User talk:Reypenate620

This user is a student editor in Miami_Dade_College/FYE_Seminar_(Spring) .

You have an overdue training assignment.[edit]

Please complete the assigned training modules. --Angang22 (talk) 12:15, 3 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome![edit]

Hello, Reypenate620, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Shalor and I work with the Wiki Education Foundation; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

I hope you enjoy editing here. If you haven't already done so, please check out the student training library, which introduces you to editing and Wikipedia's core principles. You may also want to check out the Teahouse, a community of Wikipedia editors dedicated to helping new users. Below are some resources to help you get started editing.

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Choosing an article to edit Editing an article • Add images to articles Citing sources on Wikipedia
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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:24, 5 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Review Training:Possible plagiarism[edit]

Please review training materials below:

https://dashboard.wikiedu.org/training/students/sources https://dashboard.wikiedu.org/training/students/plagiarism — Preceding unsigned comment added by Angang22 (talk • contribs) 13:12, 19 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Plagiarism[edit]

Hello, I received a notification that you had posted content that had previously been published elsewhere. This is seen as a copyright issue and plagiarism, even if you were to include the original source as a citation. Always be careful when writing article content - a good way to avoid doing this is to take notes while reading and write your article from those notes. Even if this was in the draftspace, you still need to make sure that you avoid posting content taken from elsewhere. Also be careful about close paraphrasing, as this is also seen as plagiarism.

Unless the material is explicitly marked as falling into the public domain or was released under a compatible Creative Commons license, it should be assumed that the content is copyrighted in a way that would prohibit it from being used verbatim elsewhere. It's always best to write things in your own words, as this can help prevent issues like this from arising. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 13:35, 19 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Notes[edit]

Hi! I wanted to drop you a note about writing styles. Wikipedia uses a fairly formal writing style, so make sure that you avoid writing too casually. Don't use words like "you" or "I", as this is seen as too casual. Also, when citing sources, try to steer clear of studies unless you have a secondary source that discusses the study. The reason for this is that studies are primary sources for the conclusions and research created by the authors. The journal does give editorial oversight, but they only check for major issues with the paper and don't actually give any sort of discussion about the study, nor do they reproduce the study. Secondary sources help resolve these issues.

Finally, when citing sources, each source should have its own ref tags, <ref>...</ref>. You shouldn't have more than one source per set. Offhand I'd recommend using VisualEditor since that makes it a lot easier to cite sources. If this has been disabled on your account, you can re-enable it via the prior link. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 01:50, 30 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]