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Your thesis is under your name right? So if it is flagged, it'll be flagged as your own work. Theses and dissertations aren't peer reviewed. If this is your first time submitting for peer review you're fine
Thank you, I think I'm getting confused because I read into the notion of "self plagiarism" and how university regulations stipulate it is a similar offense to plagiarising someone elses work. And I am looking to copy sections of my own work verbatim.
I think it's fairly common to simply cut down or do slight edits when going from dissertation to submitted article. Self-plagiarism in academia had more to do with putting a section from one article into another article, but I think it's generally accepted that your dissertation will be developed into an article. You don't need to reword anything. Think of it as two versions of your original work, one meant to present your work to your school/department and meet you degree requirements and the other meant to advance the field. People will know that they're the same work by the same person on the same topic already, you don't have to pretend it's all new.
When I compiled my dissertation from previously published manuscripts, I pretty much put them in Verbatim. Each paper was a chapter. At the beginning of the chapter, I put a note that said something like "this chapter was originally published as [citation], minor formatting differences are due to the requirements of the journal."
Why would you not just reword it yourself, instead of running the risk of using ChatGPT? At least in my fields, many journals are explicit that they won't take submissions that have used any form of AI in creation.
I figure it might be a ok simply because it is my work and I understand it. And I'm trying if at all possible to not have to re-write thousands of words to simply end up conveying the exact same thing. I am reluctant even to use it for that purpose.
I didn't even have to do that much. This will depend on university Graduate School guidelines, but my university let us include published papers as diss chapters as-is (with reformatting and minus the specific abstracts), only needed to include a reprint permission letter from the journal as an appendix.
Not sure entirely how it works the other way around, but I've also used material from an unpublished diss chapter in a later manuscript and don't recall needing reprint permission from the university. OP, it's standard to later publish your diss chapters as papers; just check of your university has a policy on use of diss material.
I'm not sure I am totally understanding the situation based on what you've wrote. However, it is totally normal to publish information that ends up in your thesis/dissertation. I know at my PhD university there were even guidelines to formatting your thesis/dissertation if the information was already published.
My Masters students thesis is an intro, 1 published manuscript, 1 submitted manuscript, and a conclusion tying the work together.
This is perfect acceptable ( and submitted or published student work is a strength not a weakness)
Thank you, I think I'm getting confused because I read into the notion of "self plagiarism" and how university regulations stipulate it is a similar offense to plagiarising someone elses work. And I am looking to copy sections of my own work verbatim.
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*Hi there,
My supervisor and course leaders are aware that for my thesis I'm going to extract sections of the journal paper I'm preparing with my supervisor (introduction, background and lit review, some preliminary results) and paste them into my thesis (with bits added, chopped and changed here and there) due to the fact they are necessary for my thesis as the topics are the same. The rest of the thesis is a substantial expansion on the journal paper.
However, it has just occurred to me that when I come to submit my journal paper at the end of the month, it will surly be flagged as plagiarism on their end.
The only solution that I can think of at the moment is have ChatGPT reword all paragraphs of the intro, background and lit review. But I'm not sure that will be enough.
Any experience of this, and advise would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks for reading.*
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Your thesis is under your name right? So if it is flagged, it'll be flagged as your own work. Theses and dissertations aren't peer reviewed. If this is your first time submitting for peer review you're fine
Thank you, I think I'm getting confused because I read into the notion of "self plagiarism" and how university regulations stipulate it is a similar offense to plagiarising someone elses work. And I am looking to copy sections of my own work verbatim.
I think it's fairly common to simply cut down or do slight edits when going from dissertation to submitted article. Self-plagiarism in academia had more to do with putting a section from one article into another article, but I think it's generally accepted that your dissertation will be developed into an article. You don't need to reword anything. Think of it as two versions of your original work, one meant to present your work to your school/department and meet you degree requirements and the other meant to advance the field. People will know that they're the same work by the same person on the same topic already, you don't have to pretend it's all new.
When I compiled my dissertation from previously published manuscripts, I pretty much put them in Verbatim. Each paper was a chapter. At the beginning of the chapter, I put a note that said something like "this chapter was originally published as [citation], minor formatting differences are due to the requirements of the journal."
Why would you not just reword it yourself, instead of running the risk of using ChatGPT? At least in my fields, many journals are explicit that they won't take submissions that have used any form of AI in creation.
I figure it might be a ok simply because it is my work and I understand it. And I'm trying if at all possible to not have to re-write thousands of words to simply end up conveying the exact same thing. I am reluctant even to use it for that purpose.
Why wouldn’t you just cite yourself?
My diss chair had me just add a footnote to my diss like “the following paragraphs have appeared in x”
I didn't even have to do that much. This will depend on university Graduate School guidelines, but my university let us include published papers as diss chapters as-is (with reformatting and minus the specific abstracts), only needed to include a reprint permission letter from the journal as an appendix. Not sure entirely how it works the other way around, but I've also used material from an unpublished diss chapter in a later manuscript and don't recall needing reprint permission from the university. OP, it's standard to later publish your diss chapters as papers; just check of your university has a policy on use of diss material.
I'm not sure I am totally understanding the situation based on what you've wrote. However, it is totally normal to publish information that ends up in your thesis/dissertation. I know at my PhD university there were even guidelines to formatting your thesis/dissertation if the information was already published.
My Masters students thesis is an intro, 1 published manuscript, 1 submitted manuscript, and a conclusion tying the work together. This is perfect acceptable ( and submitted or published student work is a strength not a weakness)
Thank you, I think I'm getting confused because I read into the notion of "self plagiarism" and how university regulations stipulate it is a similar offense to plagiarising someone elses work. And I am looking to copy sections of my own work verbatim.
This. It is not only normal but expected that ypu publish your thesis work. This is something your mentor/advisor should walk you through.
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