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Library Information and Digital Literacy: Academic Misconduct

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Academic Misconduct

  • In research projects writing process, as a students you are being monitored, through supervision on how are applying your academic integrity values through acknowledging the work of other researchers.
  • Academic misconduct is when you do not use integrity in your academic work by submitting plagiarized academic work of assignments, articles and research project.

 

Plagiarism

WHAT IS PLAGIARISM?

  • Plagiarism is when you present other people’s works/ideas as your own in your academic work with or without their consent, by incorporating it into your work without full acknowledgement.
  • Those include whether paraphrases and quotation of published and unpublished information sources of any kind printed or electronic formats.
  • Plagiarism may be deliberate ((knowingly using someone else’s work and presenting it as your own),OR accidental (inaccurately or inadequately citing ideas and words from a source).
  • “To steal and use the ideas or words of another as your own. This is considered as literary theft, which involves both stealing someone else's work and lying about it afterward”.
  • Plagiarism is the unethical practice of using words or ideas (either planned or accidental) of another author/researcher or your own previous works without proper acknowledgment.
  • Considered as a serious academic and intellectual offense. plagiarism can result in highly negative consequences such as paper retractions and loss of author credibility and reputation
  • Is way of committing literary theft to present as new and original, an idea derived from an existing source).