Name: Adriana Marcos

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Plagiarism: Do Students Know What It Is?

Technology has evolved and so have the ways in which students look up for
information. The internet has facilitated the access to sources of information
(Dawson, 2006), and nowadays, it is easier to find what you are looking for by just
aware of the importance of citing and referencing the consulted sources in their
using a search engine, such as Google or Bing; however, many of them are not
works, perhaps because of their social background, and for that reason “academics
must become aware of the range of pre-university student experience and how this
may impact on the students’ awareness of plagiarism.” (2006). They might plagiarise
without realising they are doing so, that is why providing the appropriate guidelines
will prevent students from unintentionally or intentionally stealing ideas, pictures, and
words from their original sources. This is part of the process of information
management, in which it is mandatory to follow a certain structure to strategically
write an article and give proper credit to the authors’ ideas.

Moreover, it has been proven that “case studies and scenarios have been
used successfully to engage students in the learning process” (Davis and Wilcock,
2006; Kreber, 2001, as cited in Dawson, 2006, par. 6). To determine how plagiarism
is viewed among the undergraduate Bioscience students, it was developed a case-
based questionnaire, and based on the results, a series of guidelines to help the
students raise awareness about plagiarism. The questionnaires’ results showed that
most of the students were aware of what plagiarism is; however, they were not
certain “as to why certain actions constitute plagiarism” (2006). Considering this, the
guidelines were provided to students to reinforce the information that was not clear
to them, for instance, where plagiarism or collusion occurred in the case-based
practices.

As discussed previously, plagiarism is part of the day-to-day lives of students;

nevertheless, many of them are not aware of what is considered plagiarism, even if
they know its consequences. For that reason, it was developed a series of
questionnaires and case-based practices to analyse the level of knowledge the
students had regarding plagiarism. The results were later used to create into a series
of guidelines to assess students and solve their doubts. It is believed that providing
case-studies is an excellent method to evaluate and to enhance knowledge, as it
facilitates giving feedback to students. Plagiarism can easily occur, therefore it is
important to provide these helpful guidelines to students, regardless of their level of
instruction.
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