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PLAGIARISM
(A) Prohibition against plagiarism
(1) A student shall not plagiarize any idea, writing, data or invention belonging to
another person.
(2) For the purpose 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
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 generally 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 coauthor 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obtained through library research, whether published or unpublished and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 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 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 creation of those ideas.
