Rogers Publishing Limited. Wikipedia contributors. Topics: Current Events , Academic. Login Buy Credits. Plagiarism Blog. Self-Plagiarism: Is it Really Plagiarism? But do you know what self-plagiarism looks like? Reusing the same data information, statistics, facts that you used in previous submissions, without making it clear to your readers or acknowledging its usage. Using details from presentations that you used for conferences and group discussion, in your written submissions without referencing back to it.
Heavily paraphrasing sentences that were used in older coursework, and showing them as original work. Forgetting to or citing yourself incorrectly. Using the assignments they submitted in their former school for similar subjects in their present school. Here are some consequences of plagiarism or self-plagiarism: An immediate failing grade to the student for that particular assignment or sometimes even the entire course.
A disciplinary hearing is brought together to determine the seriousness of the incident and the level of punishment the person should receive. As reporting plagiarism is a responsibility for all the teachers, there would be no other choice for them to report this situation to the relevant authority figures.
A severe warning is given to the student and is recorded in the books so that they think twice before plagiarising their assignments again. Expulsion of the student, when the situation is grave. How to Avoid Plagiarizing Yourself?
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Make this the First Word or Last Word. No thanks. Become an Insider! This feature is only available to registered users. Register or sign in to use it. Sign In Register Preferences. Why Are They Considered Binding? Thu, Oct 14th pm — Mike Masnick. If you liked this post, you may also be interested in MrWilson , 14 Oct pm.
When I was in school, I reused a paper once or twice. Of course it was necessary to tweak the paper for the second usage since instructor requirements might vary. But since everything a student creates ultimately comes from research they've conducted or experiences they've had and is filtered through their brain, why does it matter if the particular ideas happen to be viable for more than one assignment or have previously been articulated by the student in written form prior to the assignment being assigned?
Instructors sure as hell reuse ideas. In fact, a lot of my instructors reused obsolete ideas. Try taking a computer science class from a guy who stopped learning new technology when he quit working at IBM twenty years ago in order to teach.
Cerberus , 3 Dec pm. I think the main reason is that students attend university to learn, and the faculty sees writing papers from beginning to end as an important part of that process, both as an instrument of research and as a sub-goal of itself, creating new research. Anonymous Coward , 28 Jun pm.
You just described many people in college. Andrew profile , 14 Oct pm. My freshman year my history and English classes both assigned an open topic research paper for the end of the semester. I chose the same topic for both and used the same paper as it met the requirements for each.
I did ask the professor for the class which had a later due date if it was acceptable and he saw no problem with it.
I think most professors would understand that as long as the student did the work it doesn't matter whom it was done for. Students have enough work as it is, if they can find a way to knock out two papers with one stone why not? Robert Ring profile , 14 Oct pm. Yeah, I actually did this once in college, using just a paragraph or so from one paper in another paper, not realizing it was even considered "self-plagiarization" until I read about it a few months later in the MLA handbook.
Guess I got a way with it. I can actually see the argument against this for academic purposes, though -- that it lessens the student's ability to learn from the class. But, as the article says, people do this frequently in the professional world, so I would think it should ultimately be considered okay for students, since part of college is preparing students for careers.
It's all based on assumptions. There's an assumption that you actually learn something in a class, but this doesn't account for the possibility that you had already learned what you might have otherwise gotten out of the class. If you already learned what you needed to know to write a paper that fit the requirements of the course because you'd already written the paper, why should you have to "learn" what you already know?
There's a grand assumption that you will have gained something valuable after taking so many courses. There's an even grander assumption that having a piece of paper that indicates that you took a bunch of classes means you're competent on some level. I've met people with masters degrees and even PHDs who have no common sense and all the book-learning in the world won't help them to function in society.
The greatest value generated by college is that of the value of the student loan debt you've taken on for someone else's financial benefit. The piece of paper gets you the interview. Your future boss' incompetence gets you the job. And then you realize that if you could have gotten away with lying about having a degree, you could have done just as well in the job years ago and saved yourself the hassle and debt.
Aerilus , 14 Oct pm. Robert Ring profile , 15 Oct am. Well, considering that the act of writing, not just obtaining knowledge, is part of what is involved in composing a paper, even if you do have previous knowledge, you still learn by developing your writing skills in forgoing so-called self plagiarization.
That's not news. Many, many PhDs, in my experience, lack common sense and social skills. That's not what the academic program is meant to develop. Ryan Diederich , 14 Oct pm.
Lol I use Wikipedia every time I write a research paper. You can never cite wikipedia, but cite the sources that wikipedia cites. It is, by far, the most complete collection of topics and citations and information.
I hate when teachers tell people not to use it. The situation has not yet arisin for me to use a past paper. Even if it did, I doubt I would be able to find it anyways. Different classes do have different requirements. As long as you are doing the things required, it doesnt matter. For example, my english class requires me to write a narrative essay on the topic of my choice.
Obviously, the goal is to get experience writing a narrative essay. I wouldnt and shouldnt turn in a narrative essay that I had already written on a topic, where the goal of the assignment was to learn how to use dialogue, for instance. Then again, if it is college, you should simply do whatever you please.
It is your money, and you decide how much you get for it. Yeah, but can I cite Wikipedia. Apologies if I ruined some attempt at irony. Anonymous Coward , 10 Apr pm. Jonathan , 5 Aug pm. DNoName , 23 Jan pm. Jesse , 14 Oct pm. This is something I've said for a long time now. A You can't plagiarize yourself. At least pick another word. B If, by some chance, you can reuse a paper, what does that say about the course, that overlaps so much with other courses that a student could use the same assignments?
And you are calling ME unoriginal? I'm just supposed to pretend so that you can get away with lazy assignment creation? You absolutely can plagiarize yourself by copying text that was "published" elsewhere without citing it.
Regardless of the source, you must always cite the source. Michael Bi , 10 Jan am. Umm that's not plagiarizing yourself. What you're describing is plagiarizing in general. Anonymous Coward , 27 Jul pm. Really the whole thing is like 'piracy' for 'copyright infringement' the misuse the term for something else and the sheer absurdity of it devalues the underlying word and the offense in the same way that impossible to enforce laws breed only contempt for it.
Call it what it is - in this case 'citation failures' or 'failure to write their own original paper'. These may be reasons to mark one's grade down but they are by no means misconduct and shouldn't be treated as such.
I also had one software engineering project where we were explicitly asked to bring in old code to refactor and enhance. I know that when I was in college there were a few rare students who asked if they could work on a paper simultaneously with another related class. I never saw a professor say no if it met the original parameter son the grounds that successfully writing something for two different objectives shows enough imitative and makes the original task more difficult that even if it winds up saving more time than doing two separate ones it is in no way an easy shortcut.
Ben Strom profile , 14 Oct pm. Each time i added to it and changed things, but the basic framework was there. CharlieM profile , 14 Oct pm. Mike, while you may be correct in that plagiarizing "is about passing off someone else's work as your own". Now, the simple way around this and would work for the academic examples presented in your post would be to simply cite your previous work.
Even if it was not published, you can still cite yourself. Andrew profile , 15 Oct am. This isn't necessarily true. For my thesis, I was only able to cite my published papers. And I'm not sure I buy your taking credit twice argument. The context of the article is different getting marks twice for the same work , but in your example I have only proved that thing once, no matter how often I talk about it.
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