REPORTING AND THESIS WRITING
RESEARCH PLAGIARISM AND THESAURUS
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Stealing/Theft
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Changing a few words or borrowing an idea from someone else
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An Act of Fraud
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Using material without crediting the source or citing a source incorrectly
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Unethical Behavior
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Detailed explanation-1: -Explanation: Plagiarism is an act of stealing, because another person’s work is taken without permission and without giving the original writer due credit. It is fraud because the plagiarist is misrepresenting who created the work.
Detailed explanation-2: -Plagiarism is presenting work or ideas from another source as your own, with or without consent of the original author, by incorporating it into your work without full acknowledgement.
Detailed explanation-3: -Therefore, in our context, plagiarism is seen as a form of non-ethical behaviour that must be avoided by students.
Detailed explanation-4: -And contrary to the assertion that self-plagiarism is a victimless offense, it is actually damaging academic misconduct. Self-plagiarism in the form of duplicate publication wastes the time of colleagues by requiring multiple reviewers to review the same work for different publications.