WHY STUDENT PLAGIARISE ??

WHST IS PLAGIARISM?

• Rewriting from books or articles without citation
• Copying and pasting from web pages and online sources
• Buying downloading or borrowing a paper
• Copying your mates assignments or work

Why does this happens among students ? From my opinion most of students do not understand the importance of citation.Students will think that by just looking or searching for ideas is our own idea but in reality you are actually copying.That is why we need citation from our sources to prevent plagirism.Some f the students may not even know how to cite their sources because of copying from the internet is a normal thing to do but really now everyone needs to know the use of citation starting from their school days.

Next student may lack of research skills.This happens when they depend on the internet and web pages too much.Nowadays i agree we can search almost anything in the internet but not all we can directly copy and paste it.We need to do a little research and reading.When we read for instance an article from the internet and the article are close to your assignment do you copy it or you read and do some scanning?So be smart when taking something in the internet or go to the library.

Furthermore, i can say some of the students are lack of confident and mostly have no idea what their assignments are meant.So this type of students would just search it and copy it without thinking.Why i call it lack of confident because there are so many ways to understand a thing you can ask your lecterurs or further understanding but no they choose to copy.

Last but not least students are lazy.I admit this is the biggest problem for most student.First they dont understand their assignments given leads to copying and laziness.Some of them may want to escape from so much work and using the easiest way out which is copying.Other than that, students may panic because they are lack of time.Obviously when the due date is  around the corner.

The conclusion is plagirism can be prevented but students itself must know what they are doing.Some of the reasons above are around us and we tend to do it without realising it.We may think its okay when lecterurs cant detect but plagiarism can leads to serious law actions if caught.