Awareness On The Plagiarism 2013 - UniKL | Malaysian Institute Of ...

Organizer : Ms. Latipah Noordin
Teaching & Learning Unit (TLU)
Patron : Dean /HOC
Universiti Kuala Lumpur –Malaysian Institute of Industrial Technology
(UniKL-MITEC)

Overview
Introduction
Definition
Why???
• Factors
Consequences
• Penalty
• Cases
How to avoid?

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Definition of Plagiarism
The word
“plagiarism”
comes from the
Latin plagiarus
meaning
“kidnapper”

According to the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary (http://www.mw.com),
to plagiarize means:
“transitive senses : to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as
one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source
intransitive senses : to commit literary theft : present as new and original
an idea or product derived from an existing source”
• In an instructional setting, plagiarism
occurs when a writer deliberately uses
someone else’s language, ideas, or other
original (not common-knowledge) material
without acknowledging its source.(Council
of Writing Program Administrators,
January, 2003)
• Plagiat diklasfikasikan sebagai mencedok
kata, idea dan sebagainya daripada orang
lain dan menggunakannya sebagai karya
sendiri, tiruan atau menciplak. (Kamus
Dewan Edisi Keempat,2005 )

Thousand of Excuses
I’m practicing it before
..in any of my assignment ..
It’s okay if
I don’t get caught!
This assignment
was BORING
Everyone does it!.
.So what ???
I was too busy to
write that paper!
(Job, big game, Face booking !!!)
My parents
expect “A”s!

Thousand of Excuses
“I’m too busy.”
“My work isn’t good enough.”
“I need to cheat in order to have a high
G.P.A.”
“I didn’t know it was plagiarism.”
“They’ll never find out… I’ve done it before”
“I meant to include citations, but I
forgot/ran out of time.”

What’s wrong with
Plagiarism ???
Plagiarism is one of the academic misconduct. Academic
misconduct is cheating. It is any
action that a student knows (or should know) will lead to the
improper evaluation of academic work.
If the lecturer does
not detect it, academic misconduct defeats the purpose of
academic work because you are pretending to know more or
write better than you actually do.
• 1 st : Plagiarism defeat the purpose of University’s goal.
• 2 nd : Plagiarism is a form of lying
• 3 rd : Plagiarism defeats the purpose of scholarship

Effect of Plagiarism
• 1 st : Plagiarism defeat the purpose of
University’s goal.
When you substitute someone else's understanding or expression for your
own, you avoid the work of using and improving your own expressive
ability. Therefore, plagiarism defeats the university's goal of teaching
students to write, not just copy.
• 2 nd : Plagiarism is a form of lying.
• It is because the lecturer is expecting to read your words, not someone
else's. Plagiarism destroys the mutual respect that should exist between
lecturer and student. Many lecturers take plagiarism very personally.
If you have ever taken your time to teach someone something you
consider valuable and then found that your time was wasted, you will
understand the feeling.

Plagiarism Effect
• 3 rd : Plagiarism defeats the purpose of scholarship.
• Thus it is unacceptable from all scholars, not just students. The goal of
scholarship is to discover, understand, and create. That purpose is defeated
when old knowledge is fraudulently presented as original and new. For the
same reason plagiarism is also unacceptable in many non-academic professional
fields such as journalism and creative writing.
• Exceptions in certain fields do not extend to students.
• There are certainly some times in industry and the professions where
originality and authorship are not important and it is appropriate to take
other people's words without citing them. (For example, an engineer /
executive might copy report for a else where without being expected to cite
the source) .
• However, even if you are training for such a profession, you are a student
who is still learning the craft. Whatever the conventions are in the "real world"
of employment in the real world of teaching and learning you are expected to do
your own writing and avoid plagiarism no matter what class you are in.

What are the common
kinds of Plagiarism ?
• There are three common kinds of plagiarism:
•
‣Whole-paper plagiarism,
‣Cut-and-paste plagiarism , and
‣Cut-and-paste with references.

