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Medical researchers in non-English countries and concerns about unintentional plagiarism
Hosseini, Mehrdad Jalalian Bazargani, Reyhaneh Latiff, Latiffah Hanachi, Parichehr
Hosseini, Mehrdad Jalalian
Bazargani, Reyhaneh
Latiff, Latiffah
Hanachi, Parichehr
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"In the area of publishing ethics, plagiarism is addressed in all scholarly disciplines as a major academic fraud which poses a threat to the validity and reliability of published works. Plagiarism is a hard to define term frequently used in the literature; however, the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary of Current English defined it as “to copy another person’s ideas, words or work and pretend that they are your own”. In most cases of plagiarism, a kind of dishonesty to mislead readers can be identified; but most students are confused about its exact meaning. Actually, they are not efficiently skillful in correctly summarizing, paraphrasing and citing the original resources. Clearly, we concern about the unintentional plagiarism by young researchers who are not familiar with strategies to avoid plagiarism but require publishing their original works or ideas in other languages than their native language. The problem is particularly significant in countries where the researchers, for the promise of the promotion, were compelled by the academic institutes to publish their papers in reputable English journals, whereas English is not their first language. Lacking sufficient abilities in writing skills, the young scholars may feel frustrated and unable to transform their original ideas into perfectly acceptable written works. They may subsequently learn from the peers either to use internet to commit a simple cut and paste crime or to employ a word processing superficially to convert the mechanics of the other’s works into a new paper. [...]", p. 1
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