Plagiarism is a common known term in the academic world, avoiding being caught of plagiarism is already a common among scholars and students who are working on a piece of assessment or article. To commit plagiarism is easy which usually just apply copy and paste function on the computer against a certain source of publishing and paste it towards another article that under progress, as well hand-copy from text books or other sources of publishing. (Eastment D 2005)
Students from colleges and universities worldwide are assuming to be the largest participant of committing plagiarism, simply because it’s a culture among them (Nexis UK 2011). But in reality, plagiarism is much more complicated. At its core, plagiarism involves using other people's thoughts, words or ideas without acknowledgement.
Programs that designed to deliver lesson of intellectual property towards the teenagers are increasing rapidly as we speak(Nexis UK 2011). Yet it just the matter of citing the sources correctly in articles.
It’s best to consider avoiding plagiarism by practising to cite sources right in a work. A book called “Cite Them Right” which published by Richard The website Plagiarism Advice (http://www.plagiarismadvice.org/) has lots of useful information on tackling plagiarism, and includes free downloadable guides from Ofqual for teachers, students and parents. The Plagiarism Resource Site also offers software for detecting copies. Called ‘WCopyFind’, it is intended to search locally-stored electronic documents, but it does have some ability to search on the Web. (Eastment D 2005)
Eventually it begs the question, is plagiarism out of control, well for a fact that I think it is. “Google with the copy and paste function equal plagiarism” quoted from George Cole (2010), which have open the path for obtaining information, but teenagers currently in the globe are pampered and spoil to take things for granted. Taking issue and task lightly and seek the easy way out has become a culture among the teenager, for its not surprise to assume that teenage students in achieving higher education prefer the easy method as well.
References:
Cole G.,2010. Times Education Supplement, Eastment. D 2005, ELT Journal Volume 59/2 April 2005. Oxford University Press, viewed 9 June 2011,
Tennant P and Rowell G 2010, Benchmark Plagiarism Tariff, A benchmark tariff for the application of penalties for student plagiarism in higher education, Plagiarism advice, viewed 9 June 2011, http://plagarismadvice
Nexis UK, 2011, Nexis the Global Business Information Research Database, Nexis Business Intelligent, viewed 10 June 2011, http://lexisnexis.org.uk/nexis
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