Plagiarism has become an issue of growing concern across universities in Malaysia and internationally.

The plagiarism issue in a university context, however, remains crucially different from plagiarism as a general phenomenon. Plagiarism is getting very common with the expansion of Internet and easy access of knowledge. One of the primary reasons for the rapid growth in plagiarism as an issue is that students have increasingly ready access to downloadable information from the Internet. At the same time, students' time in class and on campus has tended to decline and they are constantly searching for efficient ways to complete assignments and assessment tasks. Most students do treat plagiarism seriously. Plagiarism is the presentation of the idea and the wording of someone else with your own name, which is not legal both ethically and professionally. The issues of plagiarism have been mostly seen in the educational sector because of many reasons. Plagiarism means the use of other peoples words or ideas with out giving proper credit where it is only one part of the general problem of cheating. Most cheating is undetected. Instead of coming up with their own and innovative ideas people prefer to copy the ideas of the others, because it is the most simple and easy way to cheat and imitate the ideas. For every student caught plagiarizing, it is almost certain that many more plagiarizers escape detection. The root cause of the problem is not that students were cheating, that's just a symptom. The plagiarism is enhanced because of the laziness, and the carelessness of the students. Plagiarism in higher education can take many forms. For examples, downloading information, text, computer code, artwork, graphics or other material from the Internet and presenting it as one's own without acknowledgment. More and more students in the higher education levels are resorting to plagiarism to complete assignments, tasks and research papers. In fact, many websites are established to accommodate this need. The act, whether intentionally or unintentionally, may result in the severe punishment of being expelled from an institution. In many subjects, plagiarism can be minimized by appropriate design of essay questions, or student assessment generally. For example, essay questions can be posed which require the student to refer to recent newspaper or magazine articles, draw

on personal experiences, or make connections between theory and example not found in the literature. This prompts students to do their own work without any specific concern about plagiarism. More importantly, the policing approach to plagiarism is educationally counterproductive. Students should be encouraged to model themselves on the best thinkers and, at the same time, to think critically and originally. There are many educational institutions, which are promoting the concept of punishment against the students who are accused of plagiarism, but the ways of plagiarism are so diverse that to control it becomes very difficult. Most of the students just make the different wording and get far better marks than the other who even came up with their own genuine work. Consequently, such students also develop such habits and the rate of plagiarism increases. There are many students who just want to avoid the chances of failure because they can get the bad grades based on their sole ideas.