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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- Those include whether paraphrases and quotation of published and unpublished information sources of any kind printed or electronic formats.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).