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Plagiarismto do or not to do that’s

the question

To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism, to steal ideas from many is research


simple strategies for plagiarism

start writing do not start with a literature search copy/past text and pictures from the internet replace important words by synonyms, after that it looks like your own text never mention the original source ask a work-shy teacher with no computer skills to supervise you and copy/paste references from a Wiki about your subject on the last page of you thesis. success guaranteed!









plagiarism is:

copying texts, ideas, pictures and even

software from other sources and

present them as your own work


plagiarism has everything to do with

integrity (academic & research integrity)

intellectual property copyright guidelines for citing information

properly common knowledge



"Plagiarism means using another's work without giving credit. So

You must put others' words in quotation marks and always cite your source(s).

Citation must also be given when using others' ideas, even when those ideas are paraphrased into your own words.


simple strategies to avoid plagiarism

always start with a literature searchwhy?

collect scientific articles, peer reviewed , about your subject.

why? quote and document someone else’s

words and ideas

why? demonstrate that you have

researched the information



why do you have to mention your sources

scientists do not present substantial portions or elements of another's work or data as their own even if the other work or data source is cited occasionally

plagiarism is a form of fraud and is thereforean offence. For some time now, our University has been taking active steps to combat plagiarism.


Source code plagiarism

Georgina Cosma & Mike JoyTowards a definition of source code plagiarismIEEE transactions on Education,, 2008


Ander bedrog• On Thursday, scientific journal publisher Springer announced that it

would be removing 16 fake research papers from its archives after learning that they were essentially computer-generated nonsense.

• …the fraudulent papers were created using SCIgen, a free program used to create pseudo-academic research. They were then submitted to computer science and engineering conferences and then printed in specialized, subscription-only publications.

• SCIgen was originally developed by MIT graduate students Jeremy Stribling, Dan Aguayo and Maxwell Krohn in 2005. The trio wanted to expose how scientific contests would accept any type of academic papers so long as the authors were willing to pay the registration fees,

• http://www.nature.com/news/publishers-withdraw-more-than-120-gibberish-papers-1.14763