The document discusses plagiarism and academic integrity, defining plagiarism as the unauthorized use of another's work and highlighting its moral and ethical implications. It explains the importance of academic integrity, identifies types of plagiarism, including unintentional acts, and provides guidelines on how to avoid it. Lastly, it outlines the potential consequences of plagiarism, such as job loss and academic penalties.

1. Plagiarism and Academic
Integrity
Ms. Nidhi Jethava
Research Scholar
Department of ENglish MK Bhavnagar University
Ph.D. Coursework Presentation
Paper: 1 Research Methodology

2. Table of contents
1. What is Plagiarism?
2. What does mean by Academic Integrity?
3. Plagiarism includes following….
4. Unintentional Plagiarism
5. How to Avoid Plagiarism
6. When Documentation is not needed
7. Related Issue
8. Consequences of Plagiarism

3. What is Plagiarism?
01

4. Plagiarism according to Cambridge
Dictionary, is defined as using another
person’s ideas or work and presenting
as its own work.

5. Plagiarism involves two kinds of wrongs. Using another
person's ideas, information, or expressions without
acknowledging that person's work constitutes intellectual
theft. Passing off-another person's ideas, information, or
expressions as your own to get a better grade or gain some
other advantage constitutes fraud. Plagiarism is sometimes
a moral and ethical offense rather than a legal one since
some instances of plagiarism fall outside the scope of
copyright infringement, a legal offense. (MLA Handbook for Writers of
Research Papers.)
MLA Handbook for Writers of Research
Papers.

6. 02
What does mean by
Academic Integrity?

7. Academic integrity is:
‘the expectation that teachers, students, researchers and all members of
the academic community act with: honesty, trust, fairness, respect and
responsibility.’
Breaching academic integrity is also known as ‘academic misconduct’ or
‘academic dishonesty’. (Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency.)

8. 03
Plagiarism includes following….

9. ● Verbatim quotation without clear
acknowledgement
● Paraphrasing
● Cutting and pasting from online sources
● Collusion
● Inaccurate citation
● Failure to acknowledge
(Plagiarism.” University of Oxford)

10. 04
Unintentional Plagiarism

11. 1. “Often plagiarism in student writing is unintentional, as when an elementary
school pupil, assigned to do a report on a certain topic, copies down, word
for word, everything on the subject in an encyclopedia. Unfortunately, some
students continue to take this approach in high school and even in college,
not realizing that it constitutes plagiarism.
2. Another kind of unintentional plagiarism happens when students write
research papers in a second language. In an effort to avoid grammatical
errors, they may copy the structure of an author's sentences. When
replicating grammatical patterns, they sometimes inadvertently plagiarize
the author's ideas, information, words, and expressions.”
( MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers.)

12. 05 How to Avoid Plagiarism
1. Making a list of the writers and viewpoints you discovered in your research and
using this list to double-check the presentation of material in your paper.
2. Keeping the following three categories distinct in your notes: your ideas, your
summaries of others’ material, and exact wording you copy.
3. Identifying the sources of all material you borrow- exact wording, paraphrases,
ideas, arguments, and facts.
4. Give work citation.
( MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers.)

13. ❖ To write down biography of author.
❖ To mention dates of historical events.
( MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers.)
06 When Documentation is not needed

14. 07 Related Issue
1. Reusing a Research Paper
2. Collaborative Work
3. Research on Human Subjects
4. Copyright Infringements
( MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers.)

15. 8. Consequences of Plagiarism
1. People lose their Jobs
2. Reputation is ruined
3. Students who get caught get fail
4. They also lose a chance to learn
5. Penalty can be charged
( MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers.)

16. 06. Work Cited
MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. Modern Language Association of America, 2009. Accessed 1
August 2023.
“Plagiarism.” Cambridge Dictionary, dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/plagiarism.
“Plagiarism.” University of Oxford, https://www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/graduate/applying-to-oxford/university-
policies/plagiarism. Accessed 4 August 2023.
“What is academic integrity? | Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency.” TEQSA, 13 October 2022,
https://www.teqsa.gov.au/students/understanding-academic-integrity/what-academic-integrity#academic-
integrity%C2%A0. Accessed 2 August 2023.