The presentation is about Plagiarism - What it is; How to avoid it; How to find it; Citation Methods; Writing style; Methods for citing various sources. A verbal consent of Prof. Dr. C. B. Bhatt was obtained (at 4.15pm on Dt. 26-11-2016 at Hall A-2, GTU, Chandkheda) to float the presentation online in benefits of the research scholar society.

1. Dr. Chetan B. Bhatt
Professor and Head,
Vishwakarma Government Engineering College,
Chandkheda, Ahmedabad
Plagiarism

2. Presentation Outline
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 Plagiarism
 What it is
 How to avoid it
 How to find it
 Citation Methods
 Writing style
 Methods for citing various sources

3. Plagiarism
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 Plagiarism (pley–juh–riz-uh’m or pley-jee-uh-riz)
 Word root is “Plagiar(y)”
 1590 – 1600; from Latin “plagiarius i.e. kidnapper”
 Plagiarism is the attempt to pass off other
peoples’ work (ideas, words, phrases, or
passages) as your owns.

4. Types of plagiarism
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 Four kind of plagiarism are identified as below:
 Direct plagiarism: Verbatim lifting of passages without
enclosing the borrowed material in quotation marks and
crediting the original author.
 Mosaic: Borrowing the ideas and opinions from the original
source and a few verbatim words or phrases without crediting
the original author. In this case, the plagiarist intertwines his or
her own ideas and opinions with those of the original author,
creating a “confused, plagiarized mass”.
 Paraphrase: Restating a phrase or passage, providing the
same meaning but in a different form without attribution to the
original author.
 Insufficient acknowledgement: Noting the original source of
only part of what is borrowed or failing to cite the source
material in such a way that a reder will know what is original
and what is borrowed.”

5. How to avoid plagiarism
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 Cite the ideas, words, phrases, or passages
taken from others’ work properly in your report,
research paper, and thesis.
 There are various writing style for writing report,
thesis, research papers. Below are the most
common writing styles –
 Turabian (5th edition; an adaptation of the Chicago
Manual of Style [CMS]),
 MLA (Modern Language Association)
 APA (American Psychological Association), and
 LSA (Linguistic Society of America).

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 The site has resources and link to other resource
sites http://www.ovc.edu/terry/citation.htm

7. References
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 http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/plagiarism
 http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/plagiary