Under Graduate Students’ Sufficient Awareness on Plagiarism for Composing Academic Writing

Abstract Plagiarism still becomes a big deal to be handled and solved by education institutions. Plagiarism still occurs especially in students’ academic writing, such as; English texts, papers, and proposals. Regarding to this phenomenon, IAI Al Muhammad Cepu takes an action and commits the regulation for students at semester six to prevent plagiarism. Based on the facts explained above, this study was conducted to find out the students’ sufficient awareness on plagiarism for composing their academic writing. The findings will be beneficial for IAI Al Muhammad Cepu and many other universities to commit the regulation how to avoid and prevent plagiarism, especially when the students are demanded to compose their own academic writing. The writers used qualitative method in which questionnaire and interview as the instruments. 40 participants filled the questionnaires, and 10 participants involved in the interview section were chosen randomly from 6 departments. From the findings showed, it can be concluded that most of the students involved in this study already understand and get deep understanding on plagiarism. During semester six, students have more chance to practice paraphrasing and other ways to prevent plagiarism. Also, the institution already set up ways, regulation, and obligation to prevent plagiarism which may occurs in students’ academic writing. Key Words: Awareness, Plagiarism, Academic Writing