Why do students plagiarise?
Some of the reasons for plagiarising are covered above but students may have more personal reasons such as: being unaware that theyre plagiarising lacking knowledge and understanding of the subject poor time management skills feeling that the subject is unimportant believing that plagiarism isnt serious feeling pressurised due to over-assessment poor teaching. The most common reason given by students is ignorance about plagiarism that they were unclear about the plagiarism policy and, therefore, unaware that they were doing anything wrong. A common misunderstanding among students relates to paraphrased material. Many students do not realise that paraphrased material should be attributed to the original author in the same manner as a direct quotation. Some students do not consider plagiarism a serious offence since it does not (in their view) harm other students. Research has shown that students consider cheating in an examination to be much more serious than plagiarising coursework eve
