Tag Archives: 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 … Continue reading

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citing yourself  – in the text

Writing about your own work is sometimes tricky. There are ‘secretarial’ text issues involved in using your own work. I’ll talk here about how you refer to yourself and the work, and the vexed question of self-plagiarism. writing your work … Continue reading

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self plagiarism and online publication… some musings

I’m a journal editor, one of a collective that edits the Educational Action Research Journal. One of the conditions of getting published in our journal is that authors sign an agreement which, among other things, says that the work isn’t … Continue reading

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