Awareness on Plagiarism among Research Scholars of Selected University of Assam: An Investigative Study

Plagiarism is an act of using another person’s words or ideas without proper citation and is often considered as cheating, dishonesty, copying. Currently, it is one of the hottest topics in higher education all over the world.The study aimed to examine Awareness on Plagiarism among Research Scholars of Selected University of Assam. Structured questionnaire was designed to collect the data. A total number of 112 research scholars participated in this survey. The findings of the study reveal that most of research scholars (48.28%) are belongs to Social Science department, highest percentage of the research scholars (64.28%) are female, most of research scholars (93.75%) are aware about plagiarism, most of the (56.25%) research scholars mentioned Workshop/Seminar/Conference as the key source to get knowledge about plagiarism, most of the research scholars (79.46%) are aware about anti plagiarism software, most of the research scholars (52.68%) are not aware about consequence of plagiarism, a highest percentage of the research scholars (47.32%) are not known about the nature of anti –plagiarism policy of UGC, Most of the research scholars (59.82%) are avoid guidance to checking plagiarism, most of the research scholars (38.39%) are used Quotes, Footnotes to avoid plagiarism.