LAW5604 Clinical Law-I: Alternative Dispute Resolution — Unit 2: Citation Rule and Avoiding Plagiarism

Unit 2: Citation Rule and Avoiding Plagiarism

2.1 Different Citation Styles and the Significance of a Uniform Rule of Citation

The styles’ family: the Bluebook (the US law’s standard); the OSCOLA (the UK’s); the APA-Chicago (the social sciences); the Nepali practice (the NKP’s own forms — the law faculty’s convention). The uniformity’s significance: the verification’s trail (the reader’s route to the source); the authority’s display (the SC’s judgment properly identified); the discipline’s membership (the profession’s shared forms); the examiner’s efficiency (the consistency’s courtesy). The clinical course’s rule: one style, consistently applied — the convener’s guide controls.

2.2 Avoiding Unethical Practices in Academia and Plagiarism

The unethical practices’ catalogue: the plagiarism (the others’ words-and-ideas as one’s own — the theft’s forms: the copy, the close paraphrase, the patchwork, the self-plagiarism); the fabrication (the invented sources-and-data); the falsification (the altered results); the unauthorized collaboration; the AI-assisted drafting’s undisclosed use (the newest face — the institution’s policies). The avoidance’s discipline: the notes’ hygiene (the source’s words marked from the first); the citation’s habit (the idea credited wherever found); the paraphrase’s honesty (the real re-writing, not the synonym-swapping); the draft’s check (the originality tools-and-the own reading). (The fuller treatment: Seminar-I (LAW5506, S6) Unit 5 — the shared foundation.)

2.3 Learning Citation Styles for the Source Types

1. The Constitution: the article-and-clause (the Nepali form: “the Constitution of Nepal, Art. 30(3)”).
2. The Statute: the short-title-and-year (the “Environment Protection Act, 2076 (2019)”); the section on first use.
3. The Judgments: the Nepali form — the party names, the court, the year, the citation: Padam Bahadur Shrestha v. Office of the Prime Minister, NKP 2076, D.No. 10210 (the NKP’s discipline: the volume-number-D.No.-page).
4. The International Treaties: the name, the year, the article (the “Paris Agreement 2015, Art. 2”).
5. The Official Reports: the institution, the title, the year (the NHRC’s reports; the commissions’ papers).

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