understanding and perceived seriousness of plagiarism? International Journal for Educational Integrity Amanda Maxwell University of Western Sydney mandamaxwell@optusnet.com.au Guy J. Curtis University of Western Sydney g.curtis@uws.edu.au Lucia Vardanega University of Western Sydney l.vardanega@uws.edu.au Keywords: culture‚ Asian‚ understanding‚ seriousness‚ plagiarism Abstract This paper discusses the perceived seriousness and understanding of plagiarism by local and Asian international students
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Plagiarism is one of my biggest pet peeves. I see people plagiarizing by copying other people’s work down at school. Throughout the years people have been in big trouble for plagiarizing on SAT’S and other important test that shows which college people are qualified to go. When I was 9 years old my best friend would always cheat off my paper during English class and I would always get in trouble for it. As I got older I learned how bad plagiarism could be and the consequences for it. Copying someone’s
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excerpt from “The Plagiarism Plague” by Raymond A. Schroth‚ the writer criticizes the behavior of cheating and plagiarism are caused by culture. The author shows how plagiarism is a moral rather than ethical problem. By using the example of a writer who collects works from others and put them together to publish a book of his own‚ the author claims the writer cheats “his own character” in return for money. In addition‚ the author explains how different culture has an impact on plagiarism. For example
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Plagiarism and Moral Development Moral Development is a theory defined by Lawrence Kohlberg in our text. “Kohlberg contends that people pass through a series of stages as their sense of justice evolves and in the kind of reasoning they use to make moral judgments.” (Feldman‚ pg. 320) These stages are sequenced into levels: “Level 1- Preconventional morality- at this level‚ the concrete interests of the individual are considered in terms of rewards and punishments. Level 2-Conventional morality-
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is that plagiarism is wrong. Although this is drilled into our heads year after year most don’t heed these warnings. Weirdly enough this lesson was learnt in math classes not the typical Wikipediang of history or English. In Mr. Smith’s class I learned this valuable lesson with the aid of some nefarious peers and the iron grip of my teacher. It all happened on a sweltering September day the twentieth to be exact. Inside the musty and dusty classroom of Mr.Smith’s classroom. My plagiarism problem
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CHARACTERISTICS OF A PARAGRAPH Unity in paragraph Unity in the paragraph means oneness of idea. A good paragraph possesses unity when all the sentences develop the main idea. Unity in the paragraph is achieved by the use of (1) a topic sentence with its controlling idea (2) supporting details‚ and (3) a clinching sentence. Coherence in the paragraph The word "coherence" derived from "cohere" literally means "to hold together". If the sentences in the paragraph should relate to the topic
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process 6.) character sketch 7.) definition 8.) classification 9.) exemplification 10.) cause and effect 11.) comparison and contrast 12.) details 13.) analogy Examples 1.)Descriptive paragraphs are often used to describe what a person looks and acts like. Read this example descriptive paragraph‚ notice how descriptive paragraphs are arranged by putting together all the sentences about the same thing. Here is an example of a descriptive paragraph: I am forty years old‚ rather tall
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Plagiarism is wrong for several reasons. For one it deprives myself the ability to acquire knowledge and gain writing skills. Secondly I am taking credit for the authors work‚ which is lying. Lastly it is disrespectful to my teachers and fellow students. Plagiarism deprives myself the ability to acquire knowledge and gain writing skills. Knowledge is not gained because I am not the one writing the information down from my research and knowledge on the topic. All I do is research a source and
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Plagiarism for new students 8/11/2012 Plagiarism Contents Page 3) Introduction 3) What is plagiarism? 3) How to avoid plagiarism 4) Methods of preventing plagiarism 4) Conclusion 5) Bibliography In this report‚ the views of plagiarism will be looked at and explored in depth to discover what plagiarism is‚ an example of a case where plagiarism was at play‚ how to avoid plagiarism‚ steps to take to avoid plagiarism and the conclusion looking back over the following text about
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Plagiarism: Plagiarism comes from a Latin word meaning “kidnap”. Many people have given different meanings to the term plagiarism. Plagiarism is the worst form of fraud a student can be involved in. All students are advised to avoid this at all times. Plagiarism is caused by unfamiliarity with what they are supposed to be writing about or what they are learning about students are advised to familiarize themselves with the topics they are supposed to write about in advance. In my case I did not
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