WHAT IS PLAGIARISM ?

According to UGC, “Plagiarism means the practice of taking someone else’s work or idea and passing them as one’s own” (UGC, 2018).

Mainly plagiarism happens inadvertently through sloppy research or on purpose through unethical use of information. It is a serious disciplinary offense (Biswas, S. K., 2019b, p361).

TYPES OF PLAGIARISM

•   Deliberate Plagiarism

•   Accidental Plagiarism

•   Self Plagiarism

•   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. Sometimes called “patch            writing,”  this  kind of paraphrasing, whether intentional or not, is academically dishonest and punishable – even if you footnote your        source!

CONSEQUENCES OF PLAGIARISM?

Every academic/ research institution(s) have some research ethics and rules for avoiding the consequences of plagiarism. Ibid, p363).

• •   Destroyed Student Reputation
• •   Legal Repercussions
• •   Monetary Repercussions

PLAGIARISM DETECTION SOFTWARE

• •   PlagScan: It’s an online software used for textual plagiarism checker;
• •   CheckForPlagiarism.net: It’s used to stop or prevention of online plagiarism and minimizes its effects on academic integrity;
• •   PlagiarismDetection.org: It’s an online service provides high level of accuracy result in plagiarism detection;
• •   GPlag: It’s detects plagiarism by mining program dependence, graphs (PDGs) ;
• •   PlagiarismDetect: This is a freely available Internet service;
• •   Ephorus: This tool requires registration with the Ephorus siteand, therefore, no downloads or installation is needed;
• •   MOSS (a Measure of Software Similarity): This internet service specializes in detecting plagiarism in C, C++, Java, Pascal, Aa, ML, Lisp, or Scheme programs;
• •   JPlag:  It’s  an  internet  based  service  which  is  used  to  detect  similarities  among program source codes;
• •   Plagiarism-Finder:  This  tool  compares  the  given  document  with  sources  on  the Internet and generates HTML reports highlighting concurrent passages and providing links to the source, for verification;
• •   Ithenticate: This  tool  compares  a given document against  the  document  sources available on the World Wide Web;
• •   SIM: It’s a software similarity tester for programs written in C, Modula-2, Java, Pascal, Miranda, Lisp, and for natural languages.
• •   Marble: Marble is a simple, easily maintainable tool that can be used to detect cases of suspicious similarity between Java submissions;
• •   Plaggie: Is a Java programming based source code plagiarism detection engine;
• •   Turnitin: It’s a web-based service;
• •   Urkund: It’s a server-based plagiarism detection web service;
• •   Copycatch:  It’s a  client-based tool used to compare locally available databases of documents;
• •   WCopyfind: It’s an open-source tool for detecting words or phrases of defined length within a local repository of documents;
• •   Eve2 (Essay Verification Engine): This tool works at the client-side and uses its own internet search mechanism to find out about plagiarized contents in a suspected document;
• •   Glatt Plagiarism Screening Program (GPSP): It works locally and uses an approach to plagiarism detection that differs from previously mentioned services;

HOW TO AVOID PLAGIARISM?

Plagiarism may be intentional or unintentional. The best policy in avoiding plagiarism is always to cite the information source.

• •   Another person’s idea,
• •   Opinion, or theory;
• •   Any facts, statistics, graphs, drawings-any pieces of information-that are not common knowledge;
• •   Quotations of another person’s actual spoken or written words; or
• •   Paraphrase of another person’s spoken or written words.