Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen
This time I will deliver a speech about
plagiarism
What comes to your mind when I mention the
word plagiarism? Will you think about the kind of action of plagiarism or will you think
about the definition about plagiarism
itself? Yes, both are the same and will lead to one
word, namely plagiarism.
Plagiarism is a form of crime that mimics
in full or in part the work of another person without mentioning the source,
which will have an impact on the original writer. Why do I classify plagiarism
in the form of crime? Because the perpetrators of plagiarism have brought harm
to the original author by violating the copyright of his work and crime itself is a form of action
that harms others, physical and non-physical.
If you explore the reason why some people
will choose this shortcut, we will be faced with many possibilities and the
main possibility is that there is no creative thinking in expressing or
creating a new work.
Lately, many social media users want to
look attractive and cool by sharing their moments on their social media
accounts, not infrequently they also add aphorisms and edit photos on their
photos to enhance the appearance of photos, but not everyone has the same level
of creativity to produce an interesting work and for that it is not uncommon to
find similarities with one photo with another that is different, this is also
included in the form of plagiarism. Because if you observe recently that there
is a function shift from the actual social media, social media is one of the
ways to be able to connect with friends from different regions now become a
means to gain popularity by becoming a celebrity in social media.
To get popularity from social media, one of
the conditions that must be fulfilled is to get a lot of likes and following,
and to get it all they have to prepare an interesting and new work that can be
an item sold to gain that popularity.
Not only on social media, in the world of
education that highly upholds a scientific thought can not be separated from
the influence of plagiarism offered. As an example in writing, writing is one
of the many scientific activities carried out by people who are in the world of
education such as when writing scientific reports, research proposals and even
doing final assignments in lectures which are all done by playing words in
writing. Scientific writings will be very uneducated if obtained from the
results of plagiarism, will be questioned the authenticity and validity of the
data contained in the writing that will have an impact on doubts and distrust
of the results of the writing.
With the presence of such a clear effect, there
are still many students and teachers who still carry out this plagiarism.
Though it would be very embarrassing if the perpetrators of plagiarism were
revealed and crossed out from certain educational institutions.
One example of this again is the appeal not
to do plagiarism when Gunadarma University students in the third year will conduct a
required scientific research campus to fulfill one of the graduation
requirements. The purpose of scientific research conducted by students in this
third year is to have the ability to think scientifically so that in the future it can
solve complex problems easily and in organized thinking, this scientific
research assignment is the first major assignment given by the campus before
they get the assignment the real final is the preparation of final scientific
research to achieve graduation at this university level in the fourth year
later.
In the procedure for preparing this
scientific research report, students are faced with new problems, namely, they
must determine the topic of the problem they will solve in this study, and this
is not an easy matter. Many students are still confused about what they want to
do for scientific research so they choose to take shortcuts to do plagiarism,
which is to imitate the topic of the problem that has been discussed before by
students who have graduated without mentioning the source.
Not only on the topic of the problem,
plagiarism can also be done by the perpetrator to imitate the results of
research, this will be easy if the topic of the problem with each other is the
same. Again, in the world of education it is unfortunate if this good
opportunity which aims to hone critical and scientific thinking skills is
wasted by committing a crime called plagiarism, the
task of writing this scientific research report is real evidence in three years
what students have learned and can be one measure in the success of learning.
Because of the very
serious impact of this form of plagiarism crime, the government feels that it
is necessary to draft a statutory regulation which specifically discusses
plagiarism, until finally the government regulation number 28 of 2014 which
regulates copyright, finally states that rights copyright is intellectual
property that has a strategic role, with the advancement of the development of
technology, language and literature so that it requires an increase in
copyright protection for the creator, with the existence of legitimate laws and
regulations so that the punishment for the perpetrators of infringing
plagiarism is clear.
Then how can we freely
quote someone else's work without being called plagiarism? The way is to
include the source of information that we get from the creator, so the things
we do are not copying the work of others, but we only quote.
So as a person who
understands legislation and at the same time as a student, I personally urge
the audience not to commit invisible crime that can hurt and harm other people
called plagiarism.
That's enough of me,
sorry if there are words that are not pleasing.
Good afternoon