Essay On Academic Plagiarism

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Academic Plagiarism in Computer Science

STUDENT NAME: Beebi Siti Salimah Binte Liyakkathali
STUDENT NUMBER: 5281878
SUBJECT: IACT 201 - Professional practice & ethics
LECTURER: Dr Lawrence Sim

Tables of Contents
Introduction 1
Academic plagiarism 1
Legal Rights of the Original Author 2
Legal Rights of the Plagiarist 2
Comparison of policies on academic plagiarism on different approach to tackle plagiarism 3
Using the Act Utilitarianism to Argue ‘For’ Plagiarism 4
Using the Theory of Kantianism to Argue ‘Against’ Plagiarism 4
In my opinion 5
Good policy in tackling plagiarism 5
Reference 6
Appendix A 7
My Experience, Knowledge and Views about the seriousness of Academic Plagiarism 7

Introduction
Plagiarism derived from …show more content…

Legal Rights of the Original Author
There are many rights to protect the original author. Association for Computing Machinery states that :

Also, under the intellectual Property of Singapore the source codes of the computer are protected under the copyright Literacy work. The display and outline are also protected.[8]
Legal Rights of the Plagiarist
A study was conducted on students view on software plagiarism where students and staff where given a questionnaire of question in regards to academic plagiarism in computing. Many comments of students were made that they use previous works as an inspiration. This is also supported by one of the responses the study had when a question, “Is it acceptable for you to plagiarize when you have the opportunity?”. These “inspiration” is often mistaken as plagiarism whether such an approach is considered plagiarism is questionable. Students blame teachers in this regards due to many reason. When students look out for other sources they believe that programme code looked upon on the same manner as solution to math problem as in having only one correct …show more content…

It informs the students on how plagiarism is a serious offence. The technique made to tackle plagiarism is to grade student’s failure of course or negative marks of the value of the assessment item depending on the type plagiarism. By, failing students and awarding them low grades, students will avoid plagiarism as repeating the subject or course is waste of time and tuition fees.

Journal / Article
Does the computer programming student understand what constitutes plagiarism.[6]
Scope
To find if programming students comprehend what is plagiarism is made up of
Focus
On human intention to cheat and cheating in programming assignments.
Approach
Conduct surveys to all Computer and Information Systems student in all academic level where the responses were anonymous
Conclusion
The paper provides information on why students cheat in and how it can be tackled. The study of art of cheating itself in programming assignment is appraisable as it real life scenario what students face in every

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