Abstract
The current study was designed to investigate the types of plagiarism that appear in EFL students’ theses at Ar-Raniry State Islamic University, Indonesia. It sought to examine the plagiarism level, and investigate the triggering factors encouraging these EFL students of the 2019 batch to plagiarize. This study used a qualitative method with a case study approach. The participants in this study were ten EFL students of the 2019 batch and their theses. The participants were randomly selected. The data collection was carried out using two research instruments, namely document analysis, and interview. The researcher analyzed the student's thesis using Plagiarism Checker X. The results of the document analysis showed that there were two types of plagiarism detected in the student's thesis, namely word for word and mosaic plagiarism. Second, the researcher found that the plagiarism level of the 2019 batch English students' thesis of UIN Ar-Raniry was at the low-level plagiarism category, which can be observed from the result of the similarity index. The level of plagiarism found in these theses was less than 30%, still at an acceptable level as stipulated by the university regulation. Meanwhile, the result of the interview showed that all participants know what plagiarism is and they think that plagiarism is a negative conduct. Several factors influences EFL English students to plagiarize, such as poor time management, laziness, poor paraphrasing skills, affordable internet access, and running out of ideas.
Highlights
The academic world is always associated with scientific research, papers, and research reports commonly called scientific work
Based on the results of document analysis using the Plagiarism Checker X software, the researcher found two types of plagiarism committed by the students, namely word for word plagiarism and mosaic plagiarism
The current study was designed to investigate the types of plagiarism and the level of plagiarism that appear in the 2019 batch English students' theses of UIN ArRaniry, and the triggering factors encouraging these students to commit plagiarism
Summary
The academic world is always associated with scientific research, papers, and research reports commonly called scientific work. Researchers have shown increasing trends in students' dishonesty in academic contexts. One form of academic dishonesty is plagiarism. When an author uses the written work of other people and claims it as his own, especially when the author did not quote the sentence properly, it is called plagiarism, which is indicated as an act of deception accompanied by theft and lies (Patra, 2017). Ellis, Zucker, and Randall (2018) explain that plagiarism is the practice of "presenting someone else's words or ideas as your own without appropriate attribution" Plagiarism is a crime in the world of education, an act that deserves heavy sanctions for the perpetrators
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