What are the common kinds
of Plagiarism ?
• Whole-paper plagiarism.
• In this form of plagiarism, all or most of the student's paper is lifted from another student or a
published source, for example the Internet, a book, or a print article. It especially bad to buy a
paper from any source that offers ready-made term papers.
•
• Cut-and-paste plagiarism.
• In this form of plagiarism, parts of a paper ranging from phrases and sentences to entire
paragraphs are taken from the Internet or somewhere else and incorporated into the student's
paper with no signal that they are not the student's own expression.
• Cut-and-paste plagiarism with references.
• In this form of plagiarism, words or ideas in a paper are included from another source, a
reference to the source is included, but there is no quotation signal. Again, the problem is that
a reference indicates only that the accompanying text is somehow derived from or related to
the cited source. A reference alone does not show that the text is a direct quotation from that
source. Thus a reference alone does not suspend the lecturer's expectation that the words are
your own words. A direct quotation with a reference but without quotation marks is
plagiarism.

Consequences

Consequences
• Penalty of Academic Misconduct: Clause 4.1 page 26 in the
University Rules and Regulation Handbook, 7th Edition,2012.
• The penalty can be any one or a combination of two or
more of the following penalties ranging from:
• a) reprimanding students in writing;
• b) re-doing of assignment with reduced marks;
• c) Students' work is given 0 marks;
• d) reducing 50% marks for student’s coursework;
• e) Suspension for one semester;
• f) Expulsion from the University

Plagiarism …and How to
avoid it !!!
Use these three strategies,
• Quoting
• Paraphrasing
• Summarizing
To blend source materials in with your own.

Plagiarism …and How to avoid it !!!
(1) Quoting : To use Proper Citation…
MLA / APA / Harvard
Quotations are the exact words of an author, copied directly from a
source, word for word. Quotations must be cited!
Use quotations when:
• You want to add the power of an author’s words to support your
argument
• You want to disagree with an author’s argument
• You want to highlight particularly eloquent or powerful phrases or
passages
• You are comparing and contrasting specific points of view
• You want to note the important research that precedes your own .

"An effective structure is important" (Redman, 2006, p.22)
Redman, P., 2006. Good essay writing: a social sciences guide. 3rd ed.
London: Open University in assoc. with Sage.
As Frank Lentricchia argues, The Waste Land should not be understood as a
logical sequence of events but as “an intellectual and emotional complex
grasped in an instant of time” (194).
In general, when writing for a professional publication, it is good practice to
make reference to other relevant published work. This view has been
supported in the work of Cormack (1994).
Cormack (1994, pp.32-33) states that "when writing for a professional
readership, writers invariably make reference to already published works".

Plagiarism …and How to avoid it !!!
(2) Paraphrasing
Paraphrasing means rephrasing the words of an author, putting
his/her thoughts in your own words. When you paraphrase, you
rework the source’s ideas, words, phrases, and sentence structures
with your own. Like quotations, paraphrased material must be
followed with in-text documentation and cited on your Works-
Cited page.
Paraphrase when:
• You plan to use information on your note cards and wish to avoid
plagiarizing
• You want to avoid overusing quotations
• You want to use your own voice to present information

Plagiarism …and How to avoid it !!!
(3) Summarizing
• Summarizing involves putting the main idea(s) of one or several
writers into your own words, including only the main point(s).
Summaries are significantly shorter than the original and take a
broad overview of the source material. Again, it is necessary to
attribute summarized ideas to their original sources.
Summarize when:
• You want to establish background or offer an overview of a topic
• You want to describe knowledge (from several sources) about a topic
• You want to determine the main ideas of a single source

IF you are caught
PLAGIARISED, it..
• Shows that you are UNETHICAL person..
•Is cheating , stealing other people ’s
works !!!
• Shows that you're Unprofessional…
•Shows NO Originality in your works !!!
• Shows that your works / ideas have
… NO QUALITY at all !!!

Works Cited
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19 Aug. Retrieved from http://www.cnn.com
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Forbes.com. Retrieved from http://www.forbes.com
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• Yasin, Khairina. (2009, May 25). Tugasan berunsur plagiat. Berita Harian.
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