All About Plagiarism

“It’s none of their business that you have to learn to write. Let them think you were born that way.” – Ernest Hemingway Plato considers art (and therefore writing) as being…

Behavior that would be considered scientific misconduct could occur at all points in a research protocol. You could encounter different types of scientific research misconduct at…

Misconduct: A Question of Intent If we consider the top three categories of scientific misconduct to be, in ascending order, the use of someone else’s work without citation…

Writing a research paper poses challenges in gathering literature and providing evidence for making your paper stronger. Drawing upon previously established ideas and values and…

A fact that is not very widely known or universally accepted by authors is that manuscripts may be rejected without the due and expected peer review process. While manuscripts have…

ESL authors often employ language editors to improve their manuscripts. The editors sometimes encounter cases where the authors have copied sentences from published papers of other…

A practice annoying journal editors and readers alike is the publication of the same paper in different journals—duplicate publication or multiple publication, often called…

A research paper retraction by an academic journal sends a clear message that the validity of the paper has been brought into question. The fellow researchers who may be citing…

You have an article ready to go and you’re anxious to get it published. You know that if you submit to one journal, it could potentially take over a year for it to be published.…

When writing a research paper, a researcher will often need to refer to a previous publication and summarize the findings in a paraphrase. Why? Because quoting the entire passage…

How Do Scientists Cheat? Academic fraud can be broken down into three categories: Plagiarism – the use of a colleague’s work without clear attribution and citation.…

What is Fair Use? The term “fair use” refers to the legal, ethical, and limited use of copyrighted material, with no requirement for the permission of the copyright holder. In…