Pirangi, Shivanna and Huded, Sidlingappa M. and Kumbar, Bhuvaneshwari
(2020)
Can I copy this? awareness about plagiarism among research scholars of Karnataka State Akkamahadevi Women’s University, Vijayapura : a study.
Journal of Information Management and Educational Technology, 4 (2 - 3).
pp. 13-21.
ISSN 2456 6144
Abstract
The present study carried out to know the awareness of plagiarism among research scholars of
Karnataka State Akkamahadevi Women’s University, Vijayapura (India). A structured
questionnaire was designed and distributed among research scholars to collect their opinion on
the topic. This study found that the majority of the scholars 68 (100%) are aware of various
kinds of plagiarism and many 44 (64.71%) of them learnt about plagiarism through fellow
scholars. This study also investigates that most of the scholars are 47 (69.12%) aware of Urkund,
a plagiarism detection software, and 31 (45.59%) of them know about APA (American
Psychological Association) reference style. A 48 (70.59%) are copying other works as they felt
that hard to find original ideas/thoughts and because of laziness and 47 (69.12%) of them are
giving proper citations to avoid the plagiarism
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