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Ethical Use of Information: Understanding Plagiarism and Copyright in Research

How to detect plagiarism? Turnitin

Safe similarity. Instructor judge by information provided in the similarity report.

How to avoid plagiarism?

1. Paraphrase + cite:
   Restate another person’s ideas in your own words and cite the source properly.
   Use when you wish to refer to sentences or ideas in the source text

2. Direct quote + cite:

Quote another person’s words without any changing using quotation marks and cite the source properly.
Used for a definition, theory, law, a specific term or a powerful statement.

3. References List
   Include all the sources cited in the work in references using a standard citation style.

Some strategies to paraphrase

1. Completely understand the idea of the passage before paraphrasing.

2. Use synonyms for all words that are not generic. Words like world, food, or science are generic so that there is no need to find a synonym.

3. Change the structure of the sentence.

4. Change the voice from active to passive and vice versa.

5. Change clauses to phrases and vice versa.

6. Change parts of speech.

How to cite GenAI content?

Most referencing styles have no specific guidelines for citing GhatGPT or other GenAI tools.

Refer to official sites of citation styles and Referencing Guides developed by ELC unless specific instructions are provided.

E.g. APA 7th Referencing guide

In-text citations: Author of generative AI model, Year of version used.

E.g. (OpenAI. 2023)/ OpenAI (2023)

Reference:

Author of AI model used. (Year of AI model used). Name of AI model used) [Type oe description of AI model used], Web address of AI model used.

E.g. OpenAI. (2023). ChatGPT (Mar 14 version) [Large language model]. https://chat.openai.com/chat

1)     Plagiarism vs. Copyright Infringement

• Plagiarism: Passing off someone else's ideas or words as one's own without crediting the source
  -> Academic dishonesty
• Copyright infringement: Unauthorized or prohibited use of works covered by copyright law
  -> Legal offence

2. Seek permission from copyright owner

Publishers' guidelines regarding how to request a permission to reuse their copyrighted content.

·         Wiley - Rights & Permissions

·         Elsevier - Permission Guidelines

·         Springer - Obtaining permissions.

·         Taylor & Francis - How can request permission to photocopy, republish or translate material from a journal?

·         IEEE- Requesting Permission to Reuse IEEE Material

·         Nature - Permission requests