Extent of Plagiarism in UK Universities

Running head: EXTENT OF PLAGIARISM IN UK UNIVERSITIES
TASK 2: Extent of plagiarism in UK universities and possible solutions
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1EXTENT OF PLAGIARISM IN UK UNIVERSITIES
Introduction:
The researcher student, professors, and lecturers publish their works in the form of
journals, articles, books, and magazines. It is important to get a paper published, and ethics of the
content and originality is also needed to be maintained for the paper. A problem arises for the
academic manuscript is plagiarism, and it can be defined as the instance of utilizing imitating
languages and the thought of an author without authorization and representing the work of the
author (Gottardello, del Mar Pàmies and Valverde 2017). There has been a growth in the
plagiarism with the increase in academic and publication papers. It is an important criterion for
evaluating the publications and its publication. Checking of plagiarism helps in improvement of
the quality of the publication and increases the awareness of the consequences of plagiarism.
Some ethical techniques can be used for decreasing the plagiarism. The cause of plagiarism is
needed to be identified for decreasing it, and the plagiarism can be caused by two different types
of authors who have plagiarism, and the plagiarism can be due to direct plagiarizing due to
directly duplicating the text of another author and pretend as his work. The direct plagiarism can
be due to copy-pasting the text in the word processing application. The second type of plagiarism
can be due to unconsciousness of the author.
Main Causes of Plagiarism
The following factors are the main cause of the problem such as:
Un-cited concepts and ideas – For reading many articles scholars are used, and it helps in
improving the methodology for delivering a contribution to the study. Utilizing the idea of the
other researcher is also considered as plagiarism without citation in the manuscript (Thomas and
Scott 2016). Even if the author cites the research of another scholar, the same words should not
be used, and the language structure should be changed.
Many Author – There are manuscripts where ideas may be taken from many authors, and the
single author may not be aware of the honesty and ethics of the other author. For collaboration
writings, each of the authors is responsible for his/ her work and when the work gets publishes
the responsibility is divided with all the authors for publishing the material.
Accidental similarity – This is the factor which includes the similarity in the text in with some
other study conducted by some other author by chance (Cosma et al. 2017). This mainly happens
when a sentence is common as used by everyone and in this case, it becomes possible that the
sentence and the concept are recognized as plagiarism in the plagiarism detection system.

2EXTENT OF PLAGIARISM IN UK UNIVERSITIES
Fixed Definition – There is a fixed definition that can be written by the author and cited and its
modification can change the meaning.
Cross text Plagiarism – There are several parts in a piece of writing like the introduction along
with the body, and the conclusion. The parts are generally seen to be dependent upon the goals
that the manuscript, styles, and applications are having (Rodafinos 2018). Apart from this, there
are some sections such as executive summary, evolution, etc. where repetition is necessary for
some part of the text. For example, abstract generally consists of the ideas that are presented in
the paper is written and thus in the main paper, each part of the abstract is needed to be
discussed. As another example, the methodology, evaluation, and conclusion can also be
considered where the problems and issues are discussed and elaborated in the other section of the
manuscript. The ability that the writers have to write a particular sentence with the similar
meaning and different styles along with the needs, the practices as well as the authority in both
technical knowledge and language (Medway, Roper and Gillooly 2018). The problem of
plagiarism can be overcome with the involvement of a co-author and proofreading the content.
Self- plagiarism – Many researchers work on multiple articles and journals and even if the
thoughts are different similar sections can be found in the articles, and the following cases may
cause the papers to fall into plagiarism.
Duplication and Redundancy – this may also be called as dual publication and here the
publications provided by a particular research article in more than one or more than journal can
cause this type of plagiarism (Kermek and Novak2016). Besides this, the dual publication
sometimes is not considered to be plagiarism, and it can be accepted as ethical for summaries
and abstract which represents proceedings of the conference and is published for extending the
original paper. An article published in one language can be republished but the second article
should have mentioned about the original article.
Salami Slicing – In some cases the researchers may have different aspects, and various articles
may be generated on a different section such as methodology and literature review of research.
The results can also be spat up for generating other research papers. For these types of papers,
the problem statement and the introduction are similar to each other. Thus it becomes difficult
for the researcher to write the same concept is other words and there is some author that copy
text from the previous papers published by them.