Constructive Proposal For The Resolution Of Plagiarism And Modern Pirates

The first resolution is to require students to submit their drafts in electronic copies. Lecturer or instructor can use this method as detection aid to detect if any of their students plagiarize their assignment or essay. For example, Turnitin is widely used because we can view the originality of an assignment and know which part is actually written in their own words. In the same time, Turnitin help to educate students about plagiarism because most of the students believed that re-ordering, paraphrasing or inserting one part of a text into their assignment is not plagiarism.

As stated by Najwa Saba Ayon in her journal, titled ‘Student and Instructor Perceptions of Turnitin: A Plagiarism Deterrent?’, 56.2 % of the university students will not plagiarize if they know their paper will be check on Turnitin. Next, they have to provide examples of proper citations. Students must point out the source of the information through quotation, paraphrase or summary that gives credit to the original writer.

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A quotation is a portion of repetition words taken from the text or speech of the original writer or speaker. A paraphrase is to rewrite the meaning of the original writer or speaker using different words from the origin while summary is a synopsis of the main point of the original writer or speaker. The quality of student’s assignment increases as the assignment have strong evidence and support.

According to Maria João Ferro and Hélder Fanha Martins in their research titled Academic Plagiarism: Yieldingto Temptation shows that students taking credits for someone else’s work when completing their assignment.

Fine or punishment should be implement to avoid plagiarism among student or company. If any students or company were caught plagiarize, the higher authorities should punish or fine them so that they will know their mistake. For example, an article titled ‘Court to hear ‘Bohsia’ copyright case” published on 25 July 2018, written by Nurbaiti Hamdan, is about Elias Idris, the writer of Aku Bohsia, sued Yusof and Syamsul because Elias claimed that the film had some similarities between his novel and the movie from the plot twist, character and message in the story. Yusof and Syamsul denied the charges and sued Elias because Elias had damaged their image and the High Court’s ordere Elias to pay RM 100,000 to Yusof and Syamsul.

Besides that the government should empower Copyright Act and Laws on intellectual property. This law protects the copyright owner to make copies and authorize the making of the copies. Literary works, artistic works, musical works, films, sound recordings and broadcasts are protected from being plagiarize by anyone. The copyright owner have the rights to sue those who steal their ideas or design. By empowering this law, some individuals might not plagiarize the owner’s ideas or design because of the exclusive rights owned by the owner. Thus, this could reduce plagiarism especially the branded item.