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A C K N O W L E D G E M E N T
Completing this research w a s a challenging project for us. First of all, w e would like to thank God Almighty without blessing w e will not have successfully completed this study.
Fortunately w e had the help of many parties that made this project less difficult. Mdm. Dg.
Siti Noor Saufidah Binti A g Mohd Saufi kept us motivated on course during all those moment things w e r e not going a s planned. W e thank her from bottom of our hearts for being there in our moments of need.
Our Supervisor, Sir Mohammed R a h e z z a l S h a h Bin Abdul Karim deserves a special mention here. He w a s insistent on the meetings and dateline which w e did not quite appreciate then. But looking back, his toughness made us work harder and for that w e will always be grateful.
I would like to thank the lecturer who taught us many things about research but did not tell that it would be this difficult. W e learned a valuable lesson about research in action.
Things do not go a s expected or planned. Y o u have to make adjustments but these adjustments must be justified or qualified.
W e also would like to thanks our parents that support us to do this research and support our financial related to the all spending to complete this research. W e would like to thanks our friends that help to taught us many things that related to the research and support us during our up and down.
Nur Amira Binti Ramli (2014887114)
Nurul Hidayah Binti Z a m Raini (2014634908 Bachelor of Administrative Science (Hons.)
Faculty of Administrative Science & Policy Studies Universities Teknologi M A R A (UiTM), S a b a h
C O N T E N T S P A G E F O R R E S E A R C H R E P O R T
C O N T E N T
C H A P T E R 1 : I N T R O D U C T I O N
1.1 Introduction 1-3 1.2 Problem Statement 3-5
1.3 R e s e a r c h Objectives 5 1.3 R e s e a r c h Question 5 1.4 S c o p e of Study 6 1.5 Significance of the Study 6-7
1.6 Definition of T e r m s and Concept 8-9 C H A P T E R 2 : L I T E R A T U R E A N D C O N C E P T U A L F R A M E W O R K
2.0 Introduction 10 2.1 Plagiarism 10-12 2.2 Learning aid 12-16 2.3 Turnitin a w a r e n e s s
2 . 3 . 1 . A g e 16-17 2.3.2 C o u r s e s 17-18 2.4 U s e r friendly 18-20 2.5 Conceptual Framework 21-22
C H A P T E R 3 : R E S E A R C H M E T H O D
3.0 Introduction 2 3 3.1 R e s e a r c h Design 23-24 3.2 Data Collection 24 3.3 Unit of Analysis 2 5 3.4 S a m p l e S i z e 25-27 3.5 Sampling Technique 2 7
3.6 S o u r c e s of Data 27-28 3.7 Measurement 28-29 3.8 Data Analysis 30
C H A P T E R 4 : F I N D I N G 4.0 Introduction
4.1 Reliability Analysis 31-32 4.2 Respondent Profile 32-34 4.3 R e s p o n s e s of Significances of Turnitin towards Plagiarism 35-39
Among Students
4.4 T h e Relationship of Significances of Turnitin T o w a r d s 4 0 Plagiarism Among Students
4.5 T h e Major Significances of Turnitin 41-42
4.6 Students Perceptions T o w a r d s Turnitin 42-43 C H A P T E R 5 : D I S C U S S I O N A N D C O N C L U S I O N
5.1 Implication of Study 44-45 5.2 Recommendation
5.2.1 Recommendation from Respondent 46 5.2.2 Recommendation for Future R e s e a r c h e r 4 7
5.3 Limitation 48-49 5.4 Conclusion 50-51
R E F E R E N C E S A P P E N D I C E S
S I G N I F I C A N C E S O F T U R N I T I N T O W A R D S P L A G I A R I S M A M O N G S T U D E N T S IN UITM K O T A K I N A B A L U
C H A P T E R ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 I n t r o d u c t i o n
The issues of plagiarism is common among students. They tend to take a short cuts or alternatives in completing their assignments and in producing a good writing by plagiarize. There are various factors that can contribute to this behavior i.e. demographic, social and technological factors. According to Cromwell, 2006; McMurty, 2001, since the inception of the World Wide Web, plagiarism is a problem that has hit the education world even harder. It has become easier for students to copy and paste material into their assignments or reports and submit it for grading as their original work because there is so much information readily available in electronic form from the internet. In the past, for students to plagiarize, they had to take time to write down material from books, but with the Internet, they just cut and paste into their work within a short of period of time
Area of plagiarism in this study is college plagiarism which is essentially different from general definition of plagiarism that involved a plagiarism in workplace, artistic, musical and mechanical. College plagiarism is more like stealing the words without appropriate citation. College plagiarism is does not involved financial losses thus it is called as an in-house college situation (Harris, W., 2007). One of the alternative in reducing plagiarism issue is by the introduction of Turnitin website. Turnitin is the leading originality checking and plagiarism prevention service used by millions of students and faculty, and thousands of institutions worldwide. Turnitin encourages best practices for using and
citing other people's written material. The service offers a complete web-based service to
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