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how-to-write-a-masters-thesis [2022/01/06 12:12]
strakova [Referencing, Plagiarism and These Things (Don't Skip Me!)] Plagiarism |
how-to-write-a-masters-thesis [2022/01/06 12:16]
strakova [Referencing, Plagiarism and These Things (Don't Skip Me!)] |
| Generally, plagiarism is presenting someone else's work/idea/text/source code as your own. Specifically, anything that appears in your thesis and is not referenced or is not general knowledge, is being presented by you as your work/idea/text/source code, unless properly referenced. Some very obvious examples of things that should be referenced are: | Generally, plagiarism is presenting someone else's work/idea/text/source code as your own. Specifically, anything that appears in your thesis and is not referenced or is not general knowledge, is being presented by you as your work/idea/text/source code, unless properly referenced. Some very obvious examples of things that should be referenced are: |
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| - **big inventions with names:** People who invented them should get credit. The first time you mention HMM, NNs, RNNs, LSTM, word embeddings (word2vec, FastText), contextualized word embeddings (BERT, ...), etc. | * **big inventions with names:** People who invented them should get credit. The first time you mention anything with a name, you should consider adding a reference. E.g., HMM, NNs, RNNs, LSTM, word embeddings (word2vec, FastText), contextualized word embeddings (BERT, ...), etc. |
| - **general ideas without names:** The first attempts at solving some problem in a way which is similar to yours, or not similar, but was simply the first. | * **general ideas without names:** The first attempts at solving some problem in a way which is similar to yours, or not similar, but was simply the first. |
| - **copied material**: Any time you copy anything more than a sentence, it should be referenced. Also **definitions**, adopted **figures**, **tables**. | * **copied material**: Any time you copy anything more than a sentence, it should be referenced. Also **definitions**, adopted **figures** and **tables**. |
| - **related publications**: publications closely related to your work. Many master theses are incremental changes to one influential publication - which, obviously, must be referenced. | * **related publications**: publications closely related to your work. Many master theses are incremental changes to one influential publication - which, obviously, must be referenced. |
| - **source code**: Give credit to those who implemented source code you use or build on. It is not necessary to reference Python, but one should reference specialized software (like TensorFlow) and especially the source code you modified. Most source code authors give exact instructions in README about how they wish to be referenced. Usually, by citing a publication. | * **source code**: Give credit to those who implemented source code you use or build on. It is not necessary to reference Python, but one should reference specialized software (like TensorFlow) and especially the source code you modified. Most source code authors give exact instructions in README about how they wish to be referenced. Usually, by citing a publication. |
| - **data**: It is highly unlikely you did not need any data for your thesis. If you did, the data must be referenced. Most datasets are described in an accompanying publication. Some (older ones) are not, then at least give the url in footnote. | * **data**: It is highly unlikely you did not need any data for your thesis. If you did, the data must be referenced. Most datasets are described in an accompanying publication. Some (older ones) are not, then at least give the url in footnote. |
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| Every time you copy/reproduce a sentence/definition/figure/table, the reference must be repeated. It is not OK to state in the beginning of the section "And from now on, I shall draw from publication XY" and then go on three pages freely mixing your text and sentences from XY. With some exceptions, it is also not OK to copy entire paragraphs or pages, even if they are properly referenced, as you are supposed to write you own thesis, not copy someone else's work. It is however allright if you introduce/explain an idea with a proper reference and then discuss the idea in the next three paragraphs without referencing it again and again. If your discussion, however, replicates someone else's opinion, you should reference it, e.g. "Our data support hypothesis ABC, as well as results of REF-to-XY." | Every time you copy/reproduce a sentence/definition/figure/table, the reference must be repeated. It is not OK to state in the beginning of the section "And from now on, I shall draw from publication XY" and then go on three pages freely mixing your text and sentences from XY. With some exceptions, it is also not OK to copy entire paragraphs or pages, even if they are properly referenced, as you are supposed to write you own thesis, not copy someone else's work. It is however allright if you introduce/explain an idea with a proper reference and then discuss the idea in the next three paragraphs without referencing it again and again. If your discussion, however, replicates someone else's opinion, you should reference it, e.g. "Our data support hypothesis ABC, as well as results of REF-to-XY." |
| Less obvious and not always necessary references may be required by: | Less obvious and not always necessary references may be required by: |
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| - sentences like ''It is (generally) considered that ...'', ''It is (generally) thought that ...'' are always tricky and will attract ttention. By whom it is considered? Ideally they would be supported by references to publications. | * sentences like ''It is (generally) considered that ...'', ''It is (generally) thought that ...'' are tricky and will attract attention. By whom it is considered? Ideally they would be supported by references to publications. |
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