major offences especially when it occurs during examination . So how we can preventing plagiarism ?

Here is a few way that I can share with you ,

STEP 1

⇼ You can planning your paper by doing consult with your lecturer and take a note what have you discussed with them . After that , plan your paper with that effective notes . 

STEP 2 

⇼ Writing your paper 
⇼ Cite your sources
⇼ Make it clear who said what 
⇼ Know how to pharaprase
⇼ Evaluate your sources 
⇼ In clue a reference page 

Nowadays , there are plenty of application that can detect the plagiarism . For example , TURNITIN






CALCULATING GRADE POINT AVERAGE ( GPA )

Grade Point Average or usually referred to as GPA is the total credit values registered and attempted in the assessment of a semester per with the total credit units acquired in the same semester .





GPA Calculator 






CUMULATIVE GRADE POINT AVERAGE ( CGPA )

Cumulative Grade Point Average or usually referred to as CGPA a little bit different with Grade Point Average ( GPA ) which is the total credit values registered and attempted in the assessment of all per the total credit units acquired in all semester . 

ACADEMIC STATUS 

↬ D1 - D1 is a CGPA that less than 1.80 .

↬ D2 - D2 is a CGPA that less than 1.80 with P1 status .

↬ D3 - D3 is a CGPA that less than 2.00 with P2 status .

↬ D4 - D4 is failed in a certain course for the third time

↬ D5 - D5 is a CGPA that less than 2.00 at the end of the maximum period of study and still have course which have been not complete .

↬ D6 - D6 is passed all course required by a programmed and fulfilled all the requirements of the programmed but acquired a CGPA of less than 2.00

↬ D7 - D7 is did not sit for the examination of all the registered course for that semester without the approval of the University .

REFERENCE USING APA SYSTEM

What is APA System ?

APA is refer to American Psychological Association . APA style is most frequently used within the social sciences , in order to cite various sources . APA requires two elements which is in-text citations throughout your assignment , and a reference list at the end . So , how to reference using APA System ? 




Here is the example how to write reference using APA System :


One author (a book chapter)
Easton, B. (2008). Does poverty affect health? In K. Dew & A. Matheson (Eds.), Understanding health inequalities in Aotearoa New Zealand (pp. 97–106). Dunedin, New Zealand: Otago University Press.
Zarina Othman, (2009).  “Human Security Concepts, Debates and Approaches in Southeast Asia”. In G. Brauch, U.O. Spring, J. Grin, C. Mesjaz, P.K. Mbote, N.C. Behera, B. Chourou and H. Krummenacher (eds.), Facing Global Environmental Change: Environmental, Human, Energy, Food, Health and Water Security Concepts (Vol. 4),  Germany:  AFES-Springer Press, pp.1037-1048.
Newspaper/Magazines Article

Gunasegaran, P. 2006. Overworked students: give the kids chance to relax.  New Straits Times, 21 February: 20.
Hashnan Abdullah. 2006. Mangsa tragedy asrama runtuh selamat pulang.  Utusan Malaysia, 2 Februari: 3.

Online References
Crane, N. 1997. Electronic sources: MLA style of citation.http://www.uvm.edu/~ncrane/estyle/mla.html [31 Julai 2000].

Kawasaki, J.L. 1996. Computer administered surveys in extension. Journal of Extension  33(3): 204-210.  http://www.apa.org/journals/webref.html [18 November 1999].

Three authors:
Barnard, R., de Luca, R., & Li, J. (2015). First-year undergraduate students’ perceptions
of lecturer and peer feedback: A New Zealand action research project. Studies In Higher
Education, 40(5), 933–944. https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2014.881343
  Use "&" before the final author.

Four to seven authors:
Szcz Ę Sna, A., Nowak, A., Grabiec, P., Paszkuta, M., Tajstra, M., & Wojciechowska, M.
(2017). Survey of wearable multi-modal vital parameters measurement systems. Advances
in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 526. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47154
9_37
  List all authors in the reference entry

More than seven Authors:
Kasabov, N., Scott, N. M., Tu, E., Marks, S., Sengupta, N., Capecci, E., . . . Yang, J.
(2016). Evolving spatio-temporal data machines based on the NeuCube neuromorphic
framework: Design methodology and selected applications. Neural Networks, 78, 1-14.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neunet.2015.09.011
  First 6 authors ... last author. and follow by date and other information.










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