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PROHIBITION AGAINTS PLAGIARISM

                        Extract from Universiti Malaya (Discipline of Students) Rules 1999

               (1) A student shall not plagiarize any idea/writing, data or invention belonging to another
               person.

               (2) For the purposes of this rule, plagiarism includes:

                a) The act of taking an idea, writing, data or  b) An attempt to  make out or the act of making
                invention  of  another  person  and  claiming  out, in such a way that one is original source or
                that  the  idea,  writing,  data  or  invention  is  the creator of an idea, writing, data or invention
                the result of one’s own findings or creation;  which has actually  been taken from some other
                or                                           resources

               (3) Without prejudice to the generality of sub-rules (2) a student plagiarizes when he:


                 a)    Publishes, with himself as the author, an abstract, article, scientific or academic paper or
                 book which is wholly or partly written by some other person;

                 b)    Incorporates himself or allows himself to be incorporated as a co-author of an abstract,
                 article,  scientific  or  academic  paper,  or  book,  when  he  has  not  at  all  made  any  written
                 contribution to the abstract, article, paper, or book;

                 c)    Forces another person to include his name in the list of co-researchers for a particular
                 research  project  or  in  the  list  of  co-authors  for  a  publication  when  he  has  not  made  any
                 contribution which may qualify him as a co- researcher or co-author;
                 d)    Extracts  academic  data  which  are  the  results  of  research  undertaken  by  some  other
                 person,  such  as  laboratory  finding  or  field  work  findings  or  data  obtained  through  library
                 research,  whether  published  or  unpublished,  and  incorporate  those  data  as  part  of  his
                 academic research without giving due acknowledgement to the actual source;
                 e)    Uses  research  data  obtained  through  collaborative  work  with  some  other  person,
                 whether or not that other person is a staff member or a student of the University, as part of
                 another distinct personal academic, research of his, or for a publication in his own name as
                 sole author without obtaining the consent of his personal research or prior to publishing the
                 data;
                 f)    Transcribes  the  ideas  of  creations  of  others  kept  in  whatever  form  whether  written,
                 printed or available in electronic form, or in slide form, or in whatever form of teaching or
                 research apparatus or in any other form, and claims whether directly or indirectly that he is
                 the creator of that idea or creation;
                 g)    Translates  the  writing  or  creation  of  another  person  from  one  language  to  another
                 whether or not wholly or partly, and subsequently presents the translation in whatever form
                 or manner as his own writing or creation; or
                 h)    Extracts ideas from another person’s writing or creation and makes certain modification
                 due reference to the originals source and rearranges the min such a way that it appears as if he
                 is the creator of those ideas.


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