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This page is created for you to raise your doubts and ask for help in writing the rest of the chapters for your report which is due on 3 August 2011. Your questions should only be those regarding your report writing.

Dear Students,

Attached is the copy of the previous exam paper for you to discuss the answer online.



Assalamualaikum miss siti,

i want to ask about assignment part recommendation, can we reference from text book? -azirah aziz

Yes we can. That is the best point of reference.~Siti

based on the phone conversation Shamsul, write your suggestion here: __**B**__**ackground of the study:** __-To understand why students always used "copy and paste "methode due to the current technology.__ __-To understand the root cause behaviour "Copy and paste" among the students.__ __-To know the impact to the quality of the students which is used "copy and paste" technique in the universities.__

Shamsul, this is not the background of the study. This is the objectives of the study.Why don't you start the background with the definition of plagiarism? Start like this:

Plagiarism is an act of cheating (Clark, 2006) where writers use other writer's words and make it their own in their writing. The trend of copying has been very serious in universities all over the world that nine out of ten students are found to have plagiarised in their written assignments‍ (Clark, 2006) ‍.

Since Shamsul has touched on the objectives, let's also talk about the objectives. He has accurately stated the reasons for conducting the study but let me refine his words. It will look something like this:

The overall objective of the research is to investigate the trend of plagiarising among university students. Specifically, the research is carried out to: a) __examine__ the reasons for students to plagiarise b) __investigate__ the ways students plagiarise c) __find out__ the solutions for plagiarising
 * Objectives of Study**:

How do I get to these objectives? I look at the tables and pie-chart under Primary Data and I also look at the paragraph under Situation. Look at the third last sentence of the paragraph, "...the Teaching and Learning Unit of Universiti Perkasa has conducted a study on plagiarism". This is where I get the main objective of the research and that is to look at the trend of plagiarising.

Assamualikum..

miss i try to answer(taken from table1 and figure 1 final examination sem1 2010/2011)- Mustafa Amin

‍From the data given, there are about trend of plagiarism among students in institutions of higher learning in Malaysia. ‍ ‍The problem come because some of factor is the student very little understanding of in- ‍ text citation, the problem cover about 91% from 500 student were severed. Another factor come from attitude, where there completing assignment at the very last minute, this proved when 76% from 500 student were surveyed. When view with the development, especially internet us a one of medium to get essay information. Make 80% from they reason easy access to online to online resources. Again the attitude of student itself no firm action, this group represent about 40% from surveyed. Another reason about is 45% too many assignment to complete and last reasons is wanting to get a better grade is about 85%. ‍From the all data 50% cutting and pasting from online source and another 15% coping directly from printed source, and more 28% the student coping from previous students assignment and surplus 7% paraphrasing or summering without citing the source. ‍  Sample answer **Finding and Discussion** The objective of the research is to examine the trend of plagiarism among students in Malaysian institutions of higher learning. Table 1 shows the common reasons for students to plagiarise. ‍The main reason for plagiarising is their limited understanding of in-text citation, which accounts for 91 per cent from the 500 students that were surveyed. This is followed by the pressure of wanting to have better grades, which accounts for 85 per cent and consequently, students' attitude of procrastinating their work to the last minute, which accounts for 76 per cent of the whole student population. ‍‍ All this could boils down to the fact that students do not have the right attitude when they begin writing. Another possible reason for this could be because the teaching of writing in class has not been effective. ‍

‍Figure 1 provides the ways students plagiarise, that are by copying directly from printed sources, copying from previous assignments, cutting and pasting from online resources and paraphrasing or summarising without citing from resources. ‍

‍It is obvious that most students, which accounts for half of the student population (50 per cent), resort to cutting and pasting from online resources. The next easy way for students to complete their assignments is by copying from previous students' assignments which is 28 per cent from the whole student population. Meanwhile, 15 per cent of the students would copy directly from printed sources. ‍ It can be summarised that students resort to such ways because they are not taught to write responsibly since secondary schools ‍(Clark, 2006) ‍. Writing needs practice and by the time these students reach university, it is difficult to kick the habits of poor writing. Moreover, the penalty for plagiarising in writing has not be strictly followed by lecturers for many reasons (Clark, 2006). That is probably the reason for this trend to go unchecked.

ok mis tq for your commnet..

5/8/2011 (Friday)