Access to internet has increased the occurrence of unfair practice at British Universities.
Aim:
Aim of this essay is to make familiarity with Internet terminology. To explain how it is useful for students in their study, what is unfair practice of internet, how students do misuse of internet and how it is eliminated or decreased to a minimum level in education.
Introduction:
Internet is a network in which computers located at different places in world are connected in a network so a user can access the information from any other computer which is connected within the network. Some of the examples of internet usage are downloading free software; sending emails, getting news of different part of world, surfing to find out required information, downloading of music and movies, chatting with people etc. Internet is widely used in corporate sector and also in educational sector. In today‘s education system internet is like basic requirements of students. Students can expand their knowledge by reading materials on different subjects from internet. Students can get number of free downloadable books which can be useful for them in their study. Because of these reasons usage of internet is increased in education. But with its good features its misuse is also increased day by day. Students use internet as a shortcut for their study. Like students have to make assignments, dissertation, case-study etc. They use internet materials directly by doing minor changes in them so they can prevent themselves from the hard work required to complete these things. This is known as Plagiarism. Due to easy availability of internet access and wide range of available information on internet cases of plagiarism increase day by day at British Universities. Possible reasons of increasing plagiarism and how students do plagiarism and suggested effective steps to decrease plagiarism is discussed here.
Analysis:
Internet is easily available to students who pursuing
References: 6. Printed versus Internet Plagiarism: A study of student’s perception, Baruchson S., 2004 7