IRM1501 PORTFOLIO (IRM1501)

IRM1501 PORTFOLIO QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2022. MODULE: INTRODUCTION TO THE RESEARCH METHODOLOGY FIRST SEMESTER: PORTFOLIO EXAMINATION CLOSING DATE: 15 MAY 2022 Question 1 Discussion about plagiarism Plagiarism is an offence committed when someone unlawfully and intentionally takes ownership of someone else‟s novelty without acknowledging the origin of the source. That includes copying of another person's ideas, text or other creative work, and presenting it as one's own, especially w...

IRM1501 PORTFOLIO QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2022. MODULE: INTRODUCTION TO THE RESEARCH METHODOLOGY FIRST SEMESTER: PORTFOLIO EXAMINATION CLOSING DATE: 15 MAY 2022 Question 1 Discussion about plagiarism Plagiarism is an offence committed when someone unlawfully and intentionally takes ownership of someone else‟s novelty without acknowledging the origin of the source. That includes copying of another person's ideas, text or other creative work, and presenting it as one's own, especially...

IRM 1501 Portfolio examination INTRODUCTION TO RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

IRM1501 PORTFOLIO First Semester EXAM. QUESTION 1 Discuss plagiarism and make examples where necessary. [10 marks] The Oxford English Dictionary defines plagiarism as, “the action or practice of plagiarising; the wrongful appropriations or purloining, and publication as one’s own, of the ideas, or the expression of the ideas of another,” as well as the “fraud that occurs when a researcher steals the ideas or writings of another or uses them without citing the source.”1 For exa...