Santosh Kumar Kori Librarian Govt. College Makronia , Sagar M.P. 1
What is Plagiarism The word plagiarism comes in 17 th century from latin plagiarius means “ kidneper ”. vigj.k Plagiarism is the act of presenting the words, idea, images, sounds, or the creative expression of others as your own. Plagiarism is a academic theft by doing intentionally or unintentionally. 2
Definitions According to the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, to “plagiarize” means 1) to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own 2) to use (another's production) without crediting the source. 3) to commit literary theft. 4) to present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source. 3
Most Common form of Plagiarism in the writing The Ghost Writer: making a copy of another work’s word for word and verbatim to this without being of citing the original document. The photocopy writer: to make copy of significant portion of another writing from one and single source without modification and acknowledgement to the source used. The Potluck paper writer: attempt of copying from serval other source with a few changes have made of paragraphs and sentences retaining most of the original phrasing. The self Stealer writer: borrows idea generously from own previously work and common threat to all above not putting the original source. 4
Types of Plagiarism Direct Plagiarism: Direct plagiarism is the word –for-word transcript of a section of someone else’s work, without attribution and without question marks. Self Plagiarism: Self Plagiarism occurs when a student submits his or her own previous work, or mixes parts of previous works, without permission from all faculty members involved. 5
Mosaic plagiarism: Mosaic Plagiarism occurs when a student borrows phrases from a source without using quotation mark, or find synonyms for the author’s language while keeping to the same general structure and meaning of the original. “It is also know as know as patch writing. Accidental Plagiarism: Accidental Plagiarism Occurs when a person neglects to cite their sources, or misquotes. 6
Why Professionals/Students Plagiarize Not enough time to complete the assignment ( procrastination, poor time management skills, or a busy schedule outside of School or College can all contribute to this). Laziness. Lack of fundamental research skill (be aware that some plagiarism is inadvertent). Careless research method (e.g. falling to document sources used during the research process). A fear that one’s own academic abilities are not adequate, leading one to seek a superior product. Perceived pressure from external force (parents, friends, scholarship committees, etc.) to maintain high grades. 7
Plagiarism Detection Software The anti-plagiarism software enables scanning of documents against billions of online sources such as web pages, local databases, databases of journals and periodicals and online scholarly publications and similarity is generated to estimate the percentages of match's. The software tool matches a eight to ten words. When it finds the text matching files that share enough word to share in a number of phrases, a report generated which contain the document text with the matching phrases underline of highlighted. 8
Anti Plagiarism software there is many free and commercial software: Turnitin - Commercial Software URKUND - Commercial Software i-Thenciate - Commercial Software Cross Check - Online Free Wcopy Find - Open source windows-based Word-Check - Online Free EVE - Commercial Software 9
Academic integrity Academic integrity supports the enactment of educational values through behaviors such as the avoidance of cheating , plagiarism , and contract cheating , as well as the maintenance of academic standards ; honesty and rigor in research and academic publishing. ‘the expectation that teachers, students, researchers and all members of the academic community act with: honesty, trust, fairness, respect and responsibility .’ 11
University Grants Commission (Promotion of Academic Integrity and Prevention of Plagiarism in Higher Educational Institutions) Regulations, 2017 Published in Gazette of lndia , Part III, Section 4 (Extraordinary)] Objectives 3.1 To create academic awareness about responsible conduct of research, study, project work, assignment, thesis, dissertation, promotion of academic integrity- and prevention of misconduct including plagiarism in academic writing among students, researchers, faculty and other members of academic staff as well as any employee of HEIs. 12
3.2 To establish institutional mechanism through education and training to facilitate responsible conduct of research, study, project work, assignment, thesis, dissertation, promotion of academic integrity and deterrence from plagiarism. 3.3.To develop systems to detect plagiarism and to set up mechanisms to prevent plagiarism and punish a student, faculty, or staff of HEI committing the act of plagiarism. 3.4.To develop systems to detect plagiarism and to set up mechanisms to prevent plagiarism and punish a student, faculty, or staff of HEI committing the act of plagiarism. 13
Duties of HEI: Every HEI should establish the mechanism as prescribed in these regulations to enhance awareness about responsible conduct of research and academic activities, promotion of integrity and deterrence from plagiarism. Awareness Programmers' and Trainings. Curbing Plagiarism. Similarity checks for exclusion from Plagiarism. Zero Tolerance Policy in core area. 14
Levels of Plagiarism in non-core areas. For all other (non-core)cases, plagiarism would be quantified into following levels in ascending order of severity for the purpose of its definition: Similarities up to 10% .- excluded Level 1: Similarities above 10% to 40% Level 2: Similarities above 40% to 60% Level 3: Similarities above 60% 15
Detection/Reporting/Handling of Plagiarism Academic Misconduct Panel (AMP) Plagiarism Disciplinary Authority (PDA) Penalties: Penalties in the cases of plagiarism shall be imposed on students pursuing studies at the level of UG, PG, Masters, M. Phil., Ph.D. and faculty &staff of the HEI only. 16
(a) Penalties for Students Plagiarism Disciplinary Authority (PDA) of the HEI, based on recommendations of the Academic Misconduct Panel (AMP), shall impose penalty considering the severity of the Plagiarism. Level 1: Similarities above 10% to 40%- Such student shall not be given any mark and/or credit for the plagiarized script and shall be asked to submit a revised script within a stipulated time period not exceeding 6 months. ii. Level 2: Similarities above 40% to 60% - Such student shall not be given any mark and/or credit for the plagiarized script and shall be asked to submit a revised script after a time period of one year but not exceeding eighteen months. iii. Level 3: Similarities above 60% -Such student shall not be given any mark and/or credit for the plagiarized script and his/her registration for that course to be cancelled. 17
(b) Penalties for faculty, staff, researcher of HEI ( i ) Level 1 : Similarities above 10% to 40% - Shall be asked to withdraw manuscript submitted for publication and shall not be allowed to publish any work for a minimum period of one year. (ii) Level 2: Similarities above 40% to 60% - shall be asked to withdraw manuscript submitted for publication and shall not be allowed to publish any work for a minimum period of two years and shall be denied a right to one annual increment and shall not be allowed to be a supervisor to any UG, PG, Master's, M'Phil ., Ph.D ' student/scholar for a period of two years. (iii) Level 3: Similarities above 60% - shall be asked to withdraw manuscript submitted for publication and shall not be allowed to publish any work for a minimum I period of three years and shall be denied a right to two successive annual increments and shall not be allowed to be a supervisor to any UG, PG, Master's, M.phil. , Ph.D. student/scholar for a period of three years. 18
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