Plagiarism has always been a problematic issue in literature circle. Many writers have been facing criticisms or accusations over the years. Now, such problem also arose in education system, including the primary education. With advanced technology, many model essays and quotes had been posted online to share with the mass. However, with the similar technology, these became very easily accessible and targets for plagiarist. Thus, from the articles, it is not unusual to spot students doing plagiarism. However, it seems to increase its severity since this has occurred also to primary students.

Several measures should be taken to control even to primary school students, such as implementing a policy for the entire education system. A fail grade that had already been used in tertiary institutions is one of the model solutions. On top of that, this issue can be used as a topic in moral education in primary and secondary education.

To further discuss on local education, primary education should remove the spelling and dictation test as much as possible. Such citation of words and letters to a certain extent distracted the focus of students to attain understanding and correct usage of words and phrases they had learnt.

Bringing matter to the adult world, local City Harvest Church’s senior pastor, Reverend Kong Hee, has recently received critics on a few books that he authored. He, too, was accused of plagiarism of other preachers’ doctrines. After that, the publisher commented in rebuttal that Reverend Kong was quoting instead of plagiarizing. In addition, he had also sought permissions from various original authors before doing those quotations. However, it is clearly that the publisher's omissions in indication brought forth this misunderstanding. Thus, from this example, it can also plainly explain the real difference between approved quotation and unauthorized plagiarism. More importantly, it highlighted the importance to verify any quotations before the accusations arose.

Initially, quotations were meant to bring support for new concept in presentations. Appropriate volume and content of them could increase the level of acceptance and recognition of these new ideas, however, will over-reliance on quotations lead to plagiarism, or even to the end of creativity?

Edward

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Schools in Singapore are now educating students about plagiarism. Plagiarism is a form of copying another person’s idea or work.

Quoted from North Vista Primary principal Phua Kia Wang, he mentioned that 'When told to do research, their first instinct was to copy whole paragraphs from their textbooks or the
Internet,' he recalled. 'The first thing we teach them is to understand and respect the rights of the author, and how to give credit.' This actually teaches students to apply what they learn and understand. There is no point asking the students to do research if they are going to copy and paste everything from the sources. If students practice plagiarism, they are not going to learn anything. They should be taught on plagiarism at a young age. This is to prepare them for future national exams such as the GCE A-level Project Work.

Plagiarism is seen as a serious issue as there will be consequences. At primary level, it usually only involves counselling while polytechnics and universities said the penalties would normally be a fail grade in the course, suspension, or expulsion in the most severe cases. Tokyo universities are also taking the issue of plagiarism more seriously. For instance, they have revoked a doctorate degree.

People who practice plagiarism show that they are not capable of thinking. All they do is just copying and pasting the information. They are taking it for granted and not show appreciation to the author.

julia.

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Plagiarism in primary school is not a serious matter.
Plagiarism in secondary school is a serious matter.
So what is the difference in the seriousness of the similar matter but in different educational system?

In Primary school, students seldom do projects. Their homework and test come from either textbook, workbook or in assessment books or papers. So there is little or no projects involved that requires online research. In tertiary education like Junior Colleges, Polytechnics and Universities,
there are lots of projects that need to be completed.These projects
reflects in their scoring systems in the year-end result slips. To successfully complete these projects, online researching is required. When students plagiarise information and put them into their projects, it is said to be a project that is not done by the owner. Answers are not generated by the owner itself. In another words it's simply called as copying. The possibility of getting a higher or better grade would lead to unfair judgement towards peers who used personal understanding on that topic itself. More over, more serious cases like examination projects if successful, would lead to being rewarded with a degree or scholarship. Such rewards are not deserving. Take for example of a Turkish assistant professor, Anilir, who plagiarized about 40 percent of the data and parts in the University of Tokyo. It caused him his doctoral degree revoked.
However, we must be aware that plagiarism has also a serious impact in primary schools. For an example of a primary 6 student copying essays from a well-known writer. Yes, plagiarism is a critical issue on educational sector but we must still be aware that in primary school, students take take their examination through test or exam papers. Similarly with Tertiary students but tertiary students include projects as one of the contributions in their final year end result. Therefor, there isn't really a huge impact on primary school students but a huge ones on tertiary students.

Overall, plagiarism is one thing that as students to best stay away from when completing any work. It is useful in plagiarism of notes for personal revision purposes if applicable but not strongly adviced in plagiarism on projects purposes.

Er Chin

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Plagiarism is also known as duplicating of others' work without seeking the permission from the author. It can be catergories in various ways and of different levels, borrowing of ideas without lending approval or citing sources from the material is a very common case too. Primary school pupils who normally want to find the meanings of some words that they don;t understand, they will just suf the internet and use "copy and paste" method to complete their task aimlessly.

Due to user-friendliness of resources on the internet which allows student to find materials from which to copy and turn in as their own have already become very common in academic world. Therefore, the serious nature of plagiarism is required to put on the syllabus or course guidelines to let students know the importance of it.

All tertiary schools do not accept plagiarism and work rigid to make students aware of the consequences. It is unforgiving and it is not worth it as it could cost a student career ended. Moreover, if the student is not expelled permanently, all schools have the rights to include details about the student's academic history on transcripts. These will eventually go to future employers and bother the student for the rest of his or her life. What could people think about when you was one kicked out of school or even put on probation is not something desirable and thus it should be kept in mind that the punishment does not end just like this.


Jasmine :D

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Plagiarism refers to the copying of authorised work without the author's permission. Within local context, besides tertiary institutions, plagiarism also affects primary school students. With their immature mindsets, they simply 'copy' information found in the internet and 'paste' it as their own work. Primary level students are usually unaware that such doings are wrong. They see the action of copying as perfectly fine to extract needed passages from the internet since it is 'open' information for everyone. Whereas for secondary and tertiary level students who are at an older age, they should know that plagiarism is a serious offence. However, they take the offence lightly and a few are even unbothered by the consequences that they may face if found to have committed the offence. As a result, the teachers will have to take disciplinary action against those students, either by giving them a fail grade, suspension or in the worse scenario, expulsion.

An increasing number of primary schools these days have taken action in advance by imparting the right principles to students; to cite relevant information from websites rather than copying all in a huge chunk. Teachers have taught students to compile essential information that can also be revised through their own words. Thus, students understand that they have to respect the author/publisher of the textbook/online reference websites and select only the needed information for their own purpose.

On the other hand, while primary students learn and comply with the rule of not committing plagiarism, there are tertiary students who still 'illegally' use other author's work and pledge as their own. Tertiary institutions do take such offences seriously and punish the students accordingly. Students should know how to use the information wisely by being more creative to present their answers or projects through their own style of writing.

Out of foolishness, adults also do commit the plagiarism offence. They present false credentials or education certificates which truly belonged to others, while trying to land a job. There are cases of university professors who try to present their 'own' thesis which was in fact plagiarised from other sources. This issue brings out the importance of moral principles and values. Everyone deserves a right to have their own materials copyrighted as their private property though others may refer to it. By plagiarising other people's work, it is being unfair to the author who worked hard to come up with his own work, but ended up being named under someone else's instead. Anyone can just simply 'copy and paste' directly without doing any hard thinking.

Despite all the plagiarism that is going around, primary schools are applauded for taking the initiative to teach younger students how to cite accurate information from resources provided. At a young age, to have knowledge about plagiarism being a wrong method of presenting information beats having no idea about its existence. People are often encouraged to think by processing information that they acquire from various sources. In this way, they can learn much more compared to just blindly copying from others.

-Pearlyn :D-

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