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Cyber plagiarism and intellectual property

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ABSTRACT

This report is about internet or cyber plagiarism and how it can relate to the intellectual property the cases has been increase in number nowadays. This topic will be discuss in detailed about the five type of internet plagiarism that occur using this era of technology that effect the intellectual property of the information author such as copy and paste plagiarism, word switch plagiarism, style plagiarism, metaphor plagiarism and idea plagiarism. Other than that, this issue also will be criticize according to the aspect that happen in plagiarism. The issue that always brought up is the plagiarism among student in college, plagiarism among book author and many more. A few article and journal is used to support the statement in this report especially for the issue that is going on. Besides, few suggestions how to overcome this internet plagiarism issue. For example using an apps that can detect plagiarism and throughout this topic, there will be other solution and suggestion on how to manage this plagiarism issue. The internet plagiarism issue will be explore within this report and journal and article is used to support any suggestion on how to overcome it.

INTRODUCTION

We are wondering what is cyber plagiarism? From my opinion on cyber plagiarism is that when the work of other person being copied from internet and without mentioning that it is their work and also admit it is our work that is when plagiarism happen. Other than that, my opinion on this is also when a person take other source of knowledge or idea without permission is also a plagiarism. Cyber plagiarism occurs when a person uses internet technology to locate, copy, and submit the work of another without citing the source of information. With greater access to Internet and it resources, the 21st Century learner can quickly locate information and cut and paste that information into their own documents (Sherry, n.d.) and (McMurtry, 2001). According to Indiana University Bloomington School of Education define plagiarism as someone else's work, including the work of other students, as one's own which refers to education plagiarism. Any ideas or materials taken from another source for either written or oral use must be fully acknowledged, unless the information is common knowledge. What is considered "common knowledge" may differ from course to course. (Part II, Student Responsibilities, Academic Misconduct, 2005). Six hundred ninety-eight undergraduates (85.9% between the ages of 17 and 23; 87.5% in the first through fourth year) from nine colleges and universities completed a survey on Internet plagiarism. A substantial minority of students reported they use the Internet to copy and paste text into their papers without citation (Patrick M. Scanlon and David R. Neumann, 2002). This is for the case that happen especially to student in college or university. How does this happen? From my own opinion how it happens is when a student is given a limited time to finish up their work and also because of the attitude when they set their mind that as long as their work if done which simply mean they don’t have the responsibility to finish up their work in a good quality. Well the student at least should give credit to the originality of others and acknowledge an indebtedness whenever they directly quoting another person's actual words, whether oral or written, using another person's ideas, opinions, or theories and also when they paraphrasing the words, ideas, opinions, or theories of others, whether oral or written. This is where internet plagiarism start.

ISSUE

In internet plagiarism there is a lot of issue that are related to it. The issue that will covered in this report is plagiarism done by university student. Nowadays, there are increasing in the number of plagiarism cases around the world that is done by student. For example in this cases, a survey that has been conducted by Donald McCabe, from Rutgers University says that “66% of 16,000 students from 31 prestigious U.S. universities have cheated at least once.” This is a huge in number of plagiarism that happen among the universities students nowadays. Not only in this era but also plagiarism has been detected also from the past years. It is also shown that the increased in cases between the years of 1993 to 1997 say University of California. Well this plagiarism issue among student usually happen in doing their assignment is where internet plagiarism occurs, plagiarism in exam is more to the education side and many more. Going deeper into this two problem that they go through we will get to question how it is that their assignment contain the criteria of internet plagiarism. According to the reading that I have made from a journal of Barnbaum, C. Plagiarism: A Student's Guide to Recognizing It and Avoiding It.” Valdosta State University there are five type of internet plagiarism which is copy and paste plagiarism, word switch plagiarism, style plagiarism, idea plagiarism and authorship plagiarism. First type of plagiarism that will be discuss is copy and paste plagiarism. This plagiarism often happen among university student where they exactly just copy any information from the internet that they found and just paste it into their assignment without citing the author. The example of sentences such as,

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Plagiarism is the “reproduction of someone else’s words, ideas or findings and presenting them as one’s own without proper acknowledgement” (Undergraduate Course Handbook: 2008, p.24)

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Plagiarism is the reproduction of someone else’s words, ideas or findings and presenting them as one’s own without proper acknowledgement.

