Questions tagged [plagiarism]
Plagiarism is the practice of taking credit for someone else’s work.
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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Question on whether I have committed plagiarism (modifying paragraphs from an unpublished document sent as email attachment for PhD thesis)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 ...
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Is plagiarism with consent recommended?
I need to submit an assignment and I need to copy some part of my friends thesis with his consent because I do not have enough time to write in my own words. Another issue is that his thesis is not ...
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Do professors have to cite references in their Powerpoints? And what if data is manipulated to make PPT more “current”?
When I was taking my gen-ed classes for nursing school (anatomy, microbiology, etc), I could go to the end of the professor's Powerpoint and click on any of the references if I wanted to find out more ...
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Co-Author is asking me to remove abstract submission of paper
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I am a master's student working with a professor and PhD student. They provided me with an initial research direction, to solve problem A. To achieve that research goal, I identified a ...
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How should I feel about a professor using an entire online course for his own course?
I'm taking a machine learning class at a school in South Korea. I've heard some good and bad things about this professor in particular, but I didn't really know until I actually took his course.
I've ...
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When summarizing my sources methodology for my literature review, must I add a citation?
My professor told me to critically summarize and evaluate each work (for its premise, methodology, and conclusion) I am including in my Literature Review. I understand that I should provide in-text ...
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Citation in examination
In a course, the professor sets an open book exam with the restriction that students can use only class notes and textbook in any electronic device(mobile, laptop, etc). In short, no internet during ...
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Is taking a sentence in English language and reformulate in french, a plagiarism
I am writing my PHD thesis in french, sometimes I took some sentences, phrases from english references and try to rewriting them in french so that the meaning is close.
Is this a plagiarism?
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What to do about advisor with history of possible plagiarism?
Recently, my MS advisor instructed me to submit a conference paper. They outlined what this paper would include, which would be a simulation study that is a near duplication of a ten-year-old ...
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Takehome Exam Plagarism Help
I was writing a take home exam where I was allowed to use notes. I copy-pasted some of my lecture slide show into one of the answers, to speed up the process of referring between my notes and the ...
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What should you do if you learn after posting a paper to Arxiv that it is not a novel idea?
Consider the following scenario:
Assume you try to publish a paper in a journal, but before sending the paper, you place the paper on Arxiv.
Then, the journal rejects the paper because of it lacks ...
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Can you plagiarize a solution to a math problem? [closed]
I've been accused of plagiarising an answer to a math problem. The incompetent professor pulled a problem off the internet, aka googled it. We had an open note, open book, open everything exam. I ...
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If lab partners form a hypthothesis together and write the same hypothesis worded differently, is that considered plagiarism?
My bio lab TA seems to think that lab partners cannot have the same hypotheses. My partners and I formed the hypotheses together, then we individually wrote them down our own ways. Now she's claiming ...
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How to explain a physics mechanism that I study from other paper in my report while avoiding plagiarism?
As I understand about writing a research project report or master thesis report, it must be complete, self-sufficient. The readers can understand the report/book by reading it thoroughly without the ...
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Citing an unpublished paper? plagiarism?
Here is the situation: I am working with 2 others on a paper A, and simultaneously by myself separately on a paper B (which is a thesis).
A and B are on very much similar topics.
I started with ...
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How do I cite a source from a another source? [duplicate]
Suppose I'm writing an article about topic X. During research I come across a related article in which the author has made statement Y and referenced publication Z. For one reason or another, I haven'...
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Professor does not care about cheating, what should TA do?
I am a PhD student, working as a Homework marking TA in a school where cheating is extremely blatant. The university has an extremely strict policy against cheating. Hundreds of students in math ...
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What can I do when some people stole my master thesis work and published it as their own work?
Google scholar suggested a paper for me to read, I opened it and boom it was my master thesis work. My work was based on Arabic language but they claim their work is based on Telugu language. Even ...
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Why are journals telling me that my article is plagiarized even though I wrote it by myself?
Recently, I wrote an article, and I'm trying to submit it somewhere, but two journals told me that my article is plagiarized even up to 70%!
I'm 100% sure that it's not plagiarized because I wrote ...
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What should I do if someone published my old reserarch result without mentioning my name?
Recently, I realized someone, who was my friend in the past, published my research results related to an old project without mentioning my name. I'm wondering how he accessed to my results and why he ...
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Responding to papers which reinvent ideas without citing them
A few months ago a very well-known (and controversial) authority in my field published a theoretical model of a phenomenon that one of my collaborators addressed many years ago. Interestingly, the ...
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Is Self-plagiarism allowed in two submitted articles by one author?
Is it allowed that someone use the same paragraph in two submitted articles for two different journals? Note: both of these articles are unpublished still so it's not possible to cite one in another ...
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How can I tell if software solutions to my labs are posted online?
I just had a student inform me that software solutions to my labs (I teach a course in microcontrollers using the ATmega328P) is available on Chegg. She was uncomfortable giving me any further details....
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Is it plagiarism to submit the same work in a course after withdrawing from the course on a previous occasion?
I took a course a couple years ago and was doing well until I could not attend any longer and abruptly had to stop. I am currently retaking the course and wanted to hand in the work I submitted years ...
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Students plagiarising assignments: What level is worth the effort of pursuing?
As a tutor marking assignments, I regularly come across cases of plagiarism. As someone who put a lot of effort into my coursework studies it really offends me to see what students think they can (and ...
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My original data is in someone else's thesis without my knowledge or consent
I encountered in a Master's thesis some of my original and important findings. I finished my experiments and left the lab to home to write and while I was writing my supervisor put my data into ...
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Is paraphrasing Jack's sentence considered plagiarism, given I cite the original author Z?
I have a specific question. I am working on my academic paper.
I came across this unpublished paper online written by a PhD student. Although, his topic is different, some parts of his paper relates ...
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Can I copy parts of a glossary verbatim in my thesis?
My thesis uses domain language of a (software) project that needs to be precisely defined because those words are ambiguous in the "natural" English language. This software project hosts a glossary ...
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Can anyone reach my thesis that is scanned through turnitin? [closed]
I will submit my thesis as an assignment on turnitin. So, I wonder whether anyone can reach my thesis? In that case, what should I have to do to prevent it?
