OCTOBER 29, 2017
01
INTERNET
PLAGIARISM
4 common ways to prevent Internet plagiarism among students
IN THIS ISSUE
EXPLANATION: What is
Internet plagiarism?
EDUCATION: Consequences
of cheating.
CITATION: Learn on how to
cite properly.
PERMISSION: Ask
author agreement.
VOL.
PLAGIARISM
BY NURUL NADIA
WHAT IS PLAGIARISM?
According to Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary,
plagiarism is 'the act of using another person's words
or ideas without giving credit to that person' or 'the
act of plagiarizing something'. While in academic
term, plagiarism is always referred to the
demonstration or submission of the product of
others, without giving them citation or credits, and
put it as your own work (University of Northern
British Columbia, 1997, p. 1 as cited in Suarez &
Martin, 2001).
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Other than that, students may intentionally or " Copy from

unintentionally doing plagiarism. Hinchliffe (1998 as
cited in Suarez & Martin, 2001) stated some typical
one it's
types of plagiarism consist of: plagiarism;
1. Another student's paper was submitted with or
without the student's knowledge.
copy from
2. No proper documentation is made after copying a many it's
paper or paraphrasing information from a text. research "
3. Obtaining and lending in a paper from a companion,
research service, or term paper mill.
4. Transferring and sending a paper from a free term - Wilson Mizner
paper Web site (Hinchliffe, 1998 as cited in Suarez &
Martin, 2001). (1876-1933

EXPLANATION : WHAT IS
INTERNET PLAGIARISM ?
BY NURUL NADIA

According to Kerr (2012), Internet plagiarism is

generally referred to as content scraping, which is
simply copying and pasting content (text and/or
images) from a source without proper citation.
Students tend to just copy and paste everything from
Internet because it is favourable compared to books,
magazines or journals.
Using Internet is the fastest and simplest way to finish
their works in a short period of time without having
the needs to go to library and find the material
manually through the shelves. It might be quite
difficult for us to detect the plagiarism because of the
accessible on Internet information throughout the net.
However, there are ways that can be used to detect the
plagiarism detection tools. Other than that, we can
easily notice if the writing styles of someone who we
know their level change so sudden. Thus, it is possible
for them to be caught on plagiarizing something
without giving credits.

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Agustina & Raharjo (2017) stated that the results of

their research showed that the students were aware of "never lie, never
plagiarism, but they did not realized that they have
done a plagiarism. The research was an ongoing
cheat, never
research on 42 students with two different major steal"
studies: 32 English Education students and 10 -John Wooden
Psychology students. The students were in their eighth
semester and in the process of completing their
bachelor thesis. This research was done by giving them
a set of question. The results are shown below.

1.Before completing the bachelor thesis writing.

3-For question 3, less than 20

students state that they plagiarized
when completing their assignment
while 25 admit that they never
plagiarized.

4- For question 4, there are slightly

Figure 1. Students judgment on plagiarism and different in the students responses
plagiarist in their academic life before they start which is more than 25 students claim
writing their Bachelor thesis. The number of students that they only plagiarize when it
is shown by the vertical line while the horizontal line comes to important notes to score in
presents the questions with three choices. Each choices final.
is distinguished by different colour (Blue for Option A,
Red for Option B, and Green for Option C) stated by 5- For question 5, only + 12 students
Agustina & Raharjo (2017) . said that they plagiarized when their
current academic results on certain
A brief analysis observed by Agustina & Raharjo subjects are low.
(2017).
6- For question 6, about + 21 students
1-For question 1, it shows that 25 students choose to claim that lecturers never know
look for sources in the internet rather than books when they plagiarize while others
while 11 students choose to read books and 6 students said they rarely get caught when
prefer journal articles. plagiarizing ones work and only a few
of them admit that they plagiarize.
2-For question 2, more than 35 students say that they
know the meaning of plagiarism while only 5 from 42
students say that they know nothing about it.

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7- For question 7, most of the students response that

they will plagiarize if it can make them pass in their
subjects.
"ORIGINALITY
IS
8- For question 8, the students admit to submit the
sources which is similar or just send it and tell the
UNDETECTED
lecturer that it is not the original sources. PLAGIARISM"
Last but not least, Agustina & Raharjo (2017) also
stated that in another questionnaire that most of the -WILLIAM
students admit to plagiarize just by downloading
apparently all the sources from Internet. RALPH INGE

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EDUCATION:
:

