Weekly Sharing - Plagiarism
Is
it our crime when we do not fully understand about the effect of the activity which we have done? then, is it
our fault. When we have been taught only
to read and answer the question based on text
without analyzing and understanding the text. Even more, you get a big
bad mark from your lecturer if you do copy paste something without referencing
it. If you are in that position, you are in the same level with me. Our education system teaches us about
the plagiarism in the small portion when we were in high school. Even worst, our university
system obligates us to avoid it when we do our final project and thesis
project, but how? Only few course which
is taught by visionaire lecturer conduct a project which introduce and motivate
student to avoid plagiarism. Moreover, Sarlauskiene & Stabingis, (2014) suggest that the institution level or language community
should have a definition, and fixed format about a kind of plagiarism and the
institutional level should have consequence about a student who do plagiarism.
Therefore, this paper should be read by
those who just enter the university and old semester studet in order to know
about plagiarism and how to avoid it.
Devlin (2006) states that plagiarism
is an activity that presents somebody works and claim it as their own works.
She categorize plagiarism as a crime. Moreover, she suggests that plagiarism
should be tackle by university policy maker.
Sarlauskiene & Stabingis, (2014) reports that
plagiarism activity in Pennsylvania Public University can be like presenting the
works which is not done by you, you are quoting and paraphrasing data and
ideas without referencing the source and the original writer and you are pare resenting,
paraphrasing and quoting ideas or work with minimal changes.
In advance, Victoria University of
wellington defines plagiarism as the activity which present somebody ideas as
your idea without referencing the sources. Those activity can be:
- Copying a source from journal, book jour
and etc without an acknowledgement.
- Copying the organization and structure of
material
Victoria
university also give brief stetement that make minor changes to wording or
changing the order of sentences still commits as plagiarism. It means if you
change the synonym and the order of sentences (passive- active) only, you still
commits as plagiarism.
knowing the plagiarism, then, how to avoid it
? To avoid it, you need to paraphrase and quote it in the right way. When you
paraphrase a theory from journal or book, you need to use your own words. It is
not enough if you change the synonnim and changes the order of sentences.Then,
you need to understand the source which you read deeply.
To sum up, plagiarism is an activity
which present sombody works as your works. Plagiarism is also categorized crime. Therefore, University student should
avoid it because it violence the copyright law and it invites students to be
lazy and reduce their critiical thinking
on analysing the source which they red
Bibliography:
Devlin, M. (2006). Policy , Preparation , and Prevention :
Proactive minimization of student plagiarism Policy , Preparation , and
Prevention : Proactive minimization of student plagiarism. Journal of Higher
Education Policy and Management, 28(April 2015), 37–41.
https://doi.org/10.1080/13600800500283791
Sarlauskiene, L., & Stabingis, L. (2014). Understanding
of plagiarism by the students in HEIs of Lithuania. Procedia - Social and
Behavioral Sciences, 110, 638–646. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2013.12.908
Article post by M Nurul Mahardika
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