Interview Questions

1. How do you define plagiarism?

2. What is your university's plagiarism policy?

a. How did you learn about it?

3. What did you learn about plagiarism in high school?

a. What do you know about the topic that you learned elsewhere?

4. What are the steps you take when you set out to write a research paper?

a. When you find a source you want to use in a research paper, what do you do next?

b. How do you manage/organize your sources?

5. Describe the circumstances in which you have copied and pasted from electronic text.

a. Does this constitute plagiarism?

6. Have you ever deliberately plagiarized a paper?

a. Describe the circumstances.

7. Have you ever deliberately plagiarized part of a paper?

Have you ever inadvertently plagiarized a paper?

a. Describe the circumstances.

8. Have you ever been accused of plagiarism?

a. Under what circumstances?

9. In your opinion, what are the pitfalls of plagiarism?

a. Describe the muddy, confusing, or difficult-to-understand parts.

10. Have you heard stories about other students who have plagiarized?

a. What were the circumstances?

11. Why is plagiarism wrong?

12. Tell me about some incidences of plagiarism you have heard about in "the real world."

13. What do you do when your sources are very difficult to read?

14. Why do professors care about plagiarism?

15. What advice would you give faculty to help students prevent plagiarism?

Answers

1. Plagiarism is an illegal form of copying. It means taking another person's work (without
asking) and calling it your own. Plagiarism can be accidental or intentional. Copying an
entire essay or story and calling it your own is plagiarism. Copying one sentence word-for-
word without "quotations" is also plagiarism. Whether you hand it in to a teacher, or post it
in your blog, plagiarism is against the law in most nations.
2. It is stated in a ”Kaidah Penulisan Jurnal Manuskrip Unnes” that Plagiarism is forbidden
and the punishment for doing that is serious.
3. In high school back then, the teacher only told us not to copy anything from any sources
without any legal permission. There is no specific lesson or lecture about Plagiarism.
4. The best way to write a great research paper is to choose a topic in which you’re genuinely
interested, after that, making Outlines are a great way to stay organized. While developing
research paper, try not to forget that the more tech-savvy one become, the more experienced
the professors get, too. They’ve seen it all by now, so don’t try to outsmart them by taking
short-cuts and not doing honest, well-developed research. Choosing credible sources for
your research paper is the only way to succeed. With the variety of ever-changing writing
styles, it can be hard to get your Works Cited or bibliography page in order. It’s always
better to ask professor for guidance than to fall victim to unconscious plagiarism, which can
still get you into trouble if we’re not careful.
a) Find the source of the file, seeking who the author is, when was it published, the
publisher and et cetera until it shaped a full reference.
b) By making outline, as stated in the main paragraph above.
5. When the sources are not available in an exact form, for example we can’t find certain book
in a library, then we surf the internet to find the answer to our problem.
 a) Most Internet content, including images, is protected by copyright. You need
permission to use it. You also need to credit the author or creator. Text on the Internet
is no different than text in a book or newspaper. Anything that another person writes,
including email, is copyright protected. Internet plagiarism often involves copying
text or images from websites, blogs, forums and social media sites.

6. Alhamdulillah thanks to Allah I have never been accused for doing such thing.
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7. Alhamdulillah thanks to Allah I have never been accused for doing such thing.
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8. Alhamdulillah thanks to Allah I have never been accused for doing such thing.
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9. The one made me confused is that when we find the data which doesn’t have any resource
for example it doesn’t have any author, date of publication or even the publisher. Even it is
already regulated in APA standard of citing, but I still find it muddy when I counter the
same problem in the future.
10. I have ever heard someone doing that, but the punishment is not that severe, the person only
got social punishment for not so long time, and people start to forget about what happened in
a blink of an eye. But I have never known someone around me, or at least whom I know,
doing such plagiarism activity.
11. Here are more reasons NOT to plagiarize, according to
http://www.englishclub.com/writing/plagiarism.htm:

 It is unfair to the true author.

 You will not learn anything.
 You will get a bad reputation with teachers and other learners.
 You will lower your chances of getting into schools.
 Teachers don't want to be the police.
 You will lose important references for future jobs.
 You could get fined.
 You could lose your job.
12. It may not have relation with academic world, but I have ever witness it countless times that
in music industry, the phenomenon of plagiarism is considered as common. For example
like what happened between the artist in Indonesia, or even overseas musician which is
accused for plagiarize some components of the musical instruments from another artists.
13. I will find another resource which is clear, readable and understandable.
14. Because the punishments for plagiarism can be severe.
15. They are:
- Strengthen the punishment for plagiarizing
- Make the rules and regulation regarding plagiarism bold
- Encourage the lecturers to encourage the students and remind them the dangers
lurk in doing plagiarism