CBSE Class 12 Informatics Practices
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Societal Impacts — Question 55
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Question A research student is expected to write a thesis on a topic. The student browses Internet for the topic and luckily finds it on the Internet. He copies and submits the entire thesis as his own research work. Which of the following activities appropriately categorises the act of the writer ?
- Spamming
- Phishing
- Plagiarism
- Trojan
Plagiarism
Reason — Plagiarism is the act of stealing someone else's intellectual work and presenting it as our own without citing the original source of information. In this case, the student copied the entire thesis from the internet and claimed it as his own research work, which is a case of plagiarism.