IRM1501 Portfolio
Super Semester
2023
, QUESTION 1
The Oxford English Dictionary defines plagiarism as the “action or practice of
plagiarising; the wrongful appropriations or purloining, and publication as one’s own,
of the ideas, or expression of the ideas … of another”. Furthermore, it is “fraud that
occurs when a researcher steals the ideas or writings of another or uses them without
citing the source”.1 There are different forms of plagiarism:
1. It arises in situations where a researcher fails or omits to indicate clearly, for
example with quotation marks or indent and different font, phrases or passages
taken verbatim, that is, word for word, from a published or unpublished text, without
crediting the original text and author.
2. It occurs in cases where a statute, case law, book, article, or electronic text is
paraphrased without acknowledging the source or sources and the author thereof.
3. It arises in circumstances where more than a substantial part of or the entire
statute, case law, book, article, or electronic text is used.2
1 Swanepoel M and Mabeka N Introduction to Research and Methodology (Only Study Guide
for IRM1501) 44.
2 Swanepoel and Mabeka Introduction to Research and Methodology 45.
Super Semester
2023
, QUESTION 1
The Oxford English Dictionary defines plagiarism as the “action or practice of
plagiarising; the wrongful appropriations or purloining, and publication as one’s own,
of the ideas, or expression of the ideas … of another”. Furthermore, it is “fraud that
occurs when a researcher steals the ideas or writings of another or uses them without
citing the source”.1 There are different forms of plagiarism:
1. It arises in situations where a researcher fails or omits to indicate clearly, for
example with quotation marks or indent and different font, phrases or passages
taken verbatim, that is, word for word, from a published or unpublished text, without
crediting the original text and author.
2. It occurs in cases where a statute, case law, book, article, or electronic text is
paraphrased without acknowledging the source or sources and the author thereof.
3. It arises in circumstances where more than a substantial part of or the entire
statute, case law, book, article, or electronic text is used.2
1 Swanepoel M and Mabeka N Introduction to Research and Methodology (Only Study Guide
for IRM1501) 44.
2 Swanepoel and Mabeka Introduction to Research and Methodology 45.
