PLAGIARISM IN PROPOSAL WRITING COURSE AT UIN SUNAN AMPEL ENGLISH EDUCATION DEPARTMENT SURABAYA

Plagiarism in higher education has become a trending topic in every country. Plagiarism has a big consequence for one’s career development and for a quality of education in a nation. In this research, the researcher selected students of English Education Program as the subject of study. Through the research, the researcher answers two research questions, such as (1) what typical of plagiarism appears in students’ working paper of research proposal writing course at UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya?; and (2) what major factors cause the emergence of students’ plagiarism in their research proposal writing working paper?. In order to answer the question, the researcher conducted document review in forms of students’ research proposal and the researcher also conducted in-depth interview to uncover reasons of students committing plagiarism. Despite this research makes use quantitative and qualitative data, the position of qualitative data is more dominant. The quantitative data is used to support qualitative data analysis. The results of study shows that from 37 respondents it is found mosaic plagiarism (70.27%) and inadequate paraphrase (67.57%) as the kinds of plagiarism which are commonly appears in students’ proposal writings. For the antecedents of plagiarism, it is found that bad-time management (56.76%), lack comprehension to the task (56.76%), laziness (54.05%), and the ease of access to the internet (54.05%) also becomes dominant factors. It needs to inform that several types of plagiarism and some different antecedents appeared in a respondent at the same time. Qualitative analysis from in-depth interview shows that bad-time management, lack comprehension to the task, laziness, and the ease of access to internet materials are commonly found in the “fast and easy plagiarism”, such as verbatim, mosaic, and inadequate paraphrase plagiarism. Also, instructor’s slack attention and students’ weak capacity in writing are often the cause of imperfect students’ working paper. Therefore, for some points, their works are also considered as plagiarism.