This example is taken from (Adapted from Instructor Theresa Ireton’s in-class presentation)

This copy and paste plagiarism is done when a student is in a rush to finish their assignment and because of the last minute work. This type of plagiarism can also be called as plagiarism of words because student just directly copy from the internet. Second type of plagiarism that occur is, word switch plagiarism. Also, notice jargon and advanced vocabulary usages (Hinchliffe, 1998) when student is doing an internet plagiarism. This is when a few words has been changed from the original words from the internet. By any action that the student wants to quotes a sentences from internet they must put cite of the author and a quotations marks. In this case my opinion is that the student at least have an effort to make it in their own words but in a wrong way. Probably it is because they have lack of knowledge about how to use the sentence in a correct way. Student only get the idea of writing a sentences from internet when they search for the information. This makes them tend to use the exact words from internet. Other terms for this type of plagiarism is, plagiarism of structure.

The third type of internet plagiarism is idea plagiarism. Idea plagiarism is like a solution to a problem, creative invention idea that is belong to an author or inventor where actually every student need to give an attribute to the author because the idea does not belong to the students. Student normally have an easy way to accessed internet to find idea for their assignment or nay other things. This idea doesn’t belongs to them but still they take the idea and admit it is their idea. Idea can always be found in anywhere including internet. That is why student choose to plagiarize from internet sources. But for any general knowledge like science knowledge for example the benefits of tomatoes and many more needs no reference. My opinion this idea plagiarism is less rather than any type of plagiarism. Sometimes student need this idea to understand more about certain concept in their study. But as a student, they tend to take this opportunity for granted. Suppose to be as a university student they should have new and fresh idea that can be their own intellectual property someday. Even when they want to used someone’s idea they should give credit towards that person for the idea was not the one that came from themselves especially when they took any information of idea from the internet. There is another term for this type of plagiarism that is plagiarism of idea. The fourth type of plagiarism that university student always commit is style plagiarism which means when a student found an article source from internet they copy every sentences-by-sentences or every paragraph is totally the same is also called a plagiarism. This is because the reasoning style is still belongs to the author. Beside, when student is doing plagiarism using internet it really can show in the upper/lower case and capitalization, for web site printout page numbers of dates and letters or words that have been whited out (Hinchliffe, 1998). In this case, it is a minor plagiarism better than the other. At least, student should be able to make their own sentences using the right way not just copy it from the original sentences in the article found in the internet. Lastly, the fifth type of plagiarism that has been the case that happen to university student is plagiarism of authorship (Adapted from Instructor Theresa Ireton’s in-class presentation). My opinion on this type of plagiarism is when a student took a complete work of an author in internet and admit it is hers or his work. This type of plagiarism is the worst that a student have made. Because it shows that a student don’t have their own effort to make an assignment by their own. Which we called it effortless. This should not happen in a student life. For my opinion life as a student is where we need to learn more new things that can make us full of new knowledge that can give us a lot more benefits for our career. This is all the criteria that has been listed in the journal that’s show and proven from the work of a university student. But it is also to be said that student do all of this plagiarism is to get good mark. It is proven through the journal of The Problems with Plagiarism by Nathan Schiller. Internet Plagiarism also can be called as Cyber Plagiarism because any of the source that is took from the technology is called Cyber plagiarism. Other than the type of plagiarism that student made from the internet there are also other plagiarism that happen in this cyber. Using search engine such as Google and Bing to access a thousand website and copy any information directly into student document is also a cyber-plagiarism (McMurtry, 2001). Cyber plagiarism is also and electronic document which means student used technology such as USB card and email to pass on their work (McMurtry, 2001). Web Paper Mills is also one of the plagiarism that occur in cyber. There are a lot of document that cover every topic in website that can be downloaded and purchased (McMurtry, 2001). Student easy look it from then website.

The second issue that will be discuss is the issue of plagiarism in exam which is in the education field. This issue happen in one of the university in oversea. This is just for an example and a case that every student can learn from it. It is to be said that plagiarism is not only from the assignment that is done by student but cheating in exam is also called as plagiarism because of some reason. The reason are, the suspected student have the same answer when the exam is said to be bring home exam. Student tend to copy each other answer. The action will be taken towards the student. By going through the journal about this case it show that again the student take this exam for granted and tend to take the opportunity to cheat on it. My opinion student should have their desire to try their best in doing their job as student. This is their self-priority that is important to themselves. From this discussion it’s been detect the issue that is going on towards university student. But there is always a differences in plagiarism that happen using internet and also plagiarism that happen in education field. We can conclude that internet or cyber plagiarism in more to the used of internet technology in doing their assignment without giving any citation to the author while, education plagiarism is more in the student itself such that has been mention like cheating and copy from friends work.

