"Plagiarism • Examples of the practices which are considereddishonest include: – Copying some or all of another student’sthesis/dissertation without acknowledgement. – Copying from textbooks, journal articles, websites or othercopyrighted materials without acknowledgement. – Recycling reports, theses, dissertations or portions oftheses/dissertations from students from earlier years. – Fabrication of data. – Engaging another person to complete an assessment orexamination. 37How to paraphrase? 1. Read the text carefully - you may need to read the textseveral times, and check the meaning of terms you donot understand in a dictionary. 2. Identify and underline the key words and main ideasin the text, and write these ideas down. 3. Consider these points as a whole and your purposefor using this information in relation to the structure ofyour assignment. You may be able to group the ideasunder your own headings, and arrange them in adifferent sequence to the original text. 38How to paraphrase? 4. Think about the attitude of the author, i.e. critical,supportive, certain, uncertain. Think about appropriatereporting verbs you could use to describe this attitude. 5. Think of words or phrases which mean roughly the sameas those in the original text. Remember, if the key wordsare specialised vocabulary for the subject, they do notneed to be changed. (see Using synonyms below.) 6. Using your notes from the above steps, draft yoursummary or paraphrase. 7. When you have finished your draft re-read the originaltext and compare it to your paraphrase or summary toensure you retained the same meaning/attitude.39Activity (1): Exercise on Paraphrasing Individually, apply the process identified in the previoussheets and paraphrase this paragraph then compare your10work with your peers minutes This paper sits at the intersection of law, urbanstudies, professional practice and alternative disputeresolution. All four need to successfully interact inorder both to settle disputes and to reduce thelikelihood of disputes arising that are costly both interms of human and material waste. There remainsrelatively little theorising about why and howmediation and participation might contribute toproperty disputes. (Ceno and Reed, 2015) 40"