Master Essay

Plagiarism

Plagiarism is defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as "The action or practice of taking someone else's work, idea, etc., and passing it off as one's own; literary theft".

That is, if you use text paragraphs, text fragments, figures, tables or similar from books, articles, working papers, research reports, newspapers et cetera in your essay, and pass it off as being your own work, this is considered as plagiarism. The simplest and most effective way to avoid any such accusations is to make sure that one uses a strict and complete reference system.

Obviously, any form or attempt to plagiarism is strictly prohibited and will, without delay, be reported to the department's Director of Studies. In a second stage a report is sent to the Discipline Board at Lund University. A typical consequence of plagiarism is suspension from studies during a period of 2-3 months.

As from October 2008, all essays at the Department of Economics are controlled for plagiarism by use of the company Urkund.