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Plagiarism is a misconduct act and a scourge for science. Plagiarism perpetrators steal
other author's work without citing the original references. Psychology is one of the most
vulnerable sciences with plagiarism and must give more attention to this issue. Several
types of plagiarism can be distinguished to the plagiarism motivation (intentional,
unintentional, and inadvertent), how to do plagiarism (patchwriting, inappropriate
paraphrasing, and summaries) and self-plagiarism (text recycling, redundant or
duplicate publication, salami-slicing or data fragmentation). There are several reasons
to do plagiarism, such as ease to get information via the internet, pressure on academic
tasks, bad writing skill, hurry to write under pressure, lack of understanding how to
rewrite the original reference, a misconception to understanding self-plagiarism, and
habitual plagiarists. This article also presents steps to avoid plagiarism, such as
avoiding "intellectual theft", doing good writing (citation and paraphrasing), and testing
the similarity test (plagiarism detection service). |
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