Why Do Students Plagiarise

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WHY DO STUDENTS PLAGIARIZE? According to Oxford dictionaries, plagiarism is defined as the practice of taking someone else’s work or ideas and passing them off as one’s own. It is a hot issue nowadays as people began to take advantage of others people work and claim it as their own which breaks the property law. It is unethical it considered as stealing other’s property. There are many big cases that had set an example of how serious the act of plagiarize is. One of them is about high-profile politicians German Education Minister Annette Schavan. She has written her doctoral thesis in 1980. After 30 years, she had been found out to plagiarize some part of her dissertations. Now, her doctorate is striped off and she resigns. The act of plagiarize is serious and yet it still commonly happened especially among students. Why did students plagiarize? Various reasons might be the reason for it. The most common excuses given are because it really is simple. With the world in tip of finger, anything is possible. Just Google, find the one, copy and paste-and done. In other words, students are lazy enough then. They doesn’t have to work hard and think complexly on completing the assignment, especially if they are not interested in that topic or they think it is not an important task to do. It can happened when the student does not know the objective of the task given and the relevancies of it to them, especially if the topic is too general. Besides that, the students also may lack of organization in terms of work. Sometimes the students focus on searching and gathering all the info but didn’t keep track of references or source that they have been taking the info from. At the end, they lost track of reference for citation and eventually plagiarizing. Besides that, the students may also be confused about how to cite the sources. Even now, there are many types of

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