Plagiarism is unethical for three reasons: Firstly, it is unethical because it is a form of theft. By taking the ideas and words of others and pretending they are your own, you are stealing someone else’s intellectual property. Secondly, it is unethical because the plagiariser subsequently benefits from this theft.

Students may fear failure or fear taking risks in their own work. Students may have poor time-management skills or they may plan poorly for the time and effort required for research-based writing, and believe they have no choice but to plagiarize.

The Pressure Of Obtaining Good Marks One of the most common reasons why students commit to plagiarize is the pressure to obtain good marks in their assignments. Seeking information and ideas online and through other sources, enables them to get creative and innovative in their assignments.

According to the literature, students commit plagiarism because of various reasons including pressure to meet deadlines; lack of knowledge among students of what constitutes plagiarism; lack of good academic writing skills; convenience (Internet makes “copy and paste” easy); the high cost of studying; pressure from …

What to say

• Begin your intervention with a statement. Example:
• Start the conversation by asking the student a question.
• After listening to the student’s story, express your concerns about the assignment or work in question.
• Tell the student what you’re planning to do next.

Students who plagiarize or otherwise engage in academic dishonesty face serious consequences. Sanctions may include, but are not limited to, failure on an assignment, grade reduction or course failure, suspension, and possibly dismissal.

Plagiarism allegations can cause a student to be suspended or expelled. Their academic record can reflect the ethics offense, possibly causing the student to be barred from entering college from high school or another college. Schools, colleges, and universities take plagiarism very seriously.

If you did plagiarize for one reason or another, say so. If your school is accusing you of plagiarism they likely have compelling evidence already. The best action you can take is not to try and disprove the evidence, but to work with your school to show why you deserve another chance.

How to avoid plagiarism

1. Keep track of the sources you consult in your research.
2. Paraphrase or quote from your sources (and add your own ideas).
3. Credit the original author in an in-text citation and reference list.
4. Use a plagiarism checker before you submit.

Plagiarism can result in you getting suspended or expelled from your course, college/ university. Your entire paper may be rejected, and you will have to start over. Plagiarism could sometimes attract legal action against you such as penalties and fines.

There are various reasons why people can accidentally commit plagiarism. For the most part, it’s not because they want to steal someone else’s idea and take credit for it themselves. Instead, accidental plagiarism is an after-effect of carelessness and lack of attention to detail.

If you as a student are unsure of the consequences of plagiarism or rather doubt them, you should consider the following: Plagiarism can get you expelled from your course, college and/or university. Plagiarism can result in legal action, fines and penalties etc.

Yes, you can get in trouble for self plagiarism. However you can use the material (providing you contact the instructor and make sure it will be accepted the second time) by noting you wrote the original and are citing aspects of the paper.

Originally Answered: Do professors ever keep student papers? In some universities the professors are required to keep the material with them for a certain period of time. This is done for the purpose of accreditation. The visiting team may ask the professor for these materials.

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At the bottom of the Match Breakdown side panel, click the Exclude Sources button. Using the check boxes, select the source(s) you would like to exclude from the paper’s similarity report, and select the red Exclude button. By clicking the Exclude (x) button, this will recalculate the similarity score.

Some universities accept Turnitin scores of 10%, others entertain as high as 45% if the sources are well cited. No matter the accepted score, anything above 20% is just too much plagiarism and shows a lot of copying.

There is nothing wrong with how Turnitin works or the content of your work. If Turnitin has generated 0% it is still a successful submission and no further action is required on your part. This indicates that your work is purely in your own words and the sources you have acknowledged have not been used in other papers.

The red color stands for a warning that your paper is highly plagiarized and is not acceptable for submission. If the colored square of your Turnitin Originality Report is Yellow, then it means that 25% – 49% of your paper or assignment matches something already in the Turnitin database or the online archives.

Reality: The similarity score is just a percentage of material in the paper that matches sources in the Turnitin databases. Text that is quoted and cited may appear as a match in the Similarity Report if quotes have not been excluded from the report; this offers a great opportunity to check for proper citation.

A similarity score of 100% indicates that Turnitin found 100% matching text to one or more sources stored in the Turnitin database.