In today revolution, it is command for us to refer to the digital sources from the internet in doing our work especially for the students. By accessing to the copyrighted materials from the internet could assisting students to generate more ideas and materials also help to stand by their standpoint. However, it is also possible for plagiarism to occur if copyright is accessing in an inappropriate way and this is what
Always, plagiarism and copyright infringement are being misconceptions. According to K.Matthew Dames (2007), the differences between copyright and plagiarism is that copyright is a set of laws and the illegal use of protected works without license or purchase, whereas, plagiarism is an action of stealing or passing off other's words or ideas without editing and crediting the sources. Certainly, this is a serious corruption of academic life.
Students will be indirectly incited of rationalize their cheating behavior and impede the youngest to be creative and impact on their ideation. From the perspective of being ethical, it has to be take into account when developing and implementing institutional learning (Chris Park, 2003). More critically, it becomes a problem in everyone but not only students where people now is accessing to the internet text without using their own critical thinking.
In my opinion, it couldn't be a problem for students to use internet sources as references where it assisting and encouraging students improve their reading and understanding skills since they uses the sources to support in their argument. However, students have to be strictly advice the appropriate way when referring to the internet materials.
Therefore, Foster (2002) outlined teachers are required to contribute students' work to services such as Turnitin.com as it is to believe that preemptive education is the most effective way to prevent plagiarism, yet ensutring that students' works are not copy paste from the internet.
References
K. Matthew Dames (2007), 'Understanding Plagiarism and How It Differs from Copyrights Infringement', Computers in Libraries, Vol. 27, pp. 3, <http://web.ebscohost.com.ezlibproxy.unisa.edu.au/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=f4ef8c8a-ea6c-49a6-bd8f-806b1bc378ac%40sessionmgr4&vid=4&hid=126>
Chris Park, 2003, 'In other People's Words: Plagiarism by University Students- Literature and Lessons', Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, Vol. 28, No. 5, <http://www.lancs.ac.uk/staff/gyaccp/caeh_28_5_02lores.pdf>
Andreal L. Foster (2002), 'Plagiarism- Detection Tool Creates Legal Quandary', Information technology, The Chronicle of Higher Education, <http://www.immagic.com/eLibrary/ARCHIVES/GENERAL/CHRON_HE/C020517F.pdf>.
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