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Avoid Plagiarism, or How to Successfully use the Works of Others: Quoting

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Quoting

Text is taken word-for-word from the original authors without changing the language or sentence structure.

How to use quotes

Original passage:

The current challenge is to simulate the time- and concentration dependent effects of irreversible inactivators, quasi-irreversible inhibitors and inducer compounds on the pharmacokinetics of well established probe substrates.

Source: Fowler, S., and Zhang, H. (2008) AAPS J. 10, 410-424.


Satisfactory quoting:

Fowler and Zhang (2008) stated that “the current challenge is to simulate the time- and concentration dependent effects of irreversible inactivators, quasi-irreversible inhibitors and inducer compounds on the pharmokinetics of well established probe substrates”.

Reference list

Fowler, S., and Zhang, H. (2008) AAPS J. 10, 410-424.


Plagiarized quoting:

The current challenge is to stimulate time and concentration dependent effects of irreversible inactivators, quasi-irreveresible inhibitors and inducer compounds on the pharmokinetics of well established probe substrates (Fowler, Zhang, 2008).

Reference

Fowler, S., and Zhang, H. (2008) AAPS J. 10, 410-424.

Why is the passage considered to be plagiarized?

  • Because: It does not have quotation marks, indicating the words belong to the origninal authors.
  • Solution: Add quotation marks.