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   From: rkoch@banmlkday.com   
      
   JANUARY 5 — Plagiarism happens for a number of reasons, one is   
   because some students decide consciously to gain credit for the   
   work of others. However, most incidents of plagiarism are the   
   product not of deliberate cheating, but of underdeveloped   
   academic skills.   
      
   The term plagiarism, derived from the Latin word “plagiarius”   
   meaning “kidnapper” or “plunderer.” It has has been defined as   
   the practice of using other’s ideas and texts and claiming them   
   as one’s own original authorship without acknowledging the   
   source.   
      
   Plagiarism may take various forms. The most serious form of   
   plagiarisms “to obtain and submit as your own paper written by   
   someone else.”   
      
   Other forms of plagiarism include doing the copy-and-paste of   
   texts without acknowledging the original authorship,   
   paraphrasing the original ideas of others without referencing   
   them or attributing the citation of a text to a false authorship.   
      
   Students plagiarise other’s works and present them as their own   
   because of the said cultural background of the students. Its   
   most obvious reasons are the language and content problems faced   
   by the students. In addition, these problems are compounded with   
   other problems like lack of motivation, desire for a better   
   product, aspiration for higher grades, etc.   
      
   Most plagiarised work goes undetected. The invention of modern   
   technology like internet has made plagiarism easier than ever   
   before.   
      
   Martin Luther King, Jr, leading figure of Black Rights Movement   
   in the USA, was also charged with plagiarism in his Ph D   
   dissertation, and still today there is a piece of information   
   tagged at this research informing its readers that his   
   dissertation consists of plagiarised work.   
      
   Identifying plagiarism in academic papers is a very difficult   
   task. Even technology-equipped software as the like of Copycatch   
   or Turnitin is not feasible in all contexts, particularly in   
   developing countries where the problems of accessibility of   
   computers and internet facilities that are coupled with a large   
   number of students.   
      
   Students must bear in mind that their teachers are the experts   
   in the field and know the sources more than their students do.   
   Punishing the students of their plagiarised work sometimes can   
   be counter-productive in the academic field.   
      
   Teachers must teach plagiarism to their students not from a   
   punitive approach, but rather by drawing their attention to good   
   writing, and referencing and citation skills. They must bear in   
   mind that there must lie a difference between an original work   
   and a plagiarised work that is rejected in the student’s   
   achievement.   
      
   http://www.themalaymailonline.com/what-you-think/article/issue-   
   of-plagiarism-in-academic-work-azizi-ahmad   
                        
      
      
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