Plagiarism

Plagiarism

Outline

Introduction

Why Students Plagiarize

Change in Student Values

Detection of Plagiarism

Combating Plagiarism

Conclusion

Introduction

Plagiarism is a serious problem in modern universities . This fact signifies decline in student moral values and indicates that people are often tempted to go an easy way instead of working to obtain the results . Plagiarism also indicates the goals students set themselves in the process of the studies and reflect a change in student values over time . Professors have developed a number of techniques in aimed at

preventing plagiarism and continue to polish them in to withstand this harmful phenomenon

What is Plagiarism

Quite often plagiarism is quite simply defined as passing off someone else 's work as your own (Evans 2000 . Work ' is used here in a broad meaning , stating that work that will be plagiarized may include graphical presentations , photographs , and other things . This is a very straightforward definition , yet some indicate that things are not as simply as they may seem since there exist such intricate notions as auto-plagiarism and self-plagiarism , substantial plagiarism and incidental plagiarism , and finally there is unconscious plagiarism or cryptomnesia , which seemingly would allow an excuse to all but the most obvious plagiarists (Evans 2000

Auto-plagiarism refers to instances when an author uses a portion of one 's own previous work in the current piece . When an author uses facts and figures that appeared in the previous work , there is the need to refer to that work because the copyright now belongs to the publisher not to the author . Self-plagiarism is more closely connected with the experience of a student who is trying to use the same work or portion of the previous work to submit to different professors for different courses . Cryptomnesia refers to cases when a person believes to have invented the idea him /herself , but in fact simply remembers something created by a different author

Westmont College in its Plagiarism Policy ' also distinguishes between minimum , substantial and complete plagiarism that differ in the amount of plagiarized material . For instance , minimum plagiarism means inserting verbatim phrases of 2-3 distinctive words , while complete plagiarism is about submitting or presenting someone 's complete published or unpublished work , article , or chapter (Westmont College

Why Students Plagiarize

Academics at DePauw University divide those who plagiarize into two categories . The first category embraces those who have difficulty writing correct , coherent essays (DePauw University . These students either did not have the right amount of tuition or lack knowledge of the language in which they are supposed to write their essays , so they resort to plagiarism as what they see as the only way to improve their grade . They may also suffer from a learning disability , which makes their efforts at learning to write well even more difficult

In the second category are the students who either fear getting a grade that is lower than the one they or their parents expect them to get , or have fallen behind in their course work and feel they do...