The Plagiarism Tendency During Covid-19 Pandemic

Simatupang, Masda Surti and Peter, Ramot and Murniarti, Erni and Male, Hendrikus and Tambunsaribu, Gunawan (2021) The Plagiarism Tendency During Covid-19 Pandemic. Turkish Journal of Computer and Mathematics Education, 12 (14). pp. 4600-4607. ISSN 1309 4653

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Abstract

During the Covid-19 pandemic, the teaching and learning process changes from offline to online. It influences university students' behavior in completing their assignments. They must access the internet for the learning activity, for instance, to search for literature, which they used to get from books in the library. They get the soft copy from the internet that tends to plagiarism action by copy-pasting. This study aims to identify the tendency of plagiarism and analyze the motive of plagiarism tendency. The methodology used in this study is a descriptive qualitative method by analyzing students' writing via Turnitin and interviewing. The subjects were UKI's students majoring in English education undertaking a Linguistics class. The results showed that most students tended to copy-paste the source for their essay writing to ease shortcuts. Those typical learning methods affected students' intention to finish their assignment instantly or fulfill their work in the last minute of due time. In conclusion, there was a tendency for university students to copy-paste caused by easy internet access and merely fulfilling their duty to submit their work atthe last minute.

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