Questions tagged [plagiarism]
Plagiarism is the practice of taking credit for someone else’s work.
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plagiarism and transcription of audio recordings
Does it count as plagiarism if a student pays a professional transcription service to transcribe an audio recording of a social science interview/focus group for the appendix of their written ...
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My research paper has been stolen on pretext of a book publication deal? What can I do?
I submitted my paper to a supposed editor for publication in a book.
He never responded to the emails post my submission of the paper and upon contacting others from the mailing list I found out that ...
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Journal refuses to call near verbatim copies plagiarism
Recently I came across a paper on a topic I'm interested in. I started reading the paper and realized this was a later version of a paper I reviewed roughly 6 months prior. That paper was rejected ...
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Plagiarism of former supervisors copying from my master thesis
I graduated a couple of years ago performing a master thesis with two supervisors. They both were happy about it and wanted to write a paper from my thesis, including me as author, but after my ...
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Third violation of Academic Integrity Policy [closed]
Not sure if this happend to anyone, but it is my first I ever recieved this notice. I have this professor and like to be called Dr., who hasn't been very understanding. I've been turning my work in on ...
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Paraphrasing common knowledge/phrases
First example: "Ronald Reagan was born in Illinois." (found in multiple sources)
Does this mean that I can never use this exact phrase, since it's in multiple sources? Naturally, I wouldn't cite this ...
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Student found guilty of plagiarism is also academic at other university
I am an administrator of a university in U.K. A student has been found guilty of plagiarism and is facing the harshest punishment – 0 in the course and no opportunity to retake which will get him ...
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A friend helped me with a presentation – plagiarism or not?
My friend helped me with my assignment. I was having a bit of trouble and he showed me what he did.
The assignment was a speech with a powerpoint in the background.
I did not receive any help in the ...
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Is “inadequate referencing” a euphemism for plagiarism?
I am aware of a professor, who wrote two published books that had to be corrected. On the publisher's website it states that these two books had been corrected due to "inadequate referencing". Is ...
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advisor seems to have taken my work
I'm a PhD student, and my advisor published what appears to be the theoretical frame I came up with for my dissertation as a standalone paper with some other people (not me). It seems (to me, though ...
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My teammate submitted plagiarized code in a group project [closed]
In our class, we have a team project for 3 people. One of my teammates submitted plagiarized code and got caught, which result in my team receiving no credit for the whole project. Then the student ...
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Plagiarism of code by other PhD student
Abit about my background first: I'm currently undertaking a PhD but have previously worked in healthcare for around 4-5 years. During this time I developed a suite of code to produce results from ...
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Is it okay to use somebody else’s methodology in my own paper (with proper citations) or is this plagiarism?
My research is a content analysis about portrayal of mental illness in films. The research I wanted to base my methodology is also about mental-illness representation. My research questions differ to ...
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Are accepted papers going to be plagiarism checked?
here's my friend's situation, he submitted a journal paper then gave up after some time and thought it's going to be rejected after a few rejections in an open access journal,he put some parts (as it ...
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Can I write the same text in method section in two different project?
I am working on two projects now and both of them have similar methods. What if I write the same text in the method part? Will it be count as plagiarism? I am almost finished working on them and both ...
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Student accused of Plagarism
A former student of mine asked for advise. This student has been accused of cheating on an assignment. By their account, approximately 8% of their project is nearly identical to a partial solution ...
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Identical projects by students at two different colleges: still plagiarism?
Me and my friend attend different colleges, both of which are part of the same university. My friend has done the project and as well as me too. Our projects are exactly the same - not a single word ...
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An undergraduate said they may hire a freelancer to do their work for them. What should I do?
I, a graduate student, have started tutoring undergraduates in computer science at my university to help make ends meet. One student who inquired about my services turned me down upon hearing my rates ...
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Is it wise to upload all the publshed research works to the Standard Paper Repository of Turnitin?
My organization is using Turnitin software and I am the Administrator. Will it be a wise decision to upload all our published research works to the Standard Paper Repository of the software in order ...
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Avoiding plagiarism without citing every sentence
To truly avoid any allegation of plagiarism, one would separately cite every sentence whose idea has been taken from elsewhere. In my field though, many journal editors will not accept this amount of ...
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Are not published workshop papers considered in similarity check for an extended journal paper?
I am going to submit my journal paper in 2 weeks. Besides, there is a workshop whose deadline is in a couple of days. I am going to submit a brief version of my potential journal paper (12 pages) in ...
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Why is plagiarising words such a big deal?
Plagiarising the ideas of others is obviously a big deal. You are stealing the hard work of others and misleading your peers by pretending it is your original work.
But why is plagiarising words and ...
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How to deal with my results being stolen?
I have experienced a couple of times the following problem: I have asked another researcher to cooperate and provided mathematical results (as a basis for an algorithm). The cooperation has not ...
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Someone copied my assignment without my knowledge but I am now accused of directly assisting them to copy my work
Someone copied my solution to an assignment without my knowledge, and now I'm accused of directly assisting them by allowing them to copy my work. I was given a formal written warning.
How do I prove ...
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When to give up seeking justice after you've been plagiarized?
I found that a Ph.D. student, recently graduated, plagiarized over a dozen passages from a book I based on my own Ph.D. dissertation of some years ago.
Their dissertation is on the Internet, which is ...
