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What Is Plagiarism?

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Plagiarism is a form of academic dishonesty, and the importance of honesty in human society is not a new topic!

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Zhang, Y.(. (2016). What Is Plagiarism?. In: Against Plagiarism. Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Scientific and Scholarly Communication. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24160-9_1

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