Plagiarism is presenting someone else's published project/ideas as your own, with or without their consent. Without full acknowledgment.

1. Plagiarism

2. Introduction
 It is a serious ethical offense
 Failure to acknowledge
 Cutting & pasting from the Internet without clear
acknowledgement
 Use of material written by professional agencies / other persons

3. Plagiarism: Definition
presenting someone else's ideas as your own, with / without their consent,
by incorporating it into your work without full acknowledgement.
(OR)
representation of another author's language, thoughts, ideas, / expressions
as one's own original work.
(OR)
using someone else’s work without giving them proper credit.

4. Types of Plagiarism
 Global plagiarism
 Verbatim plagiarism
 Paraphrasing plagiarism
 Patchwork plagiarism
 Self-plagiarism

5. Global plagiarism
 plagiarizing an entire text.
 includes purchasing an essay / turning in an assignment
completed by someone else.

6. Verbatim plagiarism
 Verbatim (word for word)
 directly copying someone’s words
 quotation without clear acknowledgement

7. Paraphrasing plagiarism
 the work of others by altering a few words
 Absence of acknowledgement to the author whose work you are
using
 rephrasing someone else’s ideas & presenting them as if they
were your own original thoughts.

8. Patchwork plagiarism
 copying phrases & passages from different sources &
compiling them into a new text.
Phrases - ச ொற்ச ொடர்கள்
Note

9. Self-plagiarism / Auto-plagiarism
 recycling previous work that you’ve already published.
 Identical pieces of work submitted concurrently will also be
considered to be auto-plagiarism

10. A few suggestions for avoiding plagiarism
1. Replacing all words other than generic ones, with correct synonyms
2. Altering the voice, active to passive & vice versa
3. Changing the structure of a sentence
4. Reducing the clauses to phrases
5. Modifying the parts of speech

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