Of course, this is a very important issue for any academician (in this context). so, this topic was firstly emphasised by AP Dr Bambang of FP, in his seminar (Wed, 14/9) regarding plagiarism and the implications of it. not many attended the seminar, i counted about less than 20. he told that plagiarism can be in several forms, such as, word-by-word, ideas, authorship, secondary sources, thesaurus (inappropriate paraphrasing), images & other media, as well as self-plagiarism. I was attracted to the last type, 'self-plagiarism', which means that a writer uses his own writing which has been published previously in his current writing without acknowledging the source (i.e. he as the writer). So if i have published somewhere and I want to mention that in my current paper, i've got to write '(Ahmad, 2011), in her research....' to prevent 'self-plagiarism'.
UTM bought the license of plagiarism detection software called 'turnitin', which can be found at www.turnitin.com for staff & students use. It is the regulation of SPS that 20% is the maximum index of plagiarism of any paper or assignment or thesis submitted for evaluation purpose. While for FP, only 10% maximum is allowed.
I've yet to request for the ID & pin for this software from the administrator. But I had the chance to see how it works when Dr Bambang showed some samples of his students' papers. The software intelligently identifies & compares what we write with the original, together with the exact location of the source where we cut & paste it from, and then calculates the index. Isn't it smart?
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