The Factors Of The University Students - 1239 Words

This essay will discuss about the factors of why university students plagiarise, moreover, it will show that ethical consideration is important to academics. According to Park (as cited in Ting, Musa and Mah, 2014, p.74) â€Å"Plagiarism is the theft of words or ideas, beyond what would normally be regarded as general knowledge†. Plagiarism is a common academic dishonesty action in universities, although university have their own penalties system to punish and warn those student who plagiarise, but it still occur constantly in universities. This essay will point out that student may plagiarise for a couple of reasons and also point out that ethical consideration is so important to academic. Firstly, Student lack of citation skills, they do†¦show more content†¦Different countries have different culture, some countries such as china, lecturer taught student to memorize answers, before the examination, or even in high school, and student used most of the time to memorize the textbook. It is different to western countries that student need to paraphrase what they had learnt, not memorize the answers, and because of international student are not familiar to reference in English because English are their second language, and they do not know how to reference and cite, or lack of reference skills. Ting, Musa and Mah (2014) stated that most of the student do not cite in their assignments because of they do not know how to cite† (p.80). On the other hand, Ting, Musa and Mah (2014) also point out that pre- univers ity and diploma students just received a brief concept of plagiarism or based on what their lecturers had teach them(p.74). These show that student plagiarise accidentally, because of insufficient training for the reference skills. In universities, student may not be reminded to hand in their assignment, they should organize themselves, plan and arrange their time to do the assignment and hand in before or on due date, if not, the assignment will deduct mark by the lecturer or even awarded a mark of zero. However, there are still a lot of student have poor time management and bad personal organization. According to Comas-Forgas and Sureda-Negre (2010), â€Å"58% of student place high relevance on lack of