Plagarism
PLAGIARISM
AND
EFFECTS ON EDUCATION
BY
GEGERE ONOME IMA
22039740
WEB AND CLOUD COMPUTING
INTRODUCTION
As an individual I have done several write up basically on project reports while doing my undergraduate programme and also at work. I pick up information from several sources and do a report with them as mine. It strike me when I sent a report to manager and she returned it back saying she wanted it in my own words.
I did not quite get what she meant till I came across the word plagiarism. The advent of copy and paste or reading and writing other peoples work has been a norm in the educational system so I felt it was irrelevant what she had just said and threw caution to the wind. Conning up of words to suit a write does not really express or portray the essence of professionalism and this hampers development.
This practice has eaten deep into our minds making us as students, workers, educators and professional writers lazy and timid in our thoughts that we barely have time to sit and compose something that has originality.
Now I am doing my MSc in a foreign country and I have been told a lot about the dangers of plagiarism and how it affects my grade. Plagiarism as defined by the Oxford English Dictionary (what year reference this)is “the practice of taking someone else’s work or ideas and passing them off as one’s own”. This act has been found most common by International students studying overseas because they find it difficult understanding English language. Wendy (2008) stated “ International Students most of whom speak, read or write English as a second, third or foreign language (ESL/EFL) are the highest proportion of students appearing before the university disciplinary board”. She stated this when she was brought into the university of Melbourne Australia Disciplinary committee to check on cheating amongst students and how to curb it.
This paper with be covering key factors associated with plagiarism in higher education and also
AND
EFFECTS ON EDUCATION
BY
GEGERE ONOME IMA
22039740
WEB AND CLOUD COMPUTING
INTRODUCTION
As an individual I have done several write up basically on project reports while doing my undergraduate programme and also at work. I pick up information from several sources and do a report with them as mine. It strike me when I sent a report to manager and she returned it back saying she wanted it in my own words.
I did not quite get what she meant till I came across the word plagiarism. The advent of copy and paste or reading and writing other peoples work has been a norm in the educational system so I felt it was irrelevant what she had just said and threw caution to the wind. Conning up of words to suit a write does not really express or portray the essence of professionalism and this hampers development.
This practice has eaten deep into our minds making us as students, workers, educators and professional writers lazy and timid in our thoughts that we barely have time to sit and compose something that has originality.
Now I am doing my MSc in a foreign country and I have been told a lot about the dangers of plagiarism and how it affects my grade. Plagiarism as defined by the Oxford English Dictionary (what year reference this)is “the practice of taking someone else’s work or ideas and passing them off as one’s own”. This act has been found most common by International students studying overseas because they find it difficult understanding English language. Wendy (2008) stated “ International Students most of whom speak, read or write English as a second, third or foreign language (ESL/EFL) are the highest proportion of students appearing before the university disciplinary board”. She stated this when she was brought into the university of Melbourne Australia Disciplinary committee to check on cheating amongst students and how to curb it.
This paper with be covering key factors associated with plagiarism in higher education and also