CREATE A CASE STUDY RELATED TO ICT Evaluation of plagiarism as a common crime among high school and university students

in the manipulation of internet resources to develop research projects.

Introduction Plagiarism can be defined as the activity of taking other people ideas or intellectual properties and make them as your own without providing the appropriate attribution, and The Internet and digital technology has greatly enhanced students' opportunities to plagiarize material effectively without being recognized; there are numerous web sites that allow students to access to thousands of research papers in only few seconds just by conducting a simple Internet search on website such as www.google.com. Therefore the convenience to get the information is enhancing plagiarism and it has become the easiest method to create a research paper, case study, story, project, articles or any other material students can produce it by copying and pasting through the website. Educators must know that there are many web sites that provide models of policies, citation guides, and suggestions to detect plagiarism and provide a penalty to this crime; however, it is the responsibility of all educators to teach and train students about the ethics of research. In addition educators must teach students how to evaluate, analyze and synthesize websites more critically to develop research skills since most students who are novice researchers do not have the background knowledge to make quotations, references and critical assessments of information. Case study Establishing a clear understanding of academic policies against plagiarism, educators should review the Internet to investigate the scope of material on the topics they will assign students to research. Educators who take time to review this material will be able to identify information that has been plagiarized. In the other hand there are some suggested websites such as Plagiarism on the Internet and the

Instructor's Guide to Plagiarism on The Internet that can be used by teachers to identify internet plagiarism EUROSAM is an organization who uses a sophisticated software to detect plagiarism, its name is iThenticate, and it is employed to ensure authenticity and protect the integrity of authors and professionals research work. The penalties that EUROSAM assign for authors who have been found with plagiarized work wont have their work published and its content will not be read and review for two years. iThenticate plagiarism detective software will be a good solution to decrease the plagiarism level between high school and university novice research student projects.

Another activity that helps students develop their paraphrasing skills is to require them to write summaries without the text in front of them. Instructors can give the students short excerpts of Internet passages to read and summarize To illustrate this model, English instructors at the Kent State University Geauga Campus provide a list of the novels, short stories, and other materials on which their students will have to write papers. The library staff then bookmarks all related web sites and gives copies of the links to the instructors. Instructors then have the opportunity to check the sites to familiarize themselves with their content. Thus, instructors have immediate access to most of the sources their students may use from the Internet. Since students are aware of this practice, most reconsider plans of plagiarizing with Internet resources.

Questions 1- What is going to be the main goal of organizations and academic institutions that implement anti-plagiarism programs to ensure research quality of the use of internet? 2- What are going to be the benefits of the authors who publish their research projects, plays or case studies on the internet? 3- How research project quality may be improved in high schools and universities by penalizing plagiarism as a crime? 4- What is going to be impact of students improvement on research skills? 5- Do you consider the anti-plagiarism virtual program; iThenticate is reliable to detect a plagiarized work?

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