SUGGESTIONS

My suggestion on preventing and to solve this plagiarism issue that happen among the university student is in a few ways. First of all, it is better to give an assignment or essay to the student by encouraging them to find source from journal and article. This way which the lecturer give a good instruction and how to handle quotation, citation and many more. Moreover, they can have more idea and explore more information on their assignment topic. This suggestion idea has been stated in the journal of Plagiarism by university students: the problem and some proposals by Brian Martin. Other than that, university authorities can open a special plagiarism class for student who wanted it. Every lesson that they learn in class is a beneficial for them. This class can handle by lecturer, professor and also teacher who is more informative in plagiarism. By giving this kind of lesson to the student probably they would be more understand on the concept of referring on other material and the best part is they can develop their own writing skill which can good for them. Next is to give an acknowledgement to the student for their effort especially working in a group. In order to increase the good competitive attitude that will always make them think to be more creative in doing their assignment. For example providing for group submissions accompanied by signed statement allocating credit for work done which is the example given in Brian Martin’s journal. Checking the student assignment using application that can detect plagiarism is also one of the way to detect it. When it has been confirmed that student do plagiarism action can be taken towards them. According to article written by Stephanie Akin, McClatchy/Tribune news example of application to detect plagiarism is Turnitin.com which is one of the internet program. The use of plagiarism-detection software by professors “appears to be growing” (Young, 2001, A26).

Besides giving a prevention ways we also need to take action when plagiarism already happen among student. The first action that will be taken the consequences can vary, depending on the teacher and how the student was cheating said in the article by Michael Bravo, AMUNDSEN. The authority can depends on the teacher or lecturer. Usually zero marks will be given to the person who do plagiarism. Other than that, in some cases, the student may be allowed to redo a written paper or report with a reduced grade. By redoing their assignment they can improve it with a good way and learn a lesson from it. Next is, college or university can take this opportunity to train the student instead giving them a punishment. The person who get caught plagiarism is suggest to attend a training or workshop on plagiarism. This to make them alert on the consequences of their action. A combination of training and discipline is a common approach to combating university or college plagiarism. Last but not least, the most extreme penalty that can be given towards student who plagiarize is including academic suspension, expulsion and temporary or permanent transcript notation of plagiarism. This penalties gives a bad impression on the student that it will make him or her hard to graduate and it takes time to settle it down. It will effect on the reputation of that student. There is always a consequences that a student must take when they do mistake.

CONLUSION

The topic plagiarism has been discuss, criticize and suggestion also has been given to overcome the issue. As we know now internet plagiarism is one of the intellectual property that has been used wrongly in nowadays by university student. Internet plagiarism brings mostly disadvantage in the person that doing it. But also we know there is always a right way to make it right in handling this issue. Throughout this report there are a lot types of plagiarism and the consequences that will happen. As a young generation in this new era we should have develop more our inner skill especially in pouring out our idea, skill and many more. University student need to have extra effort in doing their job to complete the assignment that has been given because it is one of the responsibility of being a student. Every people plays an important role in making this issue right. As a teacher, lecturer and any authority in university has to work together and teach their student right way to complete their assignment. The university authority should be stricter towards the student during exam. By all of this ways plagiarism case can be decrease and a quality of a good work from student can be produce more. Conclusion, plagiarism is not the right way to make things easy but it makes the student learn in doing their assignment.

REFERENCE.

http://www.plagiarism.org/resources/facts-and-stats/

http://www.mcny.edu/student_serv/lecblog/the-problems-with-plagiarism

http://education.seattlepi.com/consequences-plagiarism-college-1252.html

http://www.citejournal.org/vol1/iss4/currentpractice/article2.htm

http://www.theguardian.com/education/2010/jun/20/internet-plagiarism-rising-in-schools

http://plagiarism.wiki.westga.edu/Cyber+Plagiarism

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