2 Article, Schools stress to pupils: No copying; Tokyo University to crack down on plagiarism in theses

Schools stress to pupils: No copying

I agree that students should not copy the whole paragraph from internet or textbook when doing research or projects because this would not help the students to improve on their presentation. Copying the whole paragraph is easy as it does not require the students to think of how to make it their own answers. Therefore, students would not be learning much in the project if copying of whole paragraph is carried out. Students should try to write out their own paragraph and the paragraph must be link to the evidence they found. This can eventually allow the students to score more marks when he uses evidence to support their own paragraph and not copying the whole paragraph as answer and allow them to remember citation.

To me, I think it is good that primary school started teaching students about citation and plagiarism as it would educate them so as when they step into secondary school, they will remember how serious is citation and plagiarism.

From this sentence,

“Unanimously, all institutions said they relied most on teachers' intuition to spot instances of plagiarism and to take action against the student.”

I suggest that institutions should not relied most on teachers’ intuition to spot instances of plagiarism and to take action against the student because that does not really prove plagiarism. Maybe what the students had typed is similar but however, evidence is still needed to mark the student with plagiarism. Therefore using teachers’ intuition is not quite acceptable.

Tokyo University to crack down on plagiarism in theses

To me, I support the choice of that university as they expelled Anilir from the university as the mistake Anilir does is truly unforgivable. Even if Anilir did not plagiarize, she had falsely claimed to have graduated from the Illinois Institute of Technology in the United States and Istanbul Technical University in Turkey. This is seriously unforgivable. Therefore, I support that university choice of expelling Anilir.

Common point between this 2 article

Both article talks about plagiarism and both shows that people uses plagiarism to accomplish their mission. I agree that plagiarism is not a good way of doing work as it does not require the students, people to put in much effort in placing own words in their projects or work as all the paragraphs are given in the internet or textbook.

By: Winston