Md - plagiarism takes on a number of forms. It is related to breaches of academic integrity. The most common forms are:
1. Passing off work i.e. 'cutting and pasting' from the internet as your own - when it is not. This is especially so - when there is no acknowledgement of the original source and/or authors of the material.
2. Inadequate 'para-phrasing'. This is where you might cite the source of your material - but you still 'cut-and-paste' - and just change a few words to give the appearance that it is different material you are presenting.
The most commonly used 'plagiarism' tool is TURNITIN. It is not just a punitive tool to 'catch out cheats' - it is also a valuable tool to help you submit drafts and re-draft them so that the final draft avoids the issue of plagiarism.
The two previous colleagues have summed it up rather comprehensively. My only addition would be that plagiarising is also an issue even if you "did not know" or "did not mean to".
There is of course software to check on plagiarism and in lieu of that "interviews" of students suspected of academic misconduct.
To avoid such a profound literatue research is inevitable to check if your ideas have been around before. Crediting someone elses work does not make you weak but shows you know your topic and are mature enough to contextualise and "use" it correctly.
Kind Regards
Roland
Copy, cut, and paste someone else's work/idea, but not acknowledge them in terms of citation. Rather, the text is left as though it's your own idea.
To add to the answers above, you can avoid plagiarism by making sure that you always cite where a particular idea or piece of information has come from, even if you have put it in your own words. For example "Smith tells us that..." Hope that helps. The key rule is ALWAYS use CITATION
Plagiarism is the act of taking another person's writing, conversation, song, or even idea and passing it off as your own. This includes information from web pages, books, songs, television shows, email messages, interviews, articles, artworks or any other medium. Whenever you paraphrase, summarize, or take words, phrases, or sentences from another person's work, it is necessary to indicate the source of the information within your paper using an internal citation. It is not enough to just list the source in a bibliography at the end of your paper. Failing to properly quote, cite or acknowledge someone else's words or ideas with an internal citation is plagiarism.
http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/plag/whatisplag.php
Dear Rahman
Plagiarism is taking other works and present as yours. There are many software for checking this issue. Most of them are free as a trial version with limited capacities and the best one ever of them is "turn in it".
Regards,
Plagiarism is willing or unwilling copying of a previously published work without referencing it. Plagiarism is considered very bad practice in academia and plagiarists are usually punished. Plagiarism detection is an area of research used for identifying plagiarists. There are two types of plagiarism detection. 1) External and 2) Intrinsic. .............https://researchpedia.info/what-is-plagiarism/@
Plagiarism is passing off someone else’s work, whether intentionally, or unintentionally, as your own for your own benefit.
Reference:
Carroll, J. (2002). A Handbook for Deterring Plagiarism in Higher Education. Oxford: Oxford Centre for Staff and Learning Development.
this file is very usifule for your question ; Article Plagiarism in research
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