Bakhtiyari, Kaveh, Salehi, Hadi, Embi, Mohamed Amin, Shakiba, Masoud, Zavvari, Azam, Shahbazi-Moghadam, Masoomeh, Ale Ebrahim, Nader and Mohammadjafari, Marjan Ethical and Unethical Methods of Plagiarism Prevention in Academic Writing. International Education Studies, 2014, vol. 7, n. 7, pp. 52-62. [Journal article (Paginated)]
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This paper discusses plagiarism origins, and the ethical solutions to prevent it. It also reviews some unethical approaches, which may be used to decrease the plagiarism rate in academic writings. We propose eight ethical techniques to avoid unconscious and accidental plagiarism in manuscripts without using online systems such as Turnitin and/or iThenticate for cross checking and plagiarism detection. The efficiency of the proposed techniques is evaluated on five different texts using students individually. After application of the techniques on the texts, they were checked by Turnitin to produce the plagiarism and similarity report. At the end, the “effective factor” of each method has been compared with each other; and the best result went to a hybrid combination of all techniques to avoid plagiarism. The hybrid of ethical methods decreased the plagiarism rate reported by Turnitin from nearly 100 to the average of 8.4 on 5 manuscripts.
Item type: | Journal article (Paginated) |
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Keywords: | Plagiarism, Plagiarism Prevention, Academic Cheating, Ethical Approaches, Unethical Approaches |
Subjects: | A. Theoretical and general aspects of libraries and information. B. Information use and sociology of information B. Information use and sociology of information > BA. Use and impact of information. B. Information use and sociology of information > BB. Bibliometric methods B. Information use and sociology of information > BG. Information dissemination and diffusion. |
Depositing user: | Dr. Nader Ale Ebrahim |
Date deposited: | 03 Jul 2014 19:55 |
Last modified: | 02 Oct 2014 12:31 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10760/23333 |
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