10.5281/ZENODO.268123
Nader Ale Ebrahim نادر آل ابراهیم
University of Malaya, Malaysia
Embi, Mohamed Amin
Mohamed Amin
Embi
National University of Malaysia
Mohammadjafari, Marjan
Marjan
Mohammadjafari
University of Malaya, Malaysia
Nader Ale Ebrahim نادر آل ابراهیم
University of Malaya, Malaysia
Zavvari, Azam
Azam
Zavvari
Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
Moghadam, Masoomeh Shahbazi
Masoomeh Shahbazi
Moghadam
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia - UTM
Shakiba, Masoud
Masoud
Shakiba
Monash University (Malaysia)
Ethical And Unethical Methods Of Plagiarism Prevention In Academic Writing
Zenodo
2017
Journal article
Academic Writing
Plagiarism
Ethical Approaches
Research tools
Nader Ale Ebrahim
Plagiarism Prevention
Academic Cheating
Unethical Approaches
2017-02-03
https://zenodo.org/record/268123
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
Open Access
This paper discusses plagiarism origins, and the ethical solutions to prevent it. It also reviews some unethical approaches, which may be used to decrease the plagiarism rate in academic writings. We propose eight ethical techniques to avoid unconscious and accidental plagiarism in manuscripts without using online systems such as Turnitin and/or iThenticate for cross checking and plagiarism detection. The efficiency of the proposed techniques is evaluated on five different texts using students individually. After application of the techniques on the texts, they were checked by Turnitin to produce the plagiarism and similarity report. At the end, the \" effective factor \" of each method has been compared with each other; and the best result went to a hybrid combination of all techniques to avoid plagiarism. The hybrid of ethical methods decreased the plagiarism rate reported by Turnitin from nearly 100% to the average of 8.4% on 5 manuscripts.