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Is It Plagiarism ?

Case Study (06): Is It Plagiarism?　On Homer's case

Professor Homer Simpson is writing a proposal for a research grant, and the deadline for the proposal submission is two days from now. To complete the background section of the proposal, Homer Simpson copies a few isolated sentences of a journal paper written by another author. The copied sentences consist of brief, factual, one-sentence summaries of earlier articles closely related to the proposal, descriptions of basic concepts from textbooks, and definitions of standard mathematical notations. None of these ideas is due to the other author. Homer Simpson adds a one-sentence summary of the journal paper and cites it.

1.Does the copying of a few isolated sentences in this case constitute plagiarism?

2.By citing the journal paper, has Homer Simpson given proper credit to the other author?

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Professor Simpson's action 1. constitutes plagiarism. Professor Simpson's action 1. constitutes plagiarism, and 2. gives credit to the first and credit to the latter, which is an unfair way of handling the literature and lacks consideration for the basic objectivity of a researcher.

Plagiarism is a trap that many researchers, not just students, fall into, but it is a foolish act that does not amount to much at all when you consider the social risks involved when it is discovered.

Plagiarism is the act of stealing another person's ideas or arguments without warning. Self-plagiarism or self-plagiarism is the act of reusing, publishing, or documenting one's own documents, data, figures, or tables, either exactly the same or slightly modified. Self-plagiarism is the act of reusing a document, data, figure, or table that is identical to or slightly modified from one's own.

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Source and Bibliography

On Being a Scientist: A Guide to Responsible Conduct in Research: Third Edition Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy, National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and Institute of Medicine ISBN: 0-309-11971-5, 82 pages, 6 x 9, (2009) This free PDF was downloaded from: http://www.nap.edu/catalog/12192.html

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Notes: This case example is cited and codified from "US National Academy of Sciences, On Being a Scientist: A Guide to Responsible Conduct in Research: Third Edition, 2009."

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