From: Why do postgraduate students commit plagiarism? An empirical study
Offences of plagiarism | Admitted by students | Encountered by academics | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Always | Frequently | Rarely | Never | Always | Frequently | Rarely | Never | |
% | % | % | % | % | % | % | % | |
Paraphrased work without acknowledging original author | 1.9 | 11.3 | 56.6 | 30.2 | 11.1 | 63 | 18.5 | 7.4 |
Summarising text without acknowledgement | 3.8 | 13.5 | 48.1 | 34.6 | 11.1 | 51.9 | 29.6 | 7.4 |
Copy text word by word without acknowledgement | 1.9 | 3.8 | 22.6 | 71.7 | 3.8 | 38.5 | 42.3 | 15.4 |
Submitted someone’s work without their permission | 0 | 0 | 7.5 | 92.5 | 0 | 7.4 | 25.9 | 66.7 |
Invented or altered data | 0 | 3.8 | 24.5 | 71.7 | 0 | 14.8 | 37 | 48.1 |
Written an assignment for friend | 0 | 1.9 | 15.1 | 83 | 0 | 12 | 36 | 52 |
Using quotation marks without proper citation or acknowledge | 1.9 | 9.4 | 45.3 | 43.4 | 7.7 | 23.1 | 57.7 | 11.5 |
Invented references or bibliography | 0 | 1.9 | 20.8 | 77.4 | 0 | 7.7 | 42.3 | 50 |
Submitted work as an individual while written as group work | 0 | 7.5 | 15.1 | 77.4 | 3.7 | 3.7 | 44.4 | 48.1 |
Copy work from internet & submit it as your own | 0 | 3.8 | 13.2 | 83 | 7.7 | 19.2 | 46.2 | 26.9 |