The ways PhD students cheat on their thesis. Avoid doing this...

In this video share with you all of the ways that PhD students can cheat on their thesis and how you can avoid the grey zones during your thesis write-up.

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▼ ▽ TIMESTAMPS
0:00 – introduction and warnings
2:28 – plagiarising from nonpublished work
4:41 – fabricating results
7:29 – including experiments and ideas from others
9:00 – getting people to write parts or all of the thesis

[francishunt]

One of my lecturers actually did his masters thesis on how students fabricate and 'improve' results during laboratory sessions. He called this the 'fiddle factor', and said this tendency was very common and happened at all levels. Wish I had a copy of it now, it was a real 'eye opener'.

[digitydog]

Interesting video. I have met non-native speakers of English who cannot provide a basic overview of their PhD topic, methodology, and findings. One criterion for success (in the Australian system at least) is mastery of academic English - demonstrated by producing an intelligible, cohesive, well-written thesis document that is produced by the candidate. There are actually rules in place that define the constraints within which a proofreader can edit a candidate's thesis. In no way is it permissible for a third person to write on behalf of the candidate. This is often referred to as "Ghostwriting" and is considered a serious form of plagiarism by most reputable universities. Ghostwriting would be a great topic for another video Andy!

[servicekid]

You’ve spent three years of your life working on this project. Be proud of it and write it up properly. Taking shortcuts will mean you will look back and wish you’d put more effort in

[rayb]

Please do a video showing how to organise your articles and references PLEAAAASE

[marilynnaeem]

I am a fourth year PhD student and with another year left to finish my degree, I am coming across the information through your videos, Andy, that I should have known before joining PhD! I am a first gen PhD student and new to American education-culture/academia as a whole, and your videos are an eye opener! Honestly, I was thinking to re-use the excerpts from a Master's thesis of the previous student whose work I continued, but just realized that without proper citation that would be cheating. I thought of it, not because I am a dishonest scholar, but because I simply did not know what comes in the gray area of academic cheating. So THANKYOU for this video and the others, that are simply causing the awareness much needed and especially, saving me the consequences of naive academic moves!

[JanWnogu]

That's a good video! Of course these things happen, but should be avoided as much possible.

[anthonygikuri]

Thank you Andy for highlighting keys issues here.

[asmayasmeen]

Great lecture as usual. I have learnt so much useful information from your insightful videos. Even I'm trying to get command on Lateral for my Literature review, that you've shared in one of your video posts. Thanks again for your great work.

[andrewhabroad]

The Masters one is kind of ridiculous if it's your own thesis. If I am continuing my own research from my masters, then I should be able to copy my own work.

[takahapana]

My PhD thesis was published as a monogram for public consumption so there was no remote chance for cheating.

[janswanton]

Thanks, Andy. Really sound and useful advice, as usual.
In my area, guarding against cheating is crucial.
My primary sources cheat by saying things to the Press they know aren't true ('Charles Manson auditioned for The Monkees' is a good example) and I have to spot what is happening and why.
My secondary sources cheat by reproducing the same data, so it looks reliable, because so many scholars attest to it, but they are only copying from one another ('Reine Stewart - Peter Tork's wife - is James Stewart's daughter', is a typical example. She isn't!) Again, it is crucial that I spot this and sort out what is really going on.
It's good to be reminded to be on my guard!
Thanks again!

[lazyscholar]

This is why you try to publish the work you take to conferences ahead of time.

Many people give away their ideas before they are able to capitalize on it.

[realGBx]

Write your paper in your own language, translate it using google translate to English and then send it out to a lecturer.
I am not joking, I had colleagues writing papers like this, and I ended up writing their response letters when they got major revisions.

[stevengraham]

I really appreciate your videos Andy. I am working my way through my corrections, post viva. Do you have any thoughts for that stage of the game?

[JustThesis]

I am aware of an Associate Professor who has taken someone else's decades old PhD Thesis and published a paper under her name.

The PhD thesis completed in the last millenium is not available online.

In the current millenium, the best way to prevent anyone plagiarising your work is to upload them online. ResearchGate is a good place to do this. I did this when I found out that my research proposal was plagiarised word for word.

[luminousblue]

Amazing content as always. thank you Andy!

[Sugarsnaps]

I have a question. Is using/citing different sites that give you free access to, otherwise, expensive papers, considered cheating/illigal in the PhD writing process?

[iaan]

A PhD thesis should optimally consist of an introduction + collection of peer reviewed papers first authored by the PhD student.

[sajidakadar]

You didn't mention what happens if someone paste paragraphs taken from their own published papers.

[MsSADAFRANI]

Is it also a cheating if someone took sentence from a paper and wrote in own words but the vocabulary was not very nice so used online tool to repharase it?