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on 31-Jan-02 01:05 AM
Dictionary.com says:
PLAGIARISM n 1: a piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work 2: the act of plagiarizing; taking someone's words or ideas as if they were your own .
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I did not exactly understand the meaning of this word
when it first appeared in this site long time back. Khati and Ashu
were using it repeatedly. Well, I understood what they meant.
Then, I double clicked on the word, I wanted to know what this
word refers in dictionaries. Thanks San, for the provision "double click".
Well, when I wrote my doctoral thesis, I spent several months/yrs to
locate the reference material that were related to me and summarized
all the works in my thesis's first part dedicated as a Literature Review.
Well, in my Department, the thesis and its flow (content is
not of use to all) and presentation style was at least got
some recognition among Foreign Student that several
friends of mine who graduated later copied my format and
that I found it a great pride of writing a thesis that can be
useful to others who are not even in your own field. So, several
friends got my thesis. Well, I was running out of my 250copies
printed in press. Then, some peoples requested my thesis from
very far distance not only in Japan, but, from different continents.
I went on distributing the copies. Some even complained that my
Ph.D. thesis was with only 170pages (I still consider, I would have
brought it down to 100pages) . . . . . [I heard that the Gauss (whose
one of the works is Gauss distribution, as we all know. His picture
and Gauss Distribution are published in German currency note too)
wrote his Ph.d. thesis just in less than 10pages and all the external
examiners were surprised with the thesis size and that had
all mathematical equations. .... ] Several years later when
I received a complimentary copy from someone whom I also sent my
thesis as a complimentary copy, I was so much disappointed that
the guy copied 28pages of my thesis almost in the same sequence
and same content, nothing more nothing minus. What it gave me
is that he might have disillusioned his university that he did
study a lot of references before he commenced his research work.
and has learned whats going on his research area.
Is not it a plagarism? What prize he deserves from me?
A sad story, and I have no word for him. He might have fooled
the world, but, my work was published even before he started
to work on the area, so how can he claim it as his original
without giving any reference to my thesis.
I regret very much for sending my costly thesis (paid $10. /copy
to the press) to him. What will you do if you encounter such person
in future, I mean if the person comes in-front of you and
try to be smart that you don't know that he copied your work.
Or, he believes that he has right to copy.
God Bless Him.
HahooGuru
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