科学写作模块剽窃作品或表格图表当作自己unit s 7单位.pdfVIP

Plagiarismofothers’work

Passingoffotherpeople’swriting(or

tablesandfigures)asyourown.

Includes:

cuttingandpastingsentencesorevenphrases

fromanothersource

slightlyrewritingorre-arrangingothers’words

“borrowing”materialfromsiteslikeWikipedia

Example

OriginalVersion(Wikipedia):ErnestMiller

Hemingway(July21,1899–July2,1961)wasan

Americanauthorandjournalist.Hiseconomicaland

understatedstylehadastronginfluenceon20th-

centuryfiction,whilehislifeofadventureandhis

publicimageinfluencedlatergenerations.(Source:

Wikipedia)

PlagiarizedVersion:ErnestHemingway’sthrifty

andunderstatedstylestronglyinfluenced20th-

centuryfiction.Hisaudaciouslifestyleandpublic

imagealsoinfluencedlatergenerations.

Whenwritingabout

others’ideas/work:

Youmustunderstandthematerialwellenough

toputitinyourownwords!

Workfrommemory

Drawyourownconclusions

Donotmimictheoriginalauthor’ssentence

structureorjustre-arrangetheoriginalauthor’s

words.

Self-plagiarismandduplication

Recyclingyourownwritingordata,

including:

Copyingoronlyslightlyrewritingtextfrom

yourownpreviouslypublishedpapers.

Addingnewdatatoalreadypublisheddata

andpresentingitasnewresults.

Submittingidenticaloroverlappingdatato

multiplejournals.

Prevalenceofplagiarism?

Inpilotstudies,publishersthatused

CrossChecktolookforplagiarismhad

toreject6%to23%ofsubmitted

papers(duetoplagiarismorself-

plagiarism/duplication).

Reference:

Journalsstepupplagiarismpolicing.Nature466,167(2010).

Prevalenceofplagiarism?

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