title: Plagiarism and scientific writing: a personal commentary.
abstract: There have been a number of papers that have addressed the issue of plagiarism. Nevertheless, the charges of plagiarism usually merit little attention with experts, because it is still not clear what sort of copying actually constitutes plagiarism. Another problem that eludes consensus is whether plagiarism was committed with or without intention. This paper discusses certain issues relating to plagiarism and differentiates between intentional and unintentional forms of plagiarism.
authors.affiliation: Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology, Tamil Nadu Government Dental College and Hospital, Chennai, India. salivaryduct@yahoo.co.uk
authors.forename: Irulandy
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Ponniah
mesh_terms: D015714:Plagiarism; D014956:Writing / Q000592:standards