Technical Communication for Engineers

What is Plagiarism-01?

Dr. Arun K. Saraf,

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 What is Plagiarism?
Plagiarism is an act of fraud as it involves copying,

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borrowing or stealing someone else’s work and
presenting as your own.

Simple definition
Plagiarism is the use of someone else's work or ideas
without giving them proper credit.

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Definition of plagiarism (According to the Oxford Dictionary)

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The practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing
them off as one's own.
Origin of the word plagiarism is from the word “plagiarius”
meaning “kidnapper, plunderer..”

A recent research has revealed that nearly 30% of pages that

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• It can involve using words, ideas, or information from a
source without citing it correctly.
• Plagiarism can also involve using another person's design,

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art, or music as one's own without acknowledging the
author or obtaining their permission.

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• Plagiarism has almost certainly been with us since the dawn of
language and art.
• As long as there have been words to repeat and art to copy, it
stands to reason someone was doing so.

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• The act of taking credit for the work of others is undoubtedly old
as time.
• The word “plagiarism” comes from the Latin word for
“kidnapper” and is considered a form of theft.
• It is considered a breach of honesty in the academic community.

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• Plagiarism can take many forms, from deliberate cheating to
accidentally copying from a source without acknowledgement.
• Whenever you use the words or ideas of another person in your
work, you must acknowledge where they came from.

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• In academic writing, plagiarizing involves using words, ideas, or
information from a source without citing it correctly.
• In practice, this can mean a few different things.

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• The usage of computing has transform from analog to digital and
taking plagiarism with it.
• Invention of ‘copy and paste’ have had the largest impact.
• No longer an individual have to copy work by hand.

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• As the internet exploded, growing from 23,500 websites in 1995 to an
estimated 1.7 billion in 2020, the amount of information available
grew along with it.
• This became an especially large problem in academia, where people
quickly learned that they could avoid writing papers if they simply
copied what they needed off the internet.

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• It is interesting that while technology made plagiarism easier, it
also made plagiarism detection easier.
• The same tools (Internet) that help students plagiarize help their
instructors spot it (Internet based plagiarism detecting software

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e.g. Turnitin).

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What The Future Holds?
• Currently, plagiarism is a rapidly-developing topic of discussion, both
from a technological standpoint and from an ethical one.
• As new technologies create new forms of expression, we are going to

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see increasing tensions about what the rules should be.

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 Types of Plagiarism

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There are different ways to describe various types of
plagiarism and all are serious violations of academic honesty.
Here two different types have discussed below:
1. Common types
2. Ten types

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 2. Self Plagiarism
1. Direct Plagiarism

3. Mosaic Plagiarism
4. Accidental Plagiarism
Common Types of Plagiarism

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 Common Types of Plagiarism

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1. Direct Plagiarism
• Direct plagiarism is the word-for-word transcription of a section
of someone else’s work, without attribution and without
quotation marks.
• The deliberate copying of someone else's work is unethical,
academically dishonest, and grounds for disciplinary actions,
including expulsion.

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 Common Types of Plagiarism

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2. 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 involved.
• For example, it would be unacceptable to incorporate part of a
dissertation submitted by a student in previous years.
• Self-plagiarism also applies to submitting the same piece of
work for assignments in different classes without permission.

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 Common Types of Plagiarism

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3. Mosaic Plagiarism
• Mosaic Plagiarism occurs when someone borrows phrases from
a source without using quotation marks, or finds synonyms for
the author’s language while keeping to the same general
structure and meaning of the original.
• Sometimes called “patch writing,” this kind of
paraphrasing, whether intentional or not, is academically
dishonest and punishable – even if you footnote your source!

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 Common Types of Plagiarism

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4. Accidental Plagiarism
• Accidental plagiarism occurs when a person neglects to cite their sources,
or misquotes their sources, or unintentionally paraphrases a source by
using similar words, groups of words, and/or sentence structure without
attribution.
• Students must learn how to cite their sources and to take careful and
accurate notes when doing research.
• Lack of intent does not pardon the student of responsibility for plagiarism.
• Cases of accidental plagiarism are taken as seriously as any other
plagiarism and are subject to the same range of consequences as other
types of plagiarism.

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 Finally, is plagiarism a crime?

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• Plagiarism is not a crime, but it can be punished in court.
• Plagiarism is considered an infringement of copyrights, similar to
fraud.
• Plagiarism is illegal if it infringes on an author's intellectual property
rights, including copyright or trademark.
• Plagiarism is a violation of academic norms and is unethical.
• It can damage one's scholarly image and prevent them from getting a
degree or job after graduation.

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 Finally, is plagiarism a crime?

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• Plagiarism can be punished in court for prejudices caused by:
• Copyright infringement
• Violation of moral rights
• Offences

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THANKS

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