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Questions tagged [self-plagiarism]

Self-plagiarism is the unethical reuse or republication of one's own work.

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What should I do about my previous self-plagiarism?

I came across the question "Attitudes towards self-plagiarism" on this site, which asks whether it is OK to reuse text from your own papers without quotation formatting. It seems the answer is no. I didn't know this and I have in fact done this in…
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Re-using a paper from one class for another?

Last year, I wrote a 10 page term paper for a geology class that focused on the geochemistry of certain rock deposits. I received an A on the paper. This year, I'm taking a geochemistry class at a different university and have to write another…
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How to address situtations where the effort to avoid plagiarism results in less effective communication?

I have been contemplating this topic because of something that happened a number of years ago. Do you have any suggestions on alternative ways to handle the following case: A student in one of my community college classes (Introduction to Public…
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Is it self-plagiarism to reuse sources?

I've taken two classes in a row that require research papers to be written as an assignment, and since the second one has had a similar criteria for which topics are allowed, I decided to continue researching the same topic. However, after checking…
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Using the same control pictures/data in two different papers

:-) We would like to ask a question of general interest, as it might be the case in other studies. It is the first time I stumble upon this situation. In our research, we have used the wild-type of a microbial strain and mutants for about 7 distinct…
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Self-plagiarism and supplementary information

I am curious if it is acceptable to produce an identical (or at least only slightly edited) account of a particular, known methodology in the supplementary information of two submitted journal articles, or if this would count as self-plagiarism?
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Can I use one graph of mine in two publications without citing?

I am a researcher working in the field of Catalysis. I was working on two seperate reactions (suppose R1 and R2) which were supposed to be the part of two seperate publications. Reaction R1 has been done by me independently with catalysts A B C, D…
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Would using feedback from an identical prior assignment to improve the new assignment be considered academic misconduct?

Several months prior, I submitted a very late assignment due to personal issues in my real life. My tutor was kind enough to mark it and give me full, proper feedback and even a score and under his recommendation and my own decision, I deferred the…
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Can you self-plagiarize within the same document?

The title is the question: can you plagiarize yourself within the same document? For example within a book of thousand pages, do you have to reference ideas from page 50 when you use them on page 950?
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Do I have to worry about self-plagiarism if I do undergrad research on an original topic that I've put forth considerable information online?

I have a website and blog where I discuss an original topic for which I am considering trying to get a grant for undergrad research. I have basically fleshed out the entire theory on these websites. My question: do I need to worry about…
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how to avoid to being blamed of self-plagiarism in this case?

We have the following "weird" situation in the institution that I am currently working on. We have a master´s degree in CS that requires that the students present a thesis or a research article so that ourinstitution could grant them their MSc…
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Publishing expanded supplementary information as separate paper

I contributed to a paper to a journal in the life sciences. The paper contains a lot of field-specific theory, but the main point relies on a result obtained through some new inference method that I worked out. Since the method was not the focus of…
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Self plagarism with co-authors

I think we can all agree that if I am presenting work that is intended to be new ideas and I present a previously published result of which I am the sole author, that this is self-plagiarism. The clearest example of this is reusing an already…
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Can I copy my own work within the same class?

I've seriously never encountered what I just have, nor have I had to ever ponder this before. I am taking an international business class where we have to write six papers and six journals. I am currently writing my third paper and am now stuck…
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Doing masters in Political Economy

Is it possible to use part of my thesis proposal to help me write another essay on a different assignment ? Or does this amount to "self-plagiarism"? Essentially in the other assignment I want to use parts of my proposal to answer the question, it…
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