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Marcelle (Lecturer): Often the reason for plagiarism is not so much that students want
to cheat; it’s just simply that students don’t know what the expectations are of
them when they are quoting a particular source, an academic source.
Warren (Postgrad Tutor): If you have taken information from somewhere, from someone else’s
work, you need to reference that correctly, whether it’s a direct quote or whether your
just using information someone else has presented.
Philip (School Leaver): Plagiarising is copying someone else’s work at the simplest level
and I don’t understand why you would want to do it. It wouldn’t make sense, you’re
here, and you’ve learnt it. If you haven’t learnt it, you might as well be honest and
say “hey I need an extension, I need some help.”
Alice (Postgraduate student): It’s just about making sure that the work that you are
claiming is your own, is your own and not stealing somebody else’s ideas.
Marcelle (Lecturer): Often students don’t feel confident enough in writing in their
own voice and they feel that, by using someone else’s words that appear to be far more
sophisticated, that it is actually going to give them a better grade or it’s going to
make the student sound far more intelligent than what they really are but I guess what
students need to realise is lecturers and academics are far more happy when they are
reading their own voice, with all its spelling errors, with all its problems in grammar (though
we would hope that you would go and see someone.) But we, as a lecturer, I take, I am far
more happier when I see that a student has had a go and has really, really thought about
their own reflection on a particular area that they write about.
Philip (School Leaver): It’s your argument, it’s your essay, it’s never someone else’s
and you can’t reply on other peoples work to get you through.
Warren (Postgrad Tutor): If you’re copying from another student or you’re coping of
the Internet then you are not really learning anything you’re just presenting something
that you’ve seen somewhere else.
Yasuko (Mature Age Student): Sometimes I feel like “I want to do a copy and paste,
or maybe this website. No - I wouldn’t be able to find out,” so maybe I can do
it but still it's not my work - so that means - I'm not - its not my work, so I did not
want to do it.
Philip (School Leaver): If you are using someone else’s work just reference it, it’s not
a crime at all, everyone does it, you’re lecturers do it when they write books. As
for copying someone else’s work flat out, they are always going to catch you, it’s
just not worth the risk.