If plagiarism involves stealing someone else’s ideas and words and if you agree that you cannot steal from yourself, then the term “self-plagiarism” is an oxymoron
- Pratyoush Onta
Nobody describes your act of transferring a thousand rupees note from the pocket in your pants to the pocket in your shirt as stealing. Similarly, if you wish to include some of your own published words in your own new writing, it cannot be called plagiarism
Nov 18, 2017-Plagiarism in intellectual work is stealing someone else’s ideas and/or words and passing them on as one’s own. For academics in many parts of the world, it is a career-ending moral crime because our enterprise of knowledge production relies fundamentally on trust between member practitioners.