What is plagiarism

Plagiarism is the act of stealing someone else’s work or ideas and passing them off as your own by directly copying or rewriting them.

Plagiarism in academic papers mainly manifests itself in the following aspects:

Idea Plagiarism

Stealing someone else’s words or ideas and pretending they are your own is considered serious plagiarism.

Sentence Plagiarism

Copying others’ sentences or rewriting them by replacing keywords while keeping the sentence structure unchanged without proper citation, is also plagiarism.

Excessive Quotation

Copying a large portion of someone else’s text (more than three sentences or 30% of a paragraph) is considered plagiarism.

Rewriting Others’ Sentences

Even if the sentence is rewritten, it is still plagiarism if the overall sentence or paragraph is very similar to the original, especially in terms of keywords and sentence structure.

Copying Images or Tables

In addition to the above, the following rewriting is still considered plagiarism:

• Deleting a few sentences.
• Changing the order of sentences.
• Adding a few sentences in the middle.
• Modifying or replacing only key words while keeping the sentence structure unchanged.

Self-Plagiarism

Reusing your own previously published research and presenting it as new work without any innovation, or submitting the same manuscript to multiple publications without complying with copyright regulations, is also plagiarism.

False Citation

Failure to cite sources correctly, incorrectly noting references, authors, or page numbers, and misleading the reader are all considered plagiarism.

Improper Citation

Directly quoting content without using quotation marks or clearly indicating the original author’s name, which may mislead readers into thinking that the content is the author’s own ideas, is also considered plagiarism.

Conclustion

Plagiarism is a form of academic misconduct, and can even be considered fraud. When engaging in academic research, one must strictly abide by the rules of academic research, otherwise it will harm oneself and others.

Faced with the problem of the convenience of online plagiarism, some institutions have developed paper detection and plagiarism detection software, such as Turnitin, which has made a significant contribution to preventing and reducing plagiarism.