Why Student doing plagiarism?

Background of English Students Doing Plagiarism 

Plagiarism is the activity of copying other people's ideas or works to be recognized as one's own work. This dirty thing generally occurs in the world of education, especially at the university level. Most of them (final students) who have to make a thesis as a graduation requirement make them forced to do it or it is intentional.  There are three possibilities of students committing plagiarism for students writing in English as a second language. The first is the desire to take shortcuts. Second, there are differences in cultural practices. The three students have poor skills and/or mastery of the language.

Based on the Journal of "Plagiarism and Academic Writing of Learners of English" written by Virginia LoCastro and Mayumi Masuko. In this journal, three sources of research have been conducted; (1) senior thesis, in English and Japanese, (2) other papers written by students, particularly reaction-summary papers, and (3) input from students in the form of responses to questionnaires and informal interviews conducted during office visits.

The result is about 70% of the senior thesis in Japanese is found. The same was found in the English thesis by a student who had most of his secondary education at an English-international secondary school abroad (Singapore and Australia). Where the student has the entire paragraph and sentence of the original source with a little addition of their own.

Based on the questions that have been conducted on 37 college students in Japan, it has been found that they often commit plagiarism, as well as them. As a result, more than half said that they sometimes or often perform atrium again. As for the reasons why they do it, including; (1) lack of awareness of the importance of Western-style academic writing (3) difficulty in finding ideas according to essay topics (4) lack of understanding of plagiarism rules (5) indifference to plagiarism ( 6) time pressure in completing a thesis ( 7) the professor's lack of accuracy in checking student works.

We can conclude that the lack of training in academic writing in Japanese may have, in students' indifference to plagiarism and a lack of adequate instruction on why they should not plagiarize and how they can avoid plagiarism by paraphrasing, summarizing, and explaining the sources of information. These two points are the main highlights of the background of the case. So to overcome this problem, it is necessary to have academic writing training that is in accordance with the rules for both teachers and students as well as an understanding of how to take an idea correctly without plagiarism.