Tuesday 8 January 2013

Wednesday 26 December 2012

Are Academic Graders and Computers Responsible For Plagiarism?


How often have we heard that student was expelled from the university because of plagiarism? This is a very common thing now adays, and it has made me wonder that who is to blame for such behavior of students? Many would say that students themselves, but I do not get one thing; why would someone jeopardize their future and career just like that, knowing that the penalty of plagiarism is sever why would students still be doing that? What is pressurizing them to that extend and how can we stop this practice?

There are many questions the answers to whom we have to find, and in this article we will be discussing some points that might help us reach the conclusion. Keeping the name confidential, we are sharing a true story. X was a post graduate student, he submitted a custom essay and later on when he was found guilty and upon asking he admitted that he has copied the material. He said that he was working part time somewhere to make his both ends meet and that’s why he was short of time to write a original custom essay. He said he knew that if would not submit it on time, it will cost him a lot of marks and he could not have afforded that.

So, instead he decided to copy and submits on time. The university found him guilty of the offence and he was told to repeat the module and pay the fee again. Baroness Deech, who headed the UK's student complaint agency back at that time, said that incidents like these are not to be fully blamed on students. She said that teachers are to be blamed equally because there is a new culture of expectation from the students I which they are handed over drained down few points in power point and they are asked to come up with detail and lengthy assignments like custom essays. The result is either these students take help from custom essay writing service or like X if they are not affording enough then they copy someone else’s work.

When students are burdened to that extend, and when they have pool and saga of knowledge to copy the martial, it is of little surprise that many students are accused of plagiarism daily. There are many students who are not writing their own term papers or essays and are getting them ordered from any custom essay writing service, and they are not caught by the authority because the work is not plagiarized. But that doesn’t imply that they have done their work themselves, how are authorities going to find such cases?
Thus, instead of making the penalties more stricter we need to find the root cause of this problem and get rid of it once and for all.