Perceptions of Academic Staff on Causes of Plagiarism in Project Writing Among Undergraduate in Southwest Nigeria
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2020
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Despite knowledge and awareness of plagiarism among undergraduates through the teaching of related
compulsory university course for all students as well as teaching of research methodology in various field in Nigeria
universities, final year students sill found plagiarized while writing their research work. It was based on the above, that this
study was design to explore the perception of the academic in Southwest Nigeria on the causes of plagiarism among final year
undergraduates while writing their research project. The study makes use of descriptive survey research design of expo factor
type where eighteen universities were selected with a total sample of 1,800. Data were collected through questionnaire and
analysed using both the descriptive and quantitative analysis. The findings indicated among others that laziness, lack of
knowledge about plagiarism, lack of experience among students in producing source-based writing and lack of adequate skill
to write final year project were some of the perceived causes of plagiarism in project writing. Moreso, incompetent graduate,
injustices in grading student’s projects were some of the effect of plagiarism. Similarly, awareness campaign and theuse of
plagiarism checker among others were some of the perceived measured that can be adopted in solving the menace of
plagiarism among students.