Google search engine gives people a large and informative database which eases and causes them to search for writer's articles and copy their works.
The German defence minister, Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg has forced to resign his position due to the plagiarism action he made by copying the entire doctorate thesis. The case has been proved to be real by the University of Bayreuth’s investigation.
However, software such as Turnitin which enable students and journalists to check whether they have plagiarised other people’s works are no longer useful and effective due to the leakage that people have found to cheat through the software.
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Dr John Olsson from the Forensic Linguistics Institute claims that the reason of why students plagiarise is because they have not be taught to now to write an essay without copying others from the beginning. Nevertheless, Helene Hegemann, a German author argues that by mixing other people’s articles with own should not be considered as an action of plagiarism.
Plagiarism is actually an irresponsible action which has to be avoided from students and journalists. Although Google offers an enormous database for users does not mean that people can misuse it by copying people’s resources into their own. Besides, students and journalists should able to mixing the ideas from journal articles and should not be considered as plagiarism action. However, Turnitin is useful software to check plagiarism of students. Apparently, this software is currently the most effective way to determine plagiarism.
According to Williams (2010), there is a gradual rise of the number of student who plagiarise in the university. Students nowadays search information and journal articles through the internet and copy words and sentences from there to make their own essay. He further states that most of the school and the universities trust to the Turnitin software which helps them to check student’s essays to see whether they have plagiarised or not, and how similar their works compared to other universities’ essays.
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Reference
Williams, R 2010, ‘Internet plagiarism rising in schools,’ Guardian.co.uk 20 June, viewed 10 June 2011, <http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2010/jun/20/internet-plagiarism-rising-in-schools?INTCMP=SRCH>.
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