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(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 original source or the
creator of an idea, writing, data or invention
which has actually been taken from some other
resources
(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 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published or unpublished, and incorporate those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 original source and rearranges
them in such a way that it appears as if he is the
creator of those ideas.
Prohibition Against
PLAGIARISM
extract from University of Malaya (Discipline of Students) Rules 1999