Academic plagiarism: what it is and how to check it

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Recurring theme in the scientific world is academic plagiarism. Mainly because scientific journals and educational institutions pay attention when evaluating articles for submission. Have no doubt: plagiarized scientific articles are cut immediately. So, when you publish yours, no plagiarism! I want to publish my article! In this article, you will understand: What is academic plagiarism ; What are the modalities ; What are its implications ; And, most importantly, how you should check for it and avoid it so that it does not generate negative consequences for your academic career or affect the reputation of your event. What is academic plagiarism? According to Ferreira (1999), plagiarism is signing or representing someone else's artistic or scientific work as one's own, imitating someone else's work. For Moraes (2004, p.95), plagiarism is a fraudulent imitation of a work, protected by copyright law, resulting in a true attack on the author's moral rights: both paternity and the integrity of his creation. In other words, academic plagiarism is any  copy, whether partial or total, of some existing content, without due credit being given to the author.

echnology, contact between researchers and ease of access to scientific journals have led to a greater exchange of information. But it was also these factors that favored practices such as the “theft” of ideas. Types of plagiarism There are several ways to commit plagiarism. Among the most common practices, we can highlight: 1 – Full Plagiarism It is copying, word for word, without making changes, a work or an excerpt thereof and not presenting the original source of the text. 2 – Paraphrase without attributing the source Paraphrasing (that is, saying the same thing in different words) most of the DM Databases ideas in a text, without adding your own content, is also plagiarism. Paraphrasing is widely used by students. Generally, a few words in the original text are changed in an attempt to make identification more difficult for the evaluator, but the idea of ​​the text is preserved. 3 – Research data (quantitative and qualitative) without mentioning the source Plagiarism is the act of presenting data from institutions, such as the IBGE, the WHO, or that were collected by other researchers and “forgetting” to mention them in the text or attribute them as your own.



Common practice that we often do without realizing it is to put: “Currently, 70 million people in the world suffer from disease X.” But who said that? Was it you who found the information or was this data in a book, website or in a survey released by a large body? The source must be attributed! EVER! 4 – Plagiarism mosaic It involves copying excerpts from different sources, forming a mosaic, but changing small phrases or words to disguise the copy. It means taking, for example, small excerpts from different monographs, by well-known or little-known authors, and putting them together as if they were your own new content. 5 – Self-plagiarism It happens when you borrow your own content, which has already been presented in previous situations. You may, for example, have presented it in the first period of college and now reuse it in the fifth period as well. Or use excerpts from the TCC for postgraduate studies. This is very common among students and they don't even realize that they are committing plagiarism. 6 – Copying images, photographs, graphics, drawings and other visual content You find a table in a book that greatly simplifies what you want to explain.