" I WOULD
THE CONSEQUENCES OF PREFER
EVEN TO
CHEATING
FAIL WITH
BY NURUL NADIA
HONOR
Clearly copying something from any person, party or THAN WIN
organization without their approval is considered as
cheating. Every publication has their own copyright
BY
and protected by its law. So does the information CHEATING"
contained in the Internet. The students need to be
aware about the consequences that might trouble them
in future if they keep plagiarizing improperly. Kalani -SOPHOCLES
& Twinwal (2001) stated that since plagiarism may
head them to the very worst effects of their life as
students, few consequences of it include:

1. The student might to redo the project with a

deducted marks.
2. The student may be given a fail grade onward.
3. One further opportunity may be given if found
guilty to resubmit the project within a specified
time.
4. Academic trial and actions may be taken according
to the level of plagiarism and the committee members.
5. Being expelled may seem strict because of the rules,
however it can also be the reason if the student has
been found guilty for many times with plagiarizing.

These actions will completely crush the student and

their academic image and haunt them forever even
when they go for a higher level of education such as
PhD, Masters, job or any other profession. One day, if
they have become a professional in their respective
career, their reputation will be damaged and they
might lose their job.
Therefore, plagiarism should not be taken carelessly.

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CITATION: "Research is
LEARN ON HOW TO CITE what I'm
PROPERLY. doing when I
BY NURUL NADIA
don't know
what I'm
Citation in the easiest meaning for students to
understand is mentioning someone whom we are
doing"
referring our works from. A citation is needed either it
is in the form of in-text or end-text. However, according
to Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary for English
-Wernher Von
Learner, citation is a line or short section taken from Braun
a piece of writing or a speech.

There are few common styles of citation stated by

University of Pittsburgh (2017) : APA (American
Psychological Association) which is used by Education,
Psychology, and Sciences, MLA (Modern Language
Association) used by the Humanities.
Chicago/Turabian style is typically used by Business,
History, and the Fine Arts and IEEE style which used in
Engineering . As students, they mostly use APA style
when citing, however sometimes it depends on their
lecturers or institutions (Brink, 2016).

For an APA styles citation, firstly it must consists of

the author's last name and the work's date of
publication, for example: (James, 2017). Secondly, it
can be a direct quotation which include the page
number in it, for example: (James, 2017, p.30) stated
by Penn State University Libraries (2017).

Example of In-text citation in a paragraph:

A few researchers in the linguistics field have
developed training programs designed to improve
native speakers' ability to understand accented speech
(Derwing, Rossiter, & Munro, 2002; Thomas, 2004).

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Their training techniques are based on the

research described above indicating that
comprehension improves with exposure to non- "Certainly the
plagiarism, and
native speech. Derwing et al. (2002) conducted
their training with students preparing to be social
workers, but note that other professionals who
dealing with the
fallout of it,was
work with non-native speakers could benefit from
a similar program.

Example of end-text or references:

the most difficult
Derwing, T. M., Rossiter, M. J., & Munro, M. J. thing I have ever
(2002). Teaching native speakers to listen to
foreign-accented speech. Journal of Multilingual
faced since I
and Multicultural Development, 23(4), 245-259. started writing"
Thomas, H. K. (2004). Training strategies for -Nora Roberts
improving listeners' comprehension of foreign-
accented speech (Doctoral dissertation).
University of Colorado, Boulder.
Other than that, when doing an in -text
citation, the sentences from the author
must be edited first before write it out. The
sentences need to be paraphrase as long as
the meaning is still the same and put the
quotation when needed only. The sources
also need to be arranged in alphabetical
order in the references part.

Below are the links for you to learn more

about APA citation format.

http://www.apastyle.org/index.aspx

https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=6nwHEChU44o

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PERMISSION:
ASK THE
AUTHOR
AGREEMENT
By Nurul Nadia

Another last way for

students not to commit
plagiarism is by asking
the particular author
permission to use their
artwork. This is easily can
be done just by contacting
them, setting up an
appointment or emailing
them through email. By
using this way, students
can prevent plagiarism
because they ask for the
author agreement first to
use or publish their ideas
to the public.

In conclusion, we should
not take others work or
ideas for granted because
they work very hard on it.
From now on, let us start
doing the right thing. NO
PLAGIARISM anymore!!

" TAKING SOMETHING FROM ONE

MAN AND MAKING IT WORSE IS
PLAGIARISM"
-GEORGE A MOORE

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Brink, J. (2016, September 23). Citation Styles: APA, MLA, Chicago, Turabian, IEEE:
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Kalani, V. & Twinwal, A. ( 2013,December 11). Plagiarism and its Consequences

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Kerr, S. (2012, July 29). Plagiarism: Illegal, Unethical...and Devastating to Your

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Penn State University Libraries System. (2017, October 12) APA Quick Citation Guide
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