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Before you start

STEP 1: STARTING OUT

STEP 2: FINDING

STEP 3: EVALUATE

STEP 4: LEGAL USE

- Plagiarism

What is it?

What is a paper mill?

Consequences

Detection tools

- Copyright

SA copyright law

Practical tips

Own vs others work

- Quizz

STEP 5: COMMUNICATE

Copyright does not mean that you can't make use of other people's work in your assignments - you are actually encouraged to do this. You will learn a lot from other authors, especially from specialists in a specific field. Copyright means that you should use other people's work in the correct way. This includes giving credit to the origin of the information by referencing and adding a bibliography to your assignment. How to do referencing will be discussed in detail in step 5 of this course.

See the following example of how you can make use of someone else's work and combine it into your own conclusions and your own, new insight and knowledge!

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