Plagiarism is the “wrongful appropriation” and “stealing and publication” of another author's “language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions” and the representation of them as one's own original work. Plagiarism can also be hidden when text is translated from one language to another with no credit to the version, which is called crosslanguage plagiarism. Plagiarism is widely found in text, document...

In the age of information technology intellectual property becomes especially valuable. This is one of the causes why the cases of the plagiarism appear more frequently in all vital sectors. Due to that, there is a growing need for different instruments for the protection and verification of copyright for finding plagiarism. Before checking the document for plagiarism, reviewing algorithms and ...

plagiarism is a serious debate in scientific community and in recent years has been in the center of interest in academic and scientific communities. plagiarism is considered as an unethical and improper act, because it constitutes theft from an intellectual work. self-plagiarism is considered as a sort of plagiarism and is defined as an improper release of information as a new idea, or using m...

Reading has been perceived as a dynamic transactional process wherein readers negotiate meaning with writers by virtue of their prior knowledge. The act of meaning construction is realized primarily through the exploration of intertextual links that connect various sources of texts the readers have composed or experienced. Readers utilize intertextuality as an inquiry tool to build their own pe...

Plagiarism causes a serious concern in scientific literature. I distinguish two types of plagiarism. What is routinely highlighted and discussed is the reprehensible type of stealing another author's ideas and words. This type I categorize as "heterotrophic" plagiarism. A more prevalent and less-discussed type of plagiarism is the verbatim use of same sentences repetitively by authors in their ...

The 1st International Competition on Plagiarism Detection, held in conjunction with the 3rd PAN workshop on Uncovering Plagiarism, Authorship, and Social Software Misuse, brought together researchers from many disciplines around the exciting retrieval task of automatic plagiarism detection. The competition was divided into the subtasks external plagiarism detection and intrinsic plagiarism dete...

THE DESCRIPTION OF The Na11'!e of the Rose that appears on the dust-jacket of -its first edition declares that the novel is difficult to define since, among other reasons, "the author asserts, perhaps mendaciously, that not one word is his own" (qtd. in Stephens 1983, 51). Readers conversant with theories of intertextuality and with Eco's own theoretical writings will readily discern a conspicu...

plagiarism is considered to be a very serious offence in most academic communities, particularly among western academia. there has been much discussion regarding the influential factors which result in plagiarism, such as ignorance and cultural attitudes. in the case of efl/esl students, it has been suggested that acts of plagiarism are often committed because students lack the proficiency to p...

Self-plagiarism requires clear definition within an environment that places integrity at the heart of the research enterprise. This paper explores the whole notion of self-plagiarism by academics and distinguishes between appropriate and inappropriate textual re-use in academic publications, while considering research on other forms of plagiarism such as student plagiarism. Based on the practic...