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Every college student understands that you can’t plagiarize and plagiarism is prohibited. What many students don’t realize, however, is that self-plagiarism can also lead to disciplinary ...
"Nice piece on plagiarism (assuming it was your own)," someone wrote to me a couple of weeks ago. "You should do a follow up on self-plagiarism, something that I have occasionally perpetrated." The ...
Interestingly -- and, as it turns out, problematically -- one of the most widely accessed guides is iThenticate’s own 2011 white paper “The Ethics of Self-Plagiarism.” In a Google search for ...
Self-plagiarism may seem a smaller infraction than stealing another author's work, but the practice is under increasing scrutiny, as the eruption two weeks ago of a long-standing controversy at ...
Some instructors consider this to be unethical self-plagiarism, whereas others do not. The concept is so broad that reasonable people can disagree about what constitutes plagiarism.