Tuesday, 26 July 2016

thesis - Is a copied acknowledgements section considered plagiarism?


A friend of mine has told me that his Master student (Chemistry) defended his thesis sometimes ago and everything went alright and he graduated. He recently realized that in the acknowledgements part the student has copied practically (word by word, line by line) the acknowledgements of another thesis available on the Internet by replacing the name of my colleague with the name of the supervisor of that thesis. He added that he was hurt by the fact that the student has not tried to say his 'thank you' words by his own words.


My first question is that can this be considered as a plagiarism?


My second question is that is it necessary to inform the student about this possible (if any) misconduct?




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