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About legality on self-plagiarism when publishing an article
I found out that a collegue published about 5 years ago a paper in the proceedings of a conference about education in engineering (proceedings has ISBN, but publication has no DOI, in case that ...
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Politicians and other students caught in plagiarism?
This is something I don't understand: how come many degrees have been revoked due to plagiarism after approval if Turnitin and many other software against plagiarism exist?
For example, there was a ...
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Is referencing a technical report in an improper format plagiarism?
Suppose someone uses a report such as technical report in an article or school work, but in the references at the end of document they just reference it like:
Author A, Author B, title, year
I.e., ...
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Citing, Secondary Source [duplicate]
My question is about citing. I found two sectences that were cited in a review article (first sentence[1], extra information about it[2]. Second sentence [3]). And after that i found the original ...
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May they delay for a long time the decision of a submitted manuscript of someone that already sent a paper which didn't pass plagiarism check?
As I already shared in this question, I have submitted a paper in January
of the last year to a high-rank journal and they decided on my paper with reject and resubmit. I worked very very hard and ...
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Can i copy a slide from another presentation or is it plagiarism?
For my seminar work i want to use a slide which i found in a presentation available on the internet. Now i wonder whether it is considered plagiarism if i copy the slide into my presentation while ...
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My master’s thesis’ results will be published without my consent. What should I do?
Last year I finished my master’s. I spent the whole year working on experiments for my master's thesis. Part of the results I obtained were published in my master’s thesis, which was submited via an ...
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Is it possible for research paper to have a similarity of 2 out of 100 using iThenticate?
I'm involved in TPC (technical program committee) task for some international conference. In one paper I'm reviewing, I noticed that the similarity index is just 2% using iThenticate which seems ...
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Wrong information in my thesis
At the beginning im so sorry about what i did. But in literature review of the introduction part of my thesis i realized that i made a mistake :(
It is about giving state-of-the-art part of my study ...
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Is it type of a plagiarism?
I have a question about plagiarism: are these two sentences plagiarised versions of each other?
In a cited paper, it says:
This paper describes the design for a novel passive mechanical knee-ankle ...
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Question on whether I have committed plagiarism (modifying paragraphs from an unpublished document sent as email attachment for PhD thesis)
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My colleague and I are both PhD students (My colleague started about 8 months after me) from the same research group (and share the same PhD supervisor) in a UK university. We were ...
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Unintentional Plagiarism in my Masters Thesis
About four months ago I graduated from a reputable university and received great feedback from the committee who judged my masters defense as well as my thesis. Prior to my defense, I was asked to ...
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Do you need to cite generalizations in introductory paragraphs and topic sentences?
Suppose Jack Smith writes an article proving that Renaissance ideology can exist in the modern era through technology, and that this proves that the ideology can be reconceptualized in other regards, ...
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Can you plagiarize a fact- or evidence-based, objective conclusion/claim?
Suppose a secondary source proves that poverty was rampant in the Middle Ages by using a variety of primary sources (or statistics from other secondary sources). If years after reading this secondary ...
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Is this considered plagiarism? [closed]
So I submitted my work to my professor, he graded it and told me to make changes. I am submitting the same project to the same professor, however to make the changes I am writing in a new doc. I want ...
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Is verbatim copying a data collection plan with citation considered plagiarism?
Cheers, I am writing a thesis using secondary data and need to report on the sampling methods used to collect the data. Am I allowed to verbatim state what is listed in the study documentation? It is ...
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Code plagiarism by teacher at renowned university [duplicate]
As a post-graduate student at a renowned university, I am supposed to make an assignment (see attached images) which is obviously inspired on this licensed scikit tutorial.
Since the assignment (code)...
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My advisor's new student copied parts of my PhD thesis; advisor doesn't care. What to do?
I wrote my PhD thesis a few years back. After I finished, my supervisor found another researcher and continued research with the apparatus I built, but along a different line of study. I met this ...
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Offline (!) similarity/plagiarism detection tool [closed]
Can anyone please suggest an offline similarity check software which could work with a custom database of PDF or text files? Motivation: I have lots of previous reports from students (these are not ...
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Feeling regret for sending my code to my classmate
As an international student, I found hard to integrate well with other classmates. I only have two relatively close friends in my class. When my classmate asked me to send my code to him, I did not ...
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Can I reuse parts of a chapter from a text book in my thesis?
This question is related to this one. Only this time it's not about a journal paper but a chapter in a text book.
I am first author of the chapter in the text book that was published by a renowned ...
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Will Potential Publishers View an MA Dissertation as Plagiarized?
I recently completed my MA, and I was hoping to upload my dissertation to Academia.edu, and then perhaps submit it to some publishers later on. Although I made some changes to my paper after ...
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Is it self-plagiarism to repurpose a government report into a journal article?
I wrote a report to the state department of transportation for a research project they sponsored. Can I use the same texts/paragraphs from the report to write journal articles? In other words, does it ...
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Am I wrong to believe teachers can commit plagiarism? [closed]
This evening, my senior in high school daughter came home upset because of a bad score on a test in an AP class. The particular questions were extremely esoteric Bloom level 1 questions (e.g., how ...
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How to properly cite when using most of the text verbatim
I'm currently teaching a calculus course and I want to create a project in which we analyse different population growth models using the tools we've learned so far. With this in mind I found a great ...
