GENERAL GUIDELINES FOR CONTRIBUTORS OF RESEARCH WORK TO RESEARCH PROFESSIONALS

Plagiarism In Academic World

1. In the academic world, plagiarism by students is a very serious offense that can result in punishments such as a failing grade on the particular assignment (typically at the high school level) or for the course (typically at the college or university level). For cases of repeated plagiarism, or for cases in which a student commits severe plagiarism (e.g., submitting a copied article as his or her own work), a student may be suspended or expelled. Many students feel pressured to complete papers well and quickly, and with the accessibility of new technology (The Internet) students can plagiarize by copying and pasting information from other sources. This is often easily detected by teachers, for several reasons. First, students' choice of sources are frequently unoriginal; instructors may receive the same passage copied from a popular source (such as Wikipedia) from several students. Second, it is often easy to tell whether a student used his or her own "voice." Third, students may choose sources which are inappropriate, off-topic, or contain incorrect information. Fourth, lecturers may insist that submitted work is first submitted to an online plagiarism detector.
2.  In many universities, academic degrees or awards may be revoked as a penalty for plagiarism. 3. There is little academic research into the frequency of plagiarism in high schools. Much of the research investigated plagiarism at the post-secondary level. Of the forms of cheating (including plagiarism, inventing data, and cheating during an exam), students admit to plagiarism more than any other. However, this figure decreases considerably when students are asked about the frequency of "serious" plagiarism (such as copying most of an assignment or purchasing a complete paper from a website). Recent use of plagiarism detection software gives a more accurate picture of this activity's prevalence.
3. For professors and researchers, plagiarism is punished by sanctions ranging from suspension to termination, along with the loss of credibility and integrity. Charges of plagiarism against students and professors are typically heard by internal disciplinary committees, which students and professors have agreed to be bound by. (End of wikipedia text)

Plagiarism as Seen By Research Professionals

4. Being responsible members of the society, it is expected from each and every author working with “Research Professionals” to honour intellectual property rights of all other researchers, authors and individuals around the world by not attributing their work to himself/herself. You may refer other researchers’ work for as many times as you may like but always refer to the source.
5. Even if you use your own words, if you obtained the information or ideas you are presenting from a source, you must document the source
6. If you use an author's specific word or words, you must place those words within quotation marks and you must credit the source.
7. An author's ideas may include not only points made and conclusions drawn, but, for instance, a specific method or theory, the arrangement of material, or a list of steps in a scientific process or characteristics of a medical condition. If a source provided any of these, you need to acknowledge the source

Writing Style

8. Following a particular writing style always helps to write standard documents making it less-difficult to both authors and readers. For authors it provides a framework to produce a structured document, and for readers it becomes convenient to help find information they are looking for in a document. The University of Wisconsin’s, The Writing Center, is also an excellent resource for technical and academic writing guidelines. See their Writer’s Handbook, at: http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/index.html
9. You can choose any of the following well known writing styles:
   
   a. APA (American Psychological Association)
   
   b. MLA (Modern Language Association)
   
   c. Chicago / Turabian Style
   
   d. Harvard Style
   
   e. CBE (Council of Biology Editors)
   
   f. CGOS (Columbia Guide Online Style)

Carry It Forward
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10. We, at Research Professionals, acknowledge the process of research as a dynamic process and consider that it can not be contained or restricted in one paper or thesis alone. A genuine research work deserves to be raised to its next level by the same or some other researcher.
11. It is quite possible that some organizations or individuals may like to carry forward your research to its next level, so that your work becomes more authenticated and recognized. Should such a situation arise, we would ask your permission to undertake such a project which is based on your work. “Research Professionals” shall not (in any case) provide your contact details to any individual(s) or organizations soliciting your work, without your prior, explicit permission.

Payments

12. Once your work is accepted by us, you have two payment options:
    
    a. Pay for your work once and for all and “Research Professionals” becomes the owner of that work for the              purpose of selling it to other researchers only. (with your name as the original author).
    
    b. Put your work on our web site for online sale so that every time your work is downloaded by any other                 researcher you get paid 40% of the profit that “Research Professionals” makes on that deal.
13.  As mentioned earlier, even if you take “Option 1” as your payment option you remain the original author of the work.
14.  If you take option 2 as your payment option, you can opt for payment on every sale or a monthly payment of all your documents and other research work.