Based on the definition of plagiarism by University of Oxford, plagiarism is the copying or
paraphrasing of other people’s work or ideas without full acknowledgment. On the other word,
we could say that plagiarism is stealing other people's work. As a students, we cannot escape of having
chance to do plagiarism when we do our assignments or other kinds of work that require us to search
a lot of information from various sources, such as internet or archives of people's work where we can
find hundreds or maybe millions of data and sometimes we find that it is a lot more easier to copy
them rather than do it by ourselves.
I have done my reading regarding this topic that more into the high-tech plagiarize. High-tech plagiarize
often done by using smartphone, laptop and also the internet. The teenager is identified as the one that
always involve with this crime or in other context is the students itself. Basically, there are many factor
can contribute to this problem such as lack of knowledge on how getting information from internet or
other sources, do not have awareness to the consequences that will happen if we done plagiarism and so on.
Based on the articles, it is mentioned about cheating during examination. The lack of monitoring during the exam is the factor why this could happen. The students will bring they cell-phone to the exam hall and
hide it somewhere where the teacher could not see it. Then it will be easy for them to find the answers directly from the world wide web. This situation also can be identify as plagiarize others work. Well this
is simply because the answer were taking from a work of a person without his acknowledgment, of course.
Hence, the teacher come out with many idea to solve this problem such as, banned the use of phone
during exam and also increase the monitoring skills for the teacher to enhance a better attention for
them. Besides, the technology nowadays come out with many unpredictable yet useful for authority to
trace the one that doing plagiarism such as turn it in software and also many other tools that can be use
to fight this problem.
In conclusion, I can say that many students do plagiarize because they think that they do not have
other choices and also they do not think that they will not be punished for that offense they have done although they know it is illegal thing to do. Basically, it is intentional thing that is
done by the students.
