Lesson 24: Types of Plagiarism

             Responsible writing is necessary for writing academic text (Louw, 2017). As a novice researcher, you need to take note that you ought to be responsible for the things that you write in your research. One of the elements in writing responsibly is through proper citation both in-text and reference citation. Aside from it, it is proper to list your sources on the information that you are bringing out. Furthermore, you need to give proper credit to the author by acknowledging his or her ideas. Nonetheless, you are avoiding plagiarism that is usually done when you quote words or ideas created or first used by others. By doing it, your readers can track down the sources that you utilized by citing them properly through footnotes, bibliography, or reference list.

Types of Plagiarism: 

1. Direct Plagiarism. This type of plagiarism is committed when you copy word-forword a section of others’ works without quotation marks (Roig, 2002).

Example 

The stage of dialogue was the action of conversation. On this manner, the incident was immediately addressed and effects were identified.

This is the proper way of citing a direct quotation. 

“The stage of dialogue was the action of conversation. On this manner, the incident was immediately addressed and effects were identified”.  

from the research titled, “The Die is Cast: Experiences of Novice Teachers in Handling Verbal Bullying Incidents in a Middle School” written by Dexter V. Fernandez, MAED. and Arnel T.  Sicat, Ph.D.

2. Self-Plagiarism. This plagiarism is often committed when you mix your previous works to come up with new article without proper citation and permission to the teacher you previously submitted the work (Helgesson & Eriksson, 2014; Plagiarism.org, 2011).

Example

You submitted a research for Practical Research 1

The occurrence of verbal bullying was a typical scenario in middle school. This kind of abuse was commonly committed by students towards their peers. With the literature about this matter, little less has been conducted about the manner novice teachers handle verbal bullying incidents.

A year later, you submitted it again in Practical Research 2

The occurrence of verbal bullying was a typical scenario in middle school. This kind of abuse was commonly committed by students towards their peers. With the literature about this matter, little less has been conducted about the manner novice teachers handle verbal bullying incidents.

from the research titled, “The Die is Cast: Experiences of Novice Teachers in Handling Verbal Bullying Incidents in a Middle School” written by Dexter V. Fernandez, MAED. and Arnel T. Sicat, Ph.D.

3. Mosaic Plagiarism. It is committed when you take phrases from a source without using quotation marks or citation; thus, you just find synonyms to the authors’ words while keeping the same though as it is in the original (Roka, 2017).  

Example

A research taken from the Internet

The occurrence of verbal bullying was a typical scenario in middle school. This kind of abuse was commonly committed by students towards their peers. With the literature about this matter, little less has been conducted about the manner novice teachers handle verbal bullying incidents. Thus, this phenomenological study investigated the practices of novice teachers in handling bullying in a middle school.

Plagiarized

The event of verbal bullying was a common situation in secondary school. This kind of abuse was commonly committed by students towards their classmates. With the literature about this matter, little less has been conducted about the manner new teachers handle verbal bullying incidents. thus, this phenomenological study investigated the practices of novice teachers in handling bullying in a secondary school.

from the research titled, “The Die is Cast: Experiences of Novice Teachers in Handling Verbal Bullying Incidents in a Middle School” written by Dexter V. Fernandez, MAED. and Arnel T. Sicat, Ph.D.

4. Accidental Plagiarism. This is committed when unintentionally neglected to cite a source or quoted by using similar words or sentence structure. This can be avoided through responsible writing and running your work in an initial plagiarism test available in internet (Learning Services Writing Center, 2018).