Avoid Plagiarism

Plagiarism constitutes a breach of academic integrity and represents substandard scholarship. Plagiarism can have lasting impact on the future career, regardless of whether it was intentional or not.

The responsibility to avoid plagiarism belongs with the student or researcher. Plagiarism can be avoided by learning how to correctly acknowledge any ideas, words, images, data, etc. that belong to somebody else.

1. Easy to copy and paste from the internet.
2. Difficult to write in English when English is not the first language.
3. Cultural difference: in Asia, students are taught to memorize and imitate the language and style of past masters in order to become better writers.
4. Increased pressure to publish for researchers
5. Unethical intentions
6. Mistakes
7. Lack of training and awareness of rules.

Revised and updated on 11/24/2021.