NURS 5066 : Scholarly Writing and Plagiarism : Scholarly Writing is al

As a nurse embarking on an advanced degree, you are developing the characteristics of a scholar-practitioner, which includes strong communication skills. Writing in a scholarly manner involves supporting your thoughts with evidence from the literature and appropriately using APA formatting.
One of the challenges of scholarly writing is paraphrasing the thoughts of others in your work. Paraphrasing, and correctly citing the original author for his or her ideas, allows you to take the ideas of others, summarize them, and incorporate them into your own writing. When summarizing the ideas of others, it is important to avoid plagiarizing (copying the words and ideas of others as though they were your own). In addition to expanding your knowledge of APA, this week’s Learning Resources help you to distinguish between paraphrasing and plagiarizing.

To prepare:
Think about the sometimes subtle difference between plagiarizing and paraphrasing.
Read the following paragraphs, which were written by Patricia O’Conner:
A good writer is one you can read without breaking a sweat. If you want a workout, you don’t lift a book—you lift weights. Yet we’re brainwashed to believe that the more brilliant the writer, the tougher the going.
 
The truth is that the reader is always right. Chances are, if something you’re reading doesn’t make sense, it’s not your fault—it’s the writer’s. And if something you write doesn’t get your point across, it’s probably not the reader’s fault—it’s yours. Too many readers are intimidated and humbled by what they can’t understand, and in some cases that’s precisely the effect the writer is after. But confusion is not complexity; it’s just confusion. A venerable tradition, dating back to the ancient Greek orators, teaches that if you don’t know what you’re talking about, just ratchet up the level of difficulty and no one will ever know.
 

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Discussion

Scholarly writing is also referred to as the academic writing and it is writing the genre that is implemented in all the academic sectors. Taking an example of a nurse who is upgrading in his/her education, in the research done most of the work done involves paraphrasing. One needs to acquire the skills needed when paraphrasing so as to avoid affection and poor work due to plagiarism. Also, the nurse as a writer needs to be very keen so as he/she can deliver understanding to the reader.to achieve perfection in this some of the steps in paraphrasing needs to be used (Barrón-Cedeño et al,2013).

Recommendation

Paraphrasing alone cannot lead to 100% academic integrity that is required in scholarly writing .some tools such as free mind need to include to achieve the level of academic integrity required in writing.FreeMind helps the writer in converting the original work into his own work and avoid copying the already done work. Another tool is the use of Doecer which is said to be said to be the humble modification of the free mind. This tool helps the writer to organize, write and find academic literature. Other tools needed include bubbles and coggle.

Introduction:

Paraphrasing is the way of using a text in personal writing without quoting source material directly. In paraphrasing any time an information is taken one need to specify the origin of the information. The aim of paraphrase is to represent an already recorded information in new and summarized form. Paraphrasing develops some skill to the writer which helps him/her to curb the temptation to quote and also improves the mental process required for successful paraphrasing as the writer grasp the full meaning of the original information (Androutsopoulos & Malakasiotis, 2010).

For a writer to gain effectiveness in paraphrasing he/she must reread original information and gain comprehension of its meaning. After rereading a note card is generated and information described in anew and understandable form. Some examples of paraphrasing include; legitimate, an acceptable and plagiarized version. The ability to paraphrase can be said to be a skill of high value to every person and it’s not that every writer has the capability to paraphrase properly (Hirvela, 2013).

Plagiarism is referred to as the academic dishonesty and journalist’s ethics breach. Using the modern concepts plagiarism can be said to be immoral and originality .many of the written work is highly affected by the plagiarism and the work loses its originality.

Grammarly is an online tool which has facilitated to well neatness and makes the work of the writer more understandable. When paraphrasing the writer may use incorrect words and preposition but using the Grammarly tool the work becomes perfect and understandable

Importance of paraphrasing and avoiding plagiarism

As well-known paraphrasing is a tool that mostly is applied in scholarly writing. This a tool that requires skills in implementation as many writers are affected by plagiarism which leads to poor academic integrity. During paraphrasing, the writer should present the work researched in his/her own words. The paraphrased work should in a way portray originality. (Berant & Liang, 2014 ).

References:

Androutsopoulos, I., & Malakasiotis, P. (2010). A survey of paraphrasing and textual entailment methods. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 38, 135-187.

Berant, J., & Liang, P. (2014). Semantic parsing via paraphrasing. In Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) (Vol. 1, pp. 1415-1425).

Hirvela, A., & Du, Q. (2013). “Why am I paraphrasing?”: Undergraduate ESL writers' engagement with source-based academic writing and reading. Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 12(2), 87-98.

Barrón-Cedeño, A., Vila, M., Martí, M. A., & Rosso, P. (2013). Plagiarism meets paraphrasing: Insights for the next generation in automatic plagiarism detection. Computational Linguistics, 39(4), 917-947.