Identifying Plagiarism In Literature Review Of Students’ Thesis (A Study At English Language Education Department of Ar-Raniry State Islamic University)

Plagiarism is an act of cheating by stealing someone's idea or work without acknowledging the origin of the idea or work and considering it as their own. The literature review is an important part contained in chapter 2 in writing a scientific paper, especially theses. In this section, there are various definitions or theories related to the research topic. Due to the many theories or definitions from experts, students must quote the theory or definition by direct quote or indirect quote and accompanied by citation and reference to avoid plagiarism. However, plagiarism is unavoidable, because plagiarism can occur intentionally or unintentionally. Based on this case, the researcher wants to identify plagiarism in the literature review of students’ thesis. Specifically, the author wants to identify the type of plagiarism and determine the dominant plagiarism types committed by students in the literature review of students' thesis of the English Education Department of Ar-Raniry State Islamic University. This research used a qualitative research method with a content analysis approach. The researcher used 10 literature reviews of students’ theses as research documents would be analyzed. In 10 literature reviews, there were 5 types of plagiarism committed by students, including re-tweets, word switch plagiarism, 404 Error, Word for word plagiarism, and clones. From the five types included, the most dominant one that students committed was Retweet, and the type that students rarely committed was Clone. This indicated that students were aware that citing word-for-word without including citation and reference is an act of plagiarism. Therefore, students paraphrase more often, but the result of the paraphrases was still failed because the paraphrase sentences were still similar to the source.