As far as universities/collleges are concerned is covering the same question you answered in an exam in a separate essay self-plagiarism?
I've picked a question for my dissertation which it only recently occured to me I may have covered about a year ago in an exam (doh). I can't remember if i did, but i'm quite worried that I could end up repeating myself in my disseration. Of course it'll hardly be reproducing work verbatim, I can't even remember if i've done it!
If it is, how likely is it i'll be caught?
2007-12-10 07:24:54 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Higher Education (University +)
It's probably not that uncommon for someone to do two papers on the same subject in their academic career. I'm guessing that a dissertation is a lot more involved than an exam essay, so as long as you do original research and don't look at your old exam for ideas, you should be fine even if the same themes pop up.
If you don't even have the old exam, then you really don't have anything to worry about, because there is no way you could copy it.
2007-12-10 07:39:55 · answer #1 · answered by jellybeanchick 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you wont be using the exact same material, you are just using the same ideas and the ideas are yours. If you look at most major writers, on almost any subject, over the course of a lifetime they write on only one or two subjects, and their ideas are mostly rehashed and reused. Did they all self plagerize? No. They may be a bit dull and self important, but theives? no!
2007-12-10 07:33:18 · answer #2 · answered by jason frazzano, esq. 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You should be fine. I had a paper that I rewrote for probably eight different classes but as it was my own original work to begin with, and my own intellectual property, it was never plagerism.
2007-12-10 07:32:49 · answer #3 · answered by Lex 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not plagarism if you wrote it, then rewrote it.
2007-12-10 07:29:51 · answer #4 · answered by Aaron 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