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Sometimes plagiarism occurs when a student fails to adopt because they do not know proper rules to referring to academic material, including appropriate ways for quoting and compiling reference lists. In cases like this there is no ultimate intent to deliberately deceive and the literary theft is accidental. Unintentional Plagiarism can be caused by hidden memory. Students may perceive it to be a new idea but in actual they unknowingly have clicked an idea saved at the back of their mind. For some students plagiarism “is no big deal”. Students do not see cheating as a major problem among their peers.
For example, a study by Limit & Sec (2001 ) based in Singapore which they describe as “one of the most competitive educational system in the world found that students are morally ambivalent about academic cheating and are rather tolerant of dishonesty among their peers. ” Most of the reports go undetected it does not give a consistent picture about the scale and nature of plagiarism the extent to which it is changing through time varies from country to country, from subject to subject between post graduates and graduates. We do not understand that plagiarism an act is unethical and its shows the mentality of person.
Plagiarism is caused due to last minute submission thus tutors should keep a check on a regular basis about the status of the assignments and help them if they have any sort of a problem. This exercise must be done for all the students who have problems in academic writing. If there is a requirement of using another authors work it must be done in quotation marks and the author must be referenced properly. References must be made of facts that cannot be presumed as common knowledge. Diagrams and tables borrowed must also be referenced properly. Opinions of authors’ cannot be presumed to be yours.
Thus it must be referenced properly. A common question asked is that why do students plagiarism : When they are unclear about the meaning of common knowledge and expressing in their own words. To get better grades and save time. Due to lack of time management, students cheat because they have peer pressure and a busy social life and other commitments for sports. Personal Values: Some students plagiarism to be good, because they considered short cut to be clever and a smart way. To some students plagiarism is a tangible way of showing dissent and expressing a lack of respect of authority.
Student’s attitude: Some students cheat because they have negative attitude towards assignments and tasks. Denial/Naturalization: Some students deny to themselves of cheating by passing the blame to others, Temptation & Opportunity: It is both easier and tempting to plagiarism as information is easily accessible on the internet. We should learn that sources support not substitute their own ideas. There is also uncertainty about “the point at which the ideas passes into general knowledge in a way that no longer requires attribution”. Most writers agree that matters of common knowledge do not require referencing in academic rating.