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Plagiarism and Unfair Means. What is Plagiarism?. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Plagiarism and Unfair Means
What is Plagiarism?
Plagiarism is presenting someone else’s work as if it were your own, whether you mean to or not. ‘Someone else’s work’ means anything that is not your own idea, even if it is presented in your own style. It includes material from books, journals or any other printed source, the work of other students or staff, information from the Internet, software programs and other electronic material, designs and ideas. It also includes the organization or structuring of any such material.
Quotation or Plagiarism
“Plagiarism is presenting someone else’s work as if it were your own, whether you mean to or not. ‘Someone else’s work’ means anything that is not your own idea, even if it is presented in your own style. It includes material from books, journals or any other printed source, the work of other students or staff, information from the Internet, software programs and other electronic material, designs and ideas. It also includes the organization or structuring of any such material.”
http://www.vuw.ac.nz/home/glossary
Reference/attributionQuotation mark
University of Sheffield definition
http://www.shef.ac.uk/lets/design/unfair
“is the stealing of ideas or work of another person (including experts and fellow or former students) and is considered dishonest and unprofessional. Plagiarism may take the form of cutting and pasting, taking or closely paraphrasing ideas, passages, sections, sentences, paragraphs, drawings, graphs and other graphical material from books, articles, internet sites or any other source and submitting them for assessment without appropriate acknowledgement.”
Other unfair meansSubmitting bought or commissioned work (for example from internet sites, essay “banks”)
Submitting work that has been completed by other students
Double submission, or self plagiarism
exception – literature review and transfer report
“ ‘Plagiarism?’ But my friend gave me permission to use his essay and said I didn’t have to cite him.”
Collusion
2 or more people work together to produce a piece of work, which is then submitted by each of them as their own individual work
Collusion does not occur where students work together as a group to produce a single piece of work
Fabrication
Submitting work (e.g. laboratory data) any part of which is untrue, made up, falsified or fabricated in any way
Regarded as fraudulent and dishonest
Plagiarism detection
Use software to scan and match documents
6 words in same sequence as published source
changes in structure of grammar and syntax
Literature review, transfer report, final thesis
University PolicyWhere unfair means is accepted by the student, a penalty mark may be given
If in doubt about a document you are preparing, you must ask for help from your supervisor or PGR tutor
University PolicyIf plagiarism is detected but you dispute it you will be required to produce all draft versions of any written document
This includes date/time-stamped word-processing files, presentations, early hand-written drafts, lab notebooks
It is your responsibility to maintain all such records
University PolicyIn serious cases the following penalties may be applied by the university:
a reprimand;
with the consent of the student, a requirement that the student gives an undertaking as to future conduct in such terms and containing such conditions as the Committee may prescribe, breach of the undertaking to constitute misconduct;
in the case of the use of unfair means in an examination, refusal of credit for any or all units for which the student is registered or part thereof (the grade in each case being returned as zero or amended to reflect the reduced grade) or, in the case of examination of a thesis for a Higher Degree by Research, failure in the examination, with or without a right to submit a revised thesis;
a fine of not more than £750;
the payment of compensation in a sum not to exceed £1,000 for damage to property or loss or injury to any person caused by the student;
exclusion for a stated period or permanently from any part of the University or from the use of any of the facilities of the University;
suspension for a stated period from membership of the University;
expulsion from membership of the University.
Summary
Plagiarism is wrong so don’t do it
If you are in any doubt seek help from your supervisor or PGR tutor
Penalties are severe
New development for PGR students in the Faculty
Delivered over 7 days from 17-25th October
Introduction to core skills and experiences that PGR students are expected to gain during their research programme
Postgraduate Induction Course(PIC)
Course contentIcebreaker: assignment, presentations, presentation skills
The Doctoral Development Programme - compulsory
How to be an Effective Researcher
Introduction to Scientific Thinking (DDP module MED610)
Plagiarism and unfair means
Introduction to Research Ethics and Integrity module - compulsory
Cultural Awareness
Literature searching
Use of Endnote
Health and Safety: Out of Hours Training
Health and Safety: Lab Health & Safety
Basic laboratory skills
Data handling for laboratory based students
Introduction to reading scientific papers and abstract writing
The Research Development Framework
Intensive English language training for International students
http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/faculty/medicine-dentistry-health/graduateschool/currentpg/pic/index.html
By the end of the course you will …
….be better adapted to the research environment
….have acquired basic research skills and understandinguse of Endnoteliterature searchingscientific thinkingcritical appraisaldata handling
….have attended out of hours training course
English language training also available
How to register…
Complete a registration form and return it to [email protected]
Closing date for registration:Wednesday 12th October, 2011
There is further information in your Induction Pack
http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/faculty/medicine-dentistry-health/graduateschool/currentpg/pic/index.html