The document discusses whether the internet is producing more copycats. It defines copycats as people who copy the ideas, work, or style of others without permission or credit. While copying has always occurred, the internet makes it much easier. A survey found that 35% of students directly copied internet content without citation. The document lists reasons for rising plagiarism and ways to reduce it, such as developing work plans, using the internet for research not replacement of thinking, enabling plagiarism detection software, and increasing parental involvement. In conclusion, copying can raise awareness but over-copying harms creativity.

1. PRESENTATION
IS INTERNET PRODUCING
COPYCATS?

2. GROUP #5
MEMBER’s NAME ROLL NUMBERS
Saffa Sahkir
Farah Riaz
Frasat Qudsia
Anmol Anwer
Seerat Ateeq
Falak Naaz Butt
Tanzila Aslam
Iqra Mughal
37
33
40
30
61
36
41
47

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

4. 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

5. 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

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

7. 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

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

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

10. 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.

11. 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 ,twiter
and many more

12. 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?

13. 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”

14. Disadvantages of plagiarism
It kills innovation and
creativity.
Students loose their
confidence.
They remain unaware of
their skills.

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 canexus
 Tutuion 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. 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.

21. Conti…
 Being a computer science student here I explain you 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 batter app then that
or adding advanced features, or whatever you did for making it
more attractive then this type of coping is good.