A presentation on Internet Producing Copycats

1. A PRESENTATION
INTERNET PRODUCING
COPYCATS
ON
Presented by-
Saurav Roy

2. Do you think is it a copycat???
Talking tom

3. VIEWS ABOUT COPYCATS
Not all the thieves lurk in dark alleys and parks. Some sit
with their faces lit by the glow of their computer monitors,
copying, pasting and printing

4. Conti…
Plagiarism, however
is not laughing
material.

5.  COPYCATS
A person who does the same
thing as someone else.
A person who adopts the behavior,
style etc. of someone else.
This term is also known as
Plagiarism:
To use someone else’s work without
permission or giving credit

6. Conti….
An old educational joke says that if a student consults one
book for an assignment. That’s plagiarism but if it’s two books,
that’s research

7. Is Internet producing copycats?
Do you agree?
On behalf of my personal
experience, I admit that I’m
the copycat, do you?

8. TYPES OF COPYCATS
We have categorized copycats in two types:
 Foolish copycats
 Smart copycats

9. ROLE OF INTERNET
 Copying has always been around, like in past people copy
text from a book laboriously but rise of computers and
access of internet have made plagiarism so easy.
 Pre-papered essays, assignments are available on internet
students not even read that. They just copy it.

10. Conti…
Another case is that students
take picture of someone else’s
work and share them with each
other using social media like on
FB, what’s app ,twitter and many
more

11. Conti…
Internet is growing in leaps and bounds and its means
content is too being generated in large volume.
But hang on, is content being generated or is it being
reproduced?

12. Survey
160 students surveyed in Pennsylvania schools
during 2004-2005 school year:
 35% “ directly copied and pasted material into an
assignments, without citation”
 46% of those “ considered it plagiarism or
cheating”

13. Disadvantages of Plagiarism
It kills innovation and creativity.
Students loose their confidence.
They remain unaware of their skills.

14. Statistics:

15. Conti..
 They become dependent on internet.
 If teacher assign them a difficult topic, they
don’t think about it, discuss it with friends and
don’t understand it deeply.

16. Reasons for rise in plagiarism
 Pressure to succeed.
 Lack of training since school of creative writing.
 Ignorance by parents and teachers.
 Lack of skill of time management.
 Solved assignments available on net and free of cost.
 Desire to have idealistic body shape, dresses,
hairstyles, jewelry etc. like celebrities.

17.  How to control it.?
Develop a good academic work plan.
To use internet as an option not
instead of your brain.
Guide them without
collaborating.
Teacher should be able to detect
copied contents.

18. Conti…
 Parental involvement:
 Help students at early age to organize and plan their work,
as to be panic at last minute can cause problems.
 Tell importance of self writing

19. Conti…
 Anti-plagiarism or detection software should be launched in
institutions like
 Copy Catch Gold from copycatchgold.com
 Eve2 from Conexus.
 Tution being used in oxford and more than 100 institutions
of HE.
 It’s the first step for students to submit their own work not to
label them as plagiarist.

20. A Quote by Ralph Johnson :

21.  CONCLUSION
 Copying is not always bad.
 It raises awareness on a global level.
 Being a copy cat is good to some extent if it is just
for seeking information or raising your knowledge
but it can also spoil your creative abilities.

22. Conti…
Inspite of not being a computer science student I explain you that how it
is advantageous for you and how it is harmful.
 If you are coping an app’s coding to register this app with your own
name having same features. It is not coping, I’ll give it the name of
stealing in a sense.
 But if you copied the code for just making better app then that or
adding advanced features, or whatever you did for making it more
attractive then this type of coping is good.