Plagiarism Assignment

Student No.: 4800187

Student Name: Huang Xiaojing

Date:3 May 2015

SISAT

School of Information Systems & Technology

Assignment 1

IACT 201 Professional Practice and ethics

2015 Full Time/Part Time (SIM Singapore)

Comparison of Plagiarism

3 Academic Journals on computing

Plagiarism is the "wrongful appropriation" and "stealing and publication" of another author's "language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions" and the representation of them as one's own original work. — From Wikipedia [1]

Plagiarism is the action or practice to steal someone else’s work, idea, etc, and passing it off as one’s own. It is a serious act as it infringement others copyright. This is particularly a problem in computer science, where the ideal solution to a problem

This plagiarized work are sometime been referred or searched first before the original author work, which make the original author credit been "forgotten". The credit will be seen to be given to the plagiarized work where this work only simply contains works of others, and not the work of the plagiarism author. (3)The self assorted plagiarism:

The self absorbed plagiarism refers to author that reuse and republish their own works in different articles with different titles. By doing so, it increase the author number of publication of their "new" works online. The authors may just reuse part of their previous work, rephrase it, and reformat the layout, before publishing it as a new article with new title.

(4)The accidental plagiarism:

The accidental plagiarism refers to sometime, maybe the sources are cited, but the detail inside the source doesn’t indicate properly. Sometimes the references quotation themselves maybe not be original.

There are 3 academic journals to be comparison:[4]

• IEEE Computer

• ACM (the Association for Computing

Especially for IEEE’s systematic and complete procedures, most of plagiarism or suspicious cases are prevented in the first place from making a big loss in terms of economic and reputation, which eventually results in IEEE getting more and more recognition from researchers worldwide, and always keeping a high standard while they are growing very big with a lot of sub-institutes. Plagiarism prevention has played an important role in its