Posts about: self-plagiarism

Recycling your thesis text – is it self plagiarism?

Recycling your thesis text – is it self plagiarism?

The term self-plagiarism is usually associated with re-using your own work, recycling slabs of material already published, cutting and pasting from one text to another, producing something which duplicates something that has already appeared elsewhere. Self-plagiarism is not the same as stealing someone else’s work and passing it off as your own, that’s plagiarism. Nor […]…