This classmate in the news is a typical paper media transaction. The so-called thesis counseling agency is actually a thesis intermediary, which is very unprofessional. It took money from copying students, but instead of helping to write papers, it copied other people's papers behind a "client's back, and finally the scandal was exposed.
Citation and plagiarism are both writing methods, but they are quite different in nature. The former belongs to fair use as stipulated in the copyright law, while the latter belongs to illegal infringement. Let's take a closer look:
1, quoting is to borrow other people's writing theory to express their views.
In the creation of works, quotation is an important means of writing. No matter in the fields of literature, art, science and technology, probably all people who are engaged in writing will not use it. Especially in scientific research, it is a lofty cause that people admire to borrow the academic achievements of predecessors, innovate, create new knowledge and benefit human society. If properly cited in academic works, it can not only explain the truth clearly, but also leave a good impression of being knowledgeable.
Plagiarism is to take others' achievements as your own.
Although plagiarism can also be said to be a means of writing, it is an act of getting something for nothing, taking other people's labor as your own. On the other hand, plagiarism is different. Plagiarism is the process of adding other people's words into one's own works as one's own point of view. Of course, this is just an understanding of the text, the biggest difference is the format, and the reference needs to use reference symbols. At present, many schools have certain restrictions on the citation of papers. It's impossible to say the whole quote. With the beginning and the end of the citation, such a paper is naturally unqualified, can not be counted as citation, can only be counted as plagiarism.
3. In the news, the plagiarism of an undergraduate student in the School of Physical Sciences of Nankai University is "using or imitating the language and thoughts of another author and expressing them as his own original works", which is a completely new plagiarism. Although the content of this Nankai University student's paper was abridged, his plagiarism was blatant, and he directly translated other people's papers from English into Chinese.
For whistleblowers and alleged plagiarists, both of them are college students. In recent two years, the employment pressure of college students is great, and the competition between schools is extremely fierce. They are all students who have studied hard for decades. They all choose to study for a doctorate in order to improve their competitiveness, but if they want to succeed through shortcuts, such academic misconduct is really despicable. At this time, Miss Zhai Tianlin will be remembered again forever. ...
This incident once again sounded the alarm for students. There is no shortcut to learning. Only by persisting in struggle step by step can we reach the other side of our dreams. Otherwise, you can only shoot yourself in the foot. There are many problems behind this incident:
Professional thesis counseling institutions can coach papers. It seems that academic level fraud can be so easy.
It costs money to publish a paper, and you can eat both journals. Academics are so cheap!
Thesis focuses on form, and academics are only the behavior recognized by enterprises.
Since the undergraduate thesis needs to be operated by the "thesis guidance organization", how can the recommended doctors be "recommended" through layers? Is the recommendation procedure open and transparent?
Regarding this matter, I would like to say that plagiarism and buying papers are all academic misconduct, so we must have zero tolerance, be honest in scientific research, and don't take shortcuts. After this incident, I'm afraid the student's learning style will be affected to some extent. Peking University also made a detailed investigation and response to this, and we also expect that this matter can be properly handled to keep the academic circle clean.
5. My personal writing experience.
Generally, before writing a paper, we will communicate with our own tutor, then sort out the overall idea of the paper, determine the overall framework of the paper, consult a large number of relevant reference materials, make a summary, communicate with our tutor, and then start writing the content of the paper.
Thesis writing is actually a process of learning and summarizing oneself. If you can cite other people's papers to prove your theoretical argument, it also shows that your comprehensive ability is relatively strong. There is a problem that needs attention. If the quoted content is inappropriate, it may lead to an increase in the repetition rate of the paper, which is likely to be considered plagiarism, so the paper written in this way is unqualified.
When writing a paper, if you quote other people's articles, you must indicate the author, and then indicate the subject, author and content source in the cited documents. In addition, another situation that we need to pay attention to is that when using quotation marks, don't use periods to express references easily. Once there is a period, the following content will be regarded as plagiarism.
Quotation marks are usually at the end of the period by default, so the system refers to the content by default. If the format is incorrect, it may be considered as a reference by itself, and the system will not regard it as a reference, resulting in an error, so the quotation format must be written correctly. The contents quoted must be consistent with the contents of the following references. If the reference symbol is used in front, the following references will not be marked, or there is no reference symbol in the reference, and the system will not recognize it, resulting in the article being regarded as plagiarism.
This incident also warns people in the academic field that honesty is the life of academics and hopes to establish a true, scientific and rigorous academic attitude. Citation and plagiarism are both writing methods, but they are quite different in nature. The former belongs to fair use as stipulated in the copyright law, while the latter belongs to illegal infringement.