Week 32

Understand Plagiarism to Avoid Liability

Did you know, your team may be posting plagiarized content on your website and they don’t even know it? Most people know that copying someone else’s writing verbatim is plagiarism, but there are less obvious forms that can create liability for your firm, such as paraphrasing or following inspiration articles too closely in structure and sentiment.

Here are seven ways to avoid plagiarism:

1. Write in your own words.

2. Put quotation marks around verbatim copy.

3. Give credit to the original source even when paraphrasing.

4. Include links to the original source.

5. Include sources for all data, charts, and graphs that are not proprietary to you.

6. Use footnotes.

7. Use a plagiarism checker like Grammarly to make sure you, your team, and your freelancers aren’t accidentally plagiarizing.