History Of Plagiarism

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Introduction Plagiarism is an act of representing dishonesty, integrity, responsibility, ethics, and moral standards, and how they are taking place in the student’s personality. Plagiarism is defned as “ Authors do not present the work of another as if it were their own words” (American Psychological Association, 2010, p. 170). Plagiarism is an act of reutilizing someone else’s work, idea, word, and perspective to enhance or streghten their standing point in the paper or research. Plagiarsim is the fact you are “copying word by word or rephrasing a sentence from the original source and claiming it as your own” (American Psychological Association, 2010, p. 16). The student caught plagiarized a thought, idea, result, perspective, or project could face very serious consequences, which will end up his academic endeavors or possible carrier. In order to avoid plagiarism there is many techniques and tools that the student, especially PhD students, might use in order to ensure that the product comes from the mind and efforts of the student. So, what are techniques and tools to recognize plagiarism? What is Walden University defined the Plagiarism as “use of intellectual material produced by another person without acknowledging its source” (Walden University, 2015). Plagiarism can take two forms: word-by-word and/or paraphrasing the original text. The PhD student must have the capabilities and techniques to become proficient in recognizing plagiarized sentence, important passage, results, etc… from a non-plagiarized text. Paraphrase is another form of plagiarism, especially, where the student rearrange the order of the words or sentences or even choosing synonyms of the words which has been used already in the original document (American Psychological Association, 2010, p.

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