PLAGIARISM IS EASY, BUT IT IS ALSO EASY TO DETECT

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PLAGIARISM  IS  EASY,  BUT  IT  IS  ALSO 
EASY  TO DETECT

• By
• Richa Tripathi
• S. Kumar

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INTRODUCTION

• Plagiarism is an issue of great concern to in
  academic faculty. Plagiarism is a moral, ethical,
  and legal issue. Plagiarism has been around for
  centuries, but the Internet and the subsequent
  proliferation of information have made the
  problem more serious. Plagiarism is in all walks
  of life. 
• Plagiarism is taking someone else's work and
  passing it off as one's own.
• Many people think of plagiarism as copying
  another's work, or borrowing someone else's
  original ideas. But terms like "copying" and
  "borrowing" can disguise the seriousness of the
  offence

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All of the following are  considered plagiarism

• Turning in someone else's work as your own.
• Copying words or ideas from someone else without
  giving credit.
• Failing to put a quotation in quotation marks
• Giving incorrect information about the source of
  a quotation
• Changing words but copying the sentence structure
  of a source without giving credit
• Copying so many words or ideas from a source that
  it makes up the majority of your work, whether
  you give credit or not .

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TYPES OF PLAGIARISM

• Sources Not Cited
• The Ghost Writer
• The Photocopy
• The Potluck Paper
• The Poor Disguise
• The Labor of Laziness
• The Self-Stealer

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Sources Cited (But Still Plagiarized)

• The Forgotten Footnote
• The Misinformer
• The Too-Perfect Paraphrase
• The Resourceful Citer
• The Perfect Crime

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OTHER TYPES OF PLAGIARISM

• Copy and Paste Plagiarism
• Word Switch Plagiarism
• Metaphor Plagiarism
• Idea Plagiarism
• Reasoning Style/Organization Plagiarism
• Data Plagiarism

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ANTI-PLAGIRISM TOOLS
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• CopyCatch Gold
• EduTie.com
• EVE2 Essay Verification Engine
• Glatt Plagiarism Program
• Google
• Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)
• Electronic Plagiarism
  Detection
• JISC Plagiarism Advisory Service

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• Jplag
• Library Electronic Databases
• Moss
• Plagiarism.org
• The Plagiarism Resource Site
• PlagiServe
• Turnitin
• WordCHECK

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HOW TO AVOIDE PLAGIARISM

• Another person's idea, opinion, or theory.
• Any facts, statistics, graphs, drawings, any
  pieces of information that are not common
  knowledge.
• Quotations of another person's actual spoken or
  written words.
• Paraphrase of another person's spoken or written
  words.

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SCIENTIFIC PLAGIRISM IN INDIASome Instances

• Prof. B.S. Rajput controversy
• Gopal Kundu controversy
• Prof. K. Kumar controversy
• Anna University controversy
• Prof Adhikary Controversy
• Dr. Kamlakar Singh Case

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CONCLUSION

• In india, in absence of database of theses and
  dissertations,it is easy to plagarise them from
  one university to anther and even in the same
  university. Plagiarism in project work is common
  and difficult to detect. I come acoross unique
  form of plagarism where photocopies M.L.I.Sc
  dissertation have been used by another college in
  the different years.Also in the case in many
  other subjects Ph.D. theses are also alleged  to
  use plagarism practices.  In another kind, Ph.D.
  theses include word toword translation from
  English to Hindi of a book in most of its
  chapter. India require an antiplagirism policy in
  academic and develop its own anti plagirism
  software. with the above discussion it is clear
  that if plagiarism is easy the tools to detect
  the plagiarism are also avaliable easly. Beware
  and avoid plagiarism otherwise you may be another
  example being quoted "XYZ Controversy."

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SUGGESSIONS

• Preparation of data bases of thesis for Ph.D
  submitted to universities.
• Compulsory submission of Electronic copy in a
  data base of the UGC which should be open before
  award so that any one can detect plagirism
  bring to the universities.
• Prepration of data bases of articles published in
  conferences journals in India which are not
  covered international database.
• Taking an affidavit from the candidate regarding
  no use of plagirised material

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