Plagiarism Policy
CMR Engineering College framed a research policy wherein, any type of research/academic work should undergo the Institute’s ethical process of plagiarism and also has to preserve high academic and production standards. Ethics and plagiarism are the noteworthy components in research and publication. Ethical policy makes authors responsible for their research work which is carried out in the form of Project reports, Seminar papers, Research papers, Research proposals and thesis work. The Research & Development Committee is responsible for developing code of ethics and monitoring ethical policies/guidelines related to research/academic publications.
About Plagiarism
Plagiarism comprises unethical scientific behavior and it is never acceptable. There are different levels of plagiarism, which are listed below from most to least serious:
- Reporting someone else's work as your own
- Copying someone else's work and report same in your work
- Reporting ideas from someone else work without giving him/her credit
- Failing to mention a quotation in quotation marks
- Reporting incorrect citation about the source of a quotation
- Using sentence structure from someone else's work without him/her credit
- Copying & reporting almost words or ideas from someone else work and reporting as a new work
Code of Ethics in CMREC
- Take good literature/notes
- While reviewing the literature, make a note of important sentences/words/ideas that you think you might use in your research paper
- Note the citation details like the author’s name, title of paper, volume, page number and year of publication so that you can easily mention citation it in your research paper
- Develop a systematic system of note-taking that works for you
- Correct /Appropriate Citation
- At any place you chose words from another source like Web material/research paper/book/any published material then you must give him /her proper credit in your work (Research paper/Thesis/Presentation)
- Even if you don't use someone else's sentences/words/phrases, but you refer to an concept/technology from another source, you must also give him /her proper credit in your work (Research paper/Thesis/Presentation)
- Citing your sources' means reporting all of the details about your source like author’s name, title of paper, volume and page number and year of publication. Hence, anyone can easily find that source again
- Use quotes efficiently
- If you are selecting someone else's exact words/sentences in your Paper/Thesis/Presentation you must put those words/sentences in quotation marks. If you change some words here and it is not enough to remove plagiarism. It is suggested that rewrite/rephrase it wholly in your own words
- Create your own argument using your own words for supporting your arguments or clarify important points
- Paraphrase correctly
- In a paraphrase, you rewrite what some other person has aforesaid in your own approach. even as you've got a personality that's totally different from everybody else's, you as a author have your own voice and magnificence. Once you write, even once you are paraphrasing, your writing ought to sound adore it came from you, not from some other person
- Plagiarism Check
- Check the content with Plagiarism software. If the matching is less than 20% the content is allowed to be published. If not, the content has to be revised