Thursday, June 27, 2013

PLAGIARISM


The use of this term now a day’s getting more and more common among the scientific community. According to Dictionary.com plagiarism means “an act or instance of using or closely imitating the language and thoughts of another author without authorization and the representation of that author's work as one's own, as by not crediting the original author”.




Recently, an article was published in Indian Journal of Urology by Panda and Kekre. The authors tried to shed some light on this burning issue. They gave some reasons why the plagiarism occurs and how to avoid them. The most interesting suggestion of them is proper education to the young researchers. The link of the article is -http://www.indianjurol.com/temp/IndianJUrol29287-5722709_013522.pdf.


Here I am suggesting a better way to add the missing citations to your article which might be missed during the writing of the article and it may cause you the victim of plagiarism. The name of the software is Viper, very user-friendly and easy to use. Above all it is totally free and you just need a system and internet connection. The link of the software is http://www.scanmyessay.com/

Simply download it from the above site and install it on your PC and make a user account. Now according to the picture click on the “ADD” button and choose your article file and select article category of the paper e.g. Biology, now click on “SCAN” and wait until the process completed and make changes according to your need.



And one more suggestion don’t rely on Wikipedia because it allows to anyone to edit it.


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