The Importance Of Plagiarism

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‘Using or claiming the work or ideas of someone else as your own without acknowledgement is wrong.’

The use of terms and documentation of others without acknowledgement is wrong and illegal in some serious cases; it’s against the academic behaviors in learning environment. Working based on the ideas of other, copy their work or using the materials without acknowledge the author is call Plagiarism. According to Brick (2011), he has claims that “It’s wrong because it is tantamount to stealing other people’s ideas”. Plagiarism can be found in a lot of learning environment and teaching, mostly students are intentional to violate the rules, but some cases where new students (international)

Van Buren (2016) claims “There are few consequences for students -zero on the assignment, failure for the course, suspension or expulsion. Some universities have "marked" transcripts. Typically, nothing is done because the teachers often face consequences instead of the students.” There are the simple penalties to students that we could find in any learning environment. Many cases show that the infringer may not be familiar with knowledge and new learning system such as international students, where they are familiar with their system back home. There are many countries that differentiate from their cultural behaviors; according to Ryan (2000) “some cultures would believe it’s impolite for students to reference cited materials for teacher as this indicates that the teacher does not know that the text exists”. Despite having used the tool to prevent students plagiarize such as Turnitin, but still must consider students with language barriers and lack of understanding about the school code of conduct and