• Ravideep Badyal

Abstract Research means a careful investigation and careful enquiry with an Endeavour to find relevant facts, which will be useful in the future. The purpose behind conducting research is to find solutions to a fundamental problem. If we have a quality research outcome, then it might lead to further improvements in the society, directly or indirectly. The basic aim and purpose of conducting research is to inculcate original thinking and analysis, but extensive copying and plagiarism counters such purpose. Not only plagiarism act as detrimental for the field of scholarship but it has been found that menace of plagiarism is prevalent among university students and it is affecting them in numerous tangible and intangible ways. Plagiarism is also regarded unethical because when a researcher forwards somebody else’s work as his own original work, it might be regarded as a kind of fraud. It hurts the intellectual property right of the original owner, depicts disrespect of the researcher towards his peers and questions the integrity and honesty of the researcher. This paper is aimed at discussing the concept of plagiarism, its types, effects, reasons and how it affects the overall quality of a legal research. And in order to control plagiarism, it is very much essential to know the reasons behind it and then solving them in a systematic fashion. Besides plagiarism certain research ethics have been discussed because overall quality of a paper is directly or indirectly related to these ethics. Besides this, a researcher should strive for becoming an ethical researcher because then only he would be able to produce a good and quality standard research.

Plagiarism

"Plagiarism and Legal Research: Qualitative Tool in Research Ethics", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 4, page no.1113-1120, April-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1804223.pdf

"Plagiarism and Legal Research: Qualitative Tool in Research Ethics", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 4, page no. pp1113-1120, April-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1804223.pdf