Plagiarism

What is Plagiarism?

According to Webster's definition, Plagiarism means "Stealing the idea and passing off (the ideas and words of another) as one’s own: using another production without crediting the source."

What are the types of plagiarism?

Types of Plagiarism

There are four types of Plagiarism (Direct Plagiarism, Self-Plagiarism, Mosaic Plagiarism and Accidental Plagiarism)

1. Direct Plagiarism:-

Direct plagiarism is the word-for-word plagiarize of text/content/material of someone else’s work, without attribution and quotation marks or credit to the original author's works.

2. Self-Plagiarism:-

Self-plagiarism occurs when a researcher submits his or her previous work, or mixes parts of previous works without permission from all the co-authors or supervisors involved and does not credit and cite this work

3. Mosaic Plagiarism:-

Mosaic Plagiarism occurs when a student borrows phrases from a source without using quotation marks or finds synonyms for the author’s language while keeping to the same general structure and meaning of the original and not paraphrasing the original authors.

4. Accidental Plagiarism:-

Accidental plagiarism occurs when a person neglects to cite their sources, or misquotes their sources, or unintentionally paraphrases a source by using similar words, groups of words, and/or sentence structure without attribution. Read more