下面是一位turnitin英文老师关于如何写论文的专业讲解，这里先摘取他是如何看待抄袭的。turnitin主要是用来检测论文抄袭的哦。
“抄袭”这词人人都听过，但究竟是个啥意思？其实，抄袭就是指明明引用了别人说过的话或是写过的句子，却不事先声明一下自己在引用，而是假装自己原创。就好比你写了句全世界人都知道的’To be or not to be, it is a problem.’ 在自己的文章里，但没有注明这是莎翁的句子，那就算作是抄袭啦！
为什么大家把“抄袭”这回事看的如此重要？
其实就是简单的不能再简单的原因啦，因为“抄袭”就是一种作弊。你可能有听说过哪个小伙伴的小伙伴顺利的逃过了学校的审查，抄袭没有被发现。然而这绝对是在铤而走险，绝对不要去尝试！绝对不要去尝试！绝对不要去尝试！（重要的话说三遍）每个大学都把抄袭这回事看的非常非常非常重要，都会用Turnitin系统去检查每篇论文抄袭的可能性。如果抄袭重复发生，学校是可能直接要求学生退学的（吓死宝宝了）！
写论文的时候关于“抄袭”得记得干啥？
最主要要做的事情，其实就是一定要记得合理安排你的写论文时间，并且永远记得要注明“引用”啦！很多时候很可惜的是，同学们忘记了要使用文章中引用，脚注，还有文献目录（今天文章的最后一段会具体解释这三项哦）。作为老师，我们是真心希望看到同学们为了写论文做了大量的阅读，所以希望你们可以把那些引用过的语句都标注出来，也方便我们正确合理的给你们论文打分啦。最好是能在写的时候就标记reference，并且归纳bibliography。而且现在很多网站都能帮大家规整，不妨试试。
下面是该英语老师的原话：
We've all heard the Plagiarism, but what does it really mean? Essentially, plagiarism refers to a student using statements made by others without referencing them. If you find yourself in the situation where you are trying to pretend that a piece of work is your own when it really is not, then that is considered plagiarism.
Why is it so serious?
Plagiarism is taken very seriously because it is simply a form of cheating. Now you may have heard stories about a ‘friend-of-a-friend’ escaping the watchful eye of their lecturers and universities, but consider this sheer luck and are likely to use Turnitin which detects any possible plagiarism from your submitted work. At worst, some may even consider removing a student from their programme of study or the university, if they repeatedly submit plagiarised work.
What should I remember?
The main thing to remember is to plan your time and reference appropriately. Unfortunately, plagiarism often occurs from students forgetting to use in-text citations, footnotes and bibliographies (this will be covered in the last section). We lecturers do want you to showcase your wide reading and therefore want you to include referenced arguments made by experts. It would be easier if you could mark the references whilst you are writing the essay, and consolidate the bibliography after finish writing. Nowadays, many reference generating servises are available online, you may would like to have a try.
