Due to the development of information and communication technology (ICT), plagiarism becomes a much more serious problem in the academic community as plagiarism are easily committed with the help of ICT. In this report, my focus will be on the types of Academic Plagiarism, Academic Policy used and how plagiarism will affect the students and organization.

“What is plagiarism?” [1] In my opinion, I believed that plagiarism is the act of passing someone else's work as your own without giving credit to the original. It can also be something like having “A quotation of a sentence or two, without quotation marks and without a citation to the original author”. [2] According to the dictionary.com, plagiarism is defined as “An act or instance of …show more content…
Academic misconduct includes “any action or attempted action by a student that may result in an unfair academic advantage for oneself, or an unfair academic advantage or disadvantage for any other member or members of the academic community.” [4] Academic misconduct includes cheating, plagiarism, fabrication, deception, bribery, sabotage, professional misconduct, and impersonation. [5]

Some examples of Plagiarism in Computer Science include “Taking codes from the internet”, “Paying someone else to contribute to your work” [11] and “Self-plagiarism”. [7]

“Taking codes from the internet” for references or research purposes and submitting a computer program that uses content from other sources like the internet is considered Academic Plagiarism. There is a chance that a classmate found and use the same sources and both students get caught for Academic …show more content…
However, the reasons for doing the action is immoral. Moral worth only comes when you do something regardless of whether you like it because you know that it is your responsibility. [12]

Plagiarism will not be beneficial to the student as the whole purpose for studying is to gain knowledge.

Academic Plagiarism causes more harm not only toward the students but also the University. The purpose of studying in University is to gain knowledge. By plagiarism, the students will have a flawed knowledge of the subjects and this may affect their career in the future. When students are caught for plagiarism, it will destroy the student’s reputation and affect the University’s reputation and devalues the degrees