This presentation deals with the understanding of plagiarism, how to avoid it in the digital era wherein there are more chances of committing plagiarism unknowingly

1. Research Methodology Workshop
Avoid Plagiarism
Research in Digital
Era
Dilip Barad, Ph.D.
M.K. Bhavnagar University
Gujarat
dilipbarad@gmail.com
www.dilipbarad.com

2. In this session, we shall
discuss . . .
1. How to pronounce Plagiarism?
2. What is the meaning of Plagiarism?
3. Why is it necessary to understand Plagiarism?
4. How to know Plagiarism?
5. How to avoid Plagiarism?

3. 1. Correct way to
Pronounce & Meaning
1. How to pronounce Plagiarism?
2. What is the meaning of Plagiarism?
1. Encarta Dictionary meaning; Pronounce video1, 2; meaning
video 1, 2 (/g/ is Germany, germ; and NOT /get/, /grey/, /grocery/

4. 2. Necessity to understand
1. Why is it necessary to understand Plagiarism?
1. For academic integrity & honesty
2. Internet resources – advantage / disadvantage
3. Books ? (It was and is difficult to identify plagiarism
in the works which have used offline book resources)
4. Some real life examples . . . (Several politicians in
Hungary, Germany have to resign on the charges of
plagiarism)

7. 3. Ways to Understand
Plagiarism
1. How to know Plagiarism?
1. 10 types of unoriginal works (Download from this link)
1. http://turnitin.com/assets/en_us/media/plagiarism_spectrum.php
2. How can I know if my re/source is a plagiarized one?
(SEER – Source Educational Evaluation Rubric)
1. Download rubric from
http://www.atlm.edu/downloads/Turnitin_SEER_Rubric.pdf

8. 4. Documentation
1. How to avoid Plagiarism?
1. Documentation – as per prescribed style (subject specific
1. Take help of referencing tools . . . Or
2. Use MS Word feature of Referencing
• Other Online platforms - Reference Management Tools
• Mendeley
• Zotero
• EndNoteWeb
• Documentation styles for Engineering / Humanities Research Writings:
• https://engineering.library.cornell.edu/services/Citation-Style-Guide
• http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/citation/asme.html
• http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/citation/ieee.html
• Screen shots 1, 2, 3

9. 5. Online Tools to check
Originality of work
• Online tools to help in avoiding Plagiarism
• Urkund
• Turnitin (Originality Checker & Online Grading Tools – for
educators)
• iThentica (for researchers)
• WriteCheck (for students)
• Grammarly
• PaperRater
• . . . And many . . .

10. Thank you
• The presentation can be
downloaded from
www.dilipbarad.com