A Cross-Sectional Awareness Study on Plagiarism: Principles and Praxis

Due to lack of awareness about intellectual property rights among the students, the incidents of plagiarism seem to be on the rise in conducting and compiling research reports/documents in higher education and academic content writing. Taking this into cognizance, the present study underscores the level of awareness about different aspects of plagiarism among the research scholars of West Bengal. A cross- sectional survey study was conducted with 91 research scholars from different higher educational institutions in West Bengal. A self-constructed questionnaire was developed for collecting responses through Google forms.