STUDENTS AWARENESS OF PLAGIARISM IN PARAPHRASING ENGLISH TEXT
Keywords:
Paraphrasing, Plagiarism, Student’s Ability, English Text, Writing
Abstract
This study was conducted to find out the students awareness of plagiarism while they’re paraphrasing the English text. Researchers took 30 samples from private universities namely Universitas Muhammadiyah Aceh and the state university UIN Ar-Raniri Banda Aceh. This study uses questionnaire to investigate this research which contain 13 questions. The result of this study shows that more than seventy percent of the samples taken by researchers understand what paraphrase and what plagiarism are. However they still faced some problems how to avoid plagiarism in their writing. 10 percent of the students said in order to avoid plagiarism is by providing references even in their personal notes, 16,7 percent said that when using the ideas of others, it must clear who the original author was, then 33,3 percent said that to avoid plagiarism is only by writing notes in their own words and the last 40 percent of the students choose all the answers to answer all the way to avoid plagiarism.
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Schuemann, C., Bryd, P., & Reid, J. (2006). Techniques for paraphrasing. Retrieved from https://www.lib.sfu.ca/about/branches-depts/slc/writing/sources/techniques-paraphrasing
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Alice, O. & Ann Hogue (2000), Writing Academic English, Third Edition. London; Longman.
Bailey, S. (2006). Academic Writing: A Handbook for International Students, 2nd Ed. London: Routledge
Bhagat, R., & Hovy, E. (2013). What is a paraphrase? Computational Linguistics, 39(3), 463-472. doi:10.1162/COLI a 00166
Choy, S. C., & Lee, M. Y. (2012). Effects of teaching paraphrasing skills to students learning summary writing in ESL. Journal of Teaching and Learning, 8(2).
Dung, T. T. M. (2010). An investigation in paraphrasing experienced by Vietnamese students of English in academic writing. (Doctoral dissertation), Vietnam: University of Da Nang).
Escudero, I., Fuertes, N., & López, L. (2019). Paraphrasing Strategy in EFL Ecuadorian B1 Students and Implications on Reading Comprehension. English Language Teaching, 12(1), 56-66. doi:10.5539/elt.v12n1p56
Gaspar, M. & Shepherd, M. (2009). Guide to Assignment Writing and Referencing. 3rd Ed., Geelong: Deakin University.
Gay, L.R. & Diehl, P.L. (1992). Research Methods for Business and Management. New York: MacMillan Publishing Company
Hirvela, A., & Du, Q. (2013). “Why am I paraphrasing?”: Undergraduate ESL writers' engagement with source-based academic writing and reading. Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 12(2), 87-98. doi:10.1016/j.jeap.2012.11.005
Injai, R. (2015). An analysis of paraphrasing strategies employed by Thai EFL students: case study of Burapha University. (Doctoral dissertation), Burapha University. Retrieved from http://digital_collect.lib.buu.ac.th/dcms/files/54910112.pdf
Iskandar, M. (2009). Penentuan ciri-ciri plagiarisme dalam makalah ilmiah yang mereferensi sumber dalam bahasa asing yang diterjemahkan. Bina Ekonomi. 13(1)
Kamus Besar Bahasa Inggris online (2017), “Parafrasa”, diambil pada 11 Juni 2017 dari http://kbbi.web.id/parafrasa
Keck, C. (2006). The use of paraphrase in summary writing: A comparison of L1 and L2 writers. Journal of Second Language Writing, 15(4), 261-278. doi:10.1016/j.jslw.2006.09.006
Keck, C. (2014). Copying, paraphrasing, and academic writing development: A re-examination of L1 and L2 summarization practices. Journal of Second Language Writing, 25, 4-22. doi:10.1016/j.jslw.2014.05.005
Marzec-Stawiarska, M. (2019). A Search for Paraphrasing and Plagiarism Avoidance Strategies in the Context of Writing from Sources in a Foreign Language. Rethinking directions in language learning and teaching at university level, 115. doi: 10.14705/rpnet.2019.31.894
Meteer, M., & Shaked, V. (1988, August). Strategies for effective paraphrasing. In Proceedings of the 12th conference on Computational linguistics-Volume 2 (pp. 431-436). Association for Computational Linguistics.
Pecorari, D. (2003). Good and original: Plagiarism and patchwriting in academic second-language writing. Journal of Second Language Writing, 12, 317–345. doi:10.1016/j.jslw.2003.08.004
Perin, D. & Hare, R. (2010). A contextualized reading writing intervention for community college students. Community College Research Center Brief. 44. 1-4
Rogerson, A. M. & McCarthy, G. (2017). Using internet based paraphrasing tools: Original work, patchwriting or facilitated plagiarism?. International Journal for Educational Integrity, 13(1), 2. doi:10.1007/s40979-016-0013-y
Schuemann, C., Bryd, P., & Reid, J. (2006). Techniques for paraphrasing. Retrieved from https://www.lib.sfu.ca/about/branches-depts/slc/writing/sources/techniques-paraphrasing
Shi, L. (2004). Textual borrowing in second-language writing. Written communication, 21(2), 171-200. doi: 10.1177/0741088303262846
Sun, Y. C. (2009). Using a two-tier test in examining Taiwan graduate students’ perspectives on paraphrasing strategies. Asia Pacific Education Review, 10(3), 399-408. doi:10.1007/s12564-009-9035-y
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2019-11-30
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Sarair, Inas Astila, & Yuniarti. (2019). STUDENTS AWARENESS OF PLAGIARISM IN PARAPHRASING ENGLISH TEXT. Getsempena English Education Journal , 6(2), 258-266. https://doi.org/10.46244/geej.v6i2.882
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