Student plagiarism

It is no secret that with the spread of Internet technology, institutions of higher education worldwide have faced a serious plagiarism problem. More and more often, students are passing off other people's intellectual works as their own without remorse. Professors and university professors declare that this situation significantly undermines the quality of education and reduces the level of students' knowledge.

But what do students themselves think about this? Philip Newton, a British professor of health sciences at Swansea University, recently conducted a survey on the subject. About six hundred undergraduate and graduate students in various fields were asked whether the use of plagiarism was acceptable to them.

From the total number surveyed: 86% of the students responded that the use of someone else's work was acceptable within reasonable limits; 4% felt that appropriation of someone else's work should be strictly forbidden ; the remaining 10% of respondents saw nothing wrong with the phenomenon.

Students' opinions on what punishment for the use of plagiarism could be considered fair were also mixed. 47% responded that penalties should be less severe than those currently used by research universities. In the opinion of 10% of students, presenting someone else's work as their own should result in immediate expulsion. 12% considered a warning or a fine a fair penalty for plagiarism. 31% decided that an academic paper based on someone else's ideas, rewritten in their own words, is perfectly acceptable and could go unpunished.

In the survey, 31% thought that an academic paper based on someone else's ideas, rewritten in their own words, is perfectly acceptable and could go unpunished.

Professor Newton himself calls plagiarism – imitation learning, which should be countered by harsh penalties as the most effective tool for deterring cheating in the learning process.

2022-01-14 07:13:50
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