In General, Plagiarism means stealing and submitting/ publishing other’s work, idea and thought in whole or some part of it as its own work without providing proper citation. This reflects Academic Dishonesty on the part of student, academician and faculty if he/she follows this type of behavior at Institutional Work. This is becoming a great problem in schools and institutes now days. The students and faculties both neither think their own level nor create original ideas/thoughts/content in submissions/presentations. Also the Advanced technology and Internet Access has opened the way for such type of Academic Criminals. Let us know how many types of plagiarism or we can say how many ways your original work can be steal. The most popular ways of stealing are as follows:
Clone: In this type of plagiarism the Academic Thief copy /steal other’s whole work word by word and submit/publish it; i.e. all content is taken from a single source. He/she forbids the original writer’s name and identity. In other words, no quotation marks are used and no citations are given.
CTRL-C: This plagiarism is also found in most of the content-theft. In this case only few words are added and maximum content is copied as it is from a single source. Here also no acknowledgement in terms of citations is mentioned within or end of the copied content.
Find –Replace: If the key-words and phrases are changed intentionally then this type of content stealing is known as Find-Replace Plagiarism.
Remix: If the content is copied from multiple sources and combined together as a whole with paraphrasing (Changing key-words and phrases intentionally) then this kind of content theft comes under the Remix Plagiarism. This is also a most popular and dangerous way of Plagiarism. It requires skill of Paraphrasing.
The above are some of the most popular way of plagiarism. These types of plagiarism can be detected easily with the help of Plagiarism Checker Software.
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