PLAGIARISM

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 is called Plagiarism. In simple
words, it means using someone else’s work without giving them proper credit. In academic writing,
plagiarizing involves using words, ideas, or information from a source without citing it correctly.
Plagiarism is defined as representing a part of or the entirely of someone else’s work as your own.
Whether published or unpublished, this could be idea, text verbatim, info graphics, etc. However, it is
not considered plagiarism if most of your work is original and the referred part is diligently cited.

Example: Copying parts of a text word for word without quotation marks; Paraphrasing a text by
changing a few words or altering the sentence structure, without citing the source; Giving incorrect
information about source; quoting so much from a source that it makes up the majority of your text;
Reusing work you’ve submitted for a previous assignment, without citing yourself; Submitting a text
written entirely by someone else.

TYPES OF PLAGIARISM:

1. Global or Complete Plagiarism: It is inarguably the most severe form of plagiarism- it is as good
as stealing. It happens when an author blatantly copies somebody else’s work in its entirely and
passes it on as their own.
2. Verbatim or Direct Plagiarism: It happens when you copy a part of someone else’s work, word to
word, without providing adequate credits or attribution. The ideas, structure and diction in your
work would match with the original author’s work. Even if you were change a few words or the
position of sentences here and there, the final result remains the same.
3. Source- based Plagiarism: It results from an author trying to mislead or disguise the natural
source of their work. Say you write a paper, giving enough citations, but when the editor or peer
reviewers try to cross- check your reference, they find a dead end or incorrect information.
Another instance is when you use both primary and secondary data to support your argument
but only cite the former with no reference for the latter.
Similarly, another type of plagiarism is called data manipulation and counterfeiting. Data
Manipulation is creating your own data and results. In contrast, data counterfeiting is skipping
or altering the key findings to suit your expected outcomes.

4. Paraphrasing Plagiarism: It is one of the more common types of Plagiarism. It refers to when an
author copies ideas, thoughts, and inferences, and then claims ownership. Compared to
verbatim, paraphrasing plagiarism involves changing words, sentences, or translating texts. The
general idea or the topic of the thesis, however remains the same and as clever as it seem, it is
straight forward to detect.
5. Patchwork or Mosaic Plagiarism: one of the most mischievous ways to abstain from writing
original work. It occurs when an author stitches together a research paper by lending pieces
from multiple sources and weaving them as their creation. The author can add a few new words
and phrases but the meat of the paper is stolen.
6. Self- Plagiarism: This occurs when an author takes references from their own past works. The
biggest reason why self-plagiarism is a fallacy is because you’re trying to claim credit for
something that you have already received credit for.