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How to deal with plagiarism of postgraduate papers in British universities
Different degrees of severity

The low score means that plagiarism is relatively minor and the punishment is relatively light, including verbal warning and paper rewriting.

However, with the more serious plagiarism, the higher the score, and the more corresponding penalties, including zero score on the paper, no rewriting, and even serious expulsion.

Graders in universities can calculate the severity of students' plagiarism according to this set of standards and give appropriate punishment accordingly.

British academic circles hope that this set of standards can become a unified standard for British higher education institutions to punish students for plagiarism, and even be extended to higher education industries in other countries.

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Example 1

There is a passage in the paper of freshman, the source of which is unknown. This is the first time that the student has been suspected of plagiarism. The situation is 280 points, and the corresponding penalties include:

1, register the official warning;

2, the paper is zero, rewrite the paper.

Example 2

Two paragraphs of a sophomore's 2000-word paper were plagiarized from the internet, and the source was not indicated. The student has registered an official warning, with a score of 400. Punishment measures include:

1, the paper is zero, the paper is rewritten, and the rewritten paper must be deducted;

2. The paper is zero and cannot be rewritten.

Example 3

The third-year college students asked others to write their graduation thesis, and the students have copied it twice, with a score of 635. Punishment measures:

1, the subject is zero, and you can't retake the exam or get subject credits;

2. Demotion of graduation grades;

3. dismissal.

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Relevant laws and regulations of China

Article 2 17 of the Criminal Law stipulates that an individual who commits the crime of copyright infringement shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention, and shall also or only be fined; If the amount of illegal income is huge or there are other particularly serious circumstances, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than seven years and shall also be fined. "The amount of illegal income is huge" and "there are other particularly serious circumstances", please refer to the second paragraph of Article 5 of the Interpretation on Several Issues Concerning the Specific Application of Laws in Handling Criminal Cases of Infringement of Intellectual Property Rights.

Article 220 of the Criminal Law stipulates that if a unit commits the crime of copyright infringement, it shall be fined, and the directly responsible person in charge and other directly responsible personnel shall be punished according to the provisions on individual crime. According to Article 15 of the Interpretation on Several Issues Concerning the Specific Application of Laws in Handling Criminal Cases of Infringement of Intellectual Property Rights, the unit that commits this crime shall be convicted and sentenced according to three times the conviction and sentencing standard of the corresponding individual crime.