Passage
Vol 1, No 2 (2013): October 2013

Students’ Perception on Plagiarism

Mika Hatigoran Manalu (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
25 Feb 2014

Abstract

This research is intended to find out how far college students’ knowledge within act of plagiarism. Also, the issue of plagiarism was lifted to the surface because issues of plagiarism that have been revealed to the public is spread rapidly. One of the main reasons why plagiarism exists because teaching processing in classroom doesn’t care on this issue. In this research, respondents were given a questionnaire that consists of 20 questions. Analysis of completed questionnaire showed student uncertainty about several aspects of plagiarism. Though, the media has given attention to plagiarism, students are not always aware of the limitation between plagiarism and proper academic writing. Perhaps, some information about penalties of plagiarizing should be told to students to make them more aware about this act of cheating. Keywords: Plagiarism, Questionnaire, Students, College, Penalty, Academic Writing

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Journal Info

Abbrev

psg

Publisher

Subject

Humanities Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

Passage is a journal published by English Language and Literature Study Program, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia. Initially published for students’ articles based on their final research paper, Passage now is also accepting articles from researchers outside the study program. The journal focuses ...