PROPOSAL PRESENTATION

Name Student ID

Hamizah Binti Zulkifli 2014895392

Ida Ratnawati Binti Abdul Rahman 2014802152

Nur Erra Fatihah Binti Mudah Bistari 2014822114

Yusuf Bin Adenan 2014423346

GROUP MEMBERS:

Introduction• Title: The study of factors that lead to plagiarism among students

in Uitm Kota Samarahan.

• Problem statement: According to Derby (2008), plagiarism issue are closely related with the academic performance on university students due to the availability of internet. Another research had established by Scanlon (2013) proved that plagiarism among college students is due to lack of competencies in writing skills. Apart from that, majority of respondent said plagiarism also caused by time management and attitude of the students itself. However, there is a limited study that focus on factors of plagiarisms among student in Uitm Kota Samarahan.

Significance of the study.

Why the study is important?

1.This study is useful to create the understanding regarding the factors of plagiarism in the context of academic work.

Contributions of the study

Public

- This study contribute knowledge and can create awareness about the plagiarism to the public.

Institutions

This study indicates about plagiarism can affect the institutions reputation.

Student

This study help the students to aware about the plagiarism is a form of academic misconduct.

Future Researches

This study can be a useful reference materials for future researches.

Purpose of study

Statement of Purpose:

The purpose of this study is to identify the factors that lead to plagiarism among students in Uitm Kota Samarahan. This issue is strongly link with the students in university level. Toward the end, this study will show the factors of plagiarism that specifically among student in UiTM Kota Samarahan.

Purpose of study

Objectives To identify the factors that lead to plagiarism among students in UiTM

Kota Samarahan

To find out the relationship between students and plagiarism

To determine the perception and attitudes of students toward plagiarism

Purpose of study

Research Questions What are the major factors that contribute to plagiarism among

students in UiTM Kota Samarahan?

What is plagiarism in academic perspective?

What are the perception and attitude of student toward plagiarism?

Scope Of The Study The coverage of research

This study focuses on the main factors that contribute to plagiarism among students in

UiTM Kota Samarahan .

The research will be conducted in 4 months

The students in Uitm Kota Samarahan will be randomly selected to become the

respondents for this study.

The data are obtained from questionnaire

A set of question was given to each students which the respondents will have to answer

accordingly.

Scope Of the Study

Few limitations was recognised for this research. Quantitative data collected through questionnaire did not show in depth information

needed for this research. Compared to interviews, the depth of raw data collected from

questionnaires are often inadequate.

The respondents selected is only from UiTM Samarahan and the results of this findings

should not be taken generally to represent whole students from other institutions.

Scope Of the Study Variable: This study will be conducted by using the ‘plagiarism’ as the dependent

variable and was measured with the independent variables which includes time management, lack of writing skills, availability of internet and the institution policy.

Availability of internet

Lack of writing skills

Time management

Institution policy

Plagiarism

INDEPENDENT VARIABLE

DEPENDENT VARIABLE

Methodology

The data was collected from questionnaire. Questionnaire is an example primary sources of data.

Questionnaire are design with questions that related to this study and it was distributed randomly to 50 students in Uitm Kota Samarahan.

Apart from that, the data from questionnaire were generated through SPSS version 21 application to analyse the data.