Nowadays, information is available at fingertips and can be accessed easily with the help internet. As a result, plagiarism in academics is rising at an alarming rate in many countries and become a major problem for universities and other educational institutes. This essay shall look at some causes as well as appropriate solutions of this phenomenon.
The causes of plagiarism in academics are multi-fold. Firstly, students copy the work of others without consent because they want to compete with fellow classmates. They want to stay at the top position in their class. Secondly, all universities have deadlines for submitting the work. Hence, students have no option left and they steal the work or ideas of others. If they do not choose this way than they might have to loose the marks or credits of the subject. Finally, plagiarism leads to the loss of creativity. Students find the required work on the internet and because of that they will not try to create their own content and work.
There are many solutions to prevent plagiarism in academics. Universities can adapt the latest available technologies and software to detect the copied or stolen work of students. Moreover, based on detection universities can set criteria according to the requirements. For instance, universities can set that more than 90% of work must be plagiarism free in order to get marks or credits. However, if a student caught in stealing other’s work, then the student has to face strict punishments decided by university. Secondly, Institutes can encourage students to submit their original work by being liberal in deadlines of submitting work.
In conclusion, plagiarism can impact the creativity of students and a student might become habitual of it. Hence, universities should implement strict measures with help of various software and encourage the students to submit their own work.