How to Write Successful Business and Management Essays by patrick tissington markus hasel

Author:patrick tissington, markus hasel
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-07-10T16:00:00+00:00

Example 1

Historically, personality tests were not a popular selection tool. They were complex, expensive to train on, or would require a psychologist to administer and interpret. The evidence of their criterion validity suggested at best a very modest relationship between test scores on personality tests and work performance.

Sounds good, doesn’t it? The knowledge we have on personality tests, nicely put into a critical summary. The problem is that these are not really our own words. You might be asking yourself, ‘if I did not know these weren’t his words, how will a marker know which ones are my own words?’ They will, believe me. Markers are quite likely to be lecturers, doctoral researchers and professors who are very familiar with the literature; maybe because they are teaching the subject or it is their research area, or in many cases, both. Frequently it is the manner in which theories, findings and arguments are conveyed that alerts them to plagiarism. A certain language, phrase structure and grammar distinguish professional and expert writing from student writing. You will notice this difference after reading a number of professional reports and scientific articles and books.

In order to avoid plagiarism, you need to paraphrase the above text from a textbook by Fincham and Rhodes:

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