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FSES RESEARCH PROGRAMME HANDBOOK 2023/2024 ACADEMIC SESSION

(In accordance with Section 6 of Prohibition Against Plagiarism, Part II, General Discipline,
Universities and University College Act, 1971 University of 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 invention of another person and claiming that the
idea, writing, data or invention is the result of one‟s own findings or creation; or

(b) an attempt to make out or the act of making out, in such a way, that one is the original
source or the creator of an idea, writing, data or invention which has actually been taken
from some other source.

3. Without prejudice to the generality of subrule (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 persons;

(b) incorporates himself and 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, scientific or academic 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 findings 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research, whether published or unpublished, and incorporate those data as part of his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 of 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 co-researchers prior to embarking on his
personal research or prior to publishing the data;

(f) transcribes the ideas or 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 modifications
without due reference to the original source and rearranges them in such a way that it
appears as if he is the creator of those ideas .

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