What Matter is Your Own.

Who can live without internet today? even kids in ages between 2 until 11 have embraced the internet as a part of their natural environment (Demmer 2011). speaking of internet, it is very important in our daily life right now as it is consist of bunch professional works that contain of useful information. Today, people especially university students are tend to use it as their alternative source in completing their tasks. According to Montecino (1996) copyright is a form of protection provided by the laws to the authors' original work, can be available to both published and unpublished form. thus, it is necessary for students to interpret a behavior of citing the author first after they took the ideas from one work. unfortunately, most of them misinterpret by claiming it as their own works which it close to stealing and this kind of act is called plagiarism. 

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Unfortunately, 60 % of university student in Malaysia conduct this behavior (Danian 2001) and the divergence of plagiarism have gone widely. Many people believe that anything in the Internet is public domain, they thought every information that is listed there has no copyright protection. For example, girl named irvina, she is a famous indonesian blogger. her posts talk about own experience yet eventually it teaches the reader some lesson. she created her own words for the sake of her blog thus, it is so obvious when people copy her work. there was a time one person copied her work and claimed that it was hers. the original author was mad obviously. this clearly shows how the reaction of all authors when they realized we have taken their ideas without even cite them.

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In addition, it is necessary to cite and reference when you pick people's idea. to conclude, a quote by Carroll (Morgan and Hauck 2012) "being original does not mean having novel ideas before expressed by a human. it simply means doing the work by yourself." what matter is the hard work and a simple own work is more appreciated thus start to apply this term in your life. 

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Reference: 

- Danian, A 2001, Plagiarism among Malaysian Student, Volume of Interaction, viewed on June 7th 2012, <http://www.aizuddindanian.com/voi/2009/09/plagiarism-among-malaysian-students.html>.

- Demmer, D 2001, Children on the Internet, Universal Usability in Practice, viewed on June 7th 2012, <http://otal.umd.edu/UUPractice/children/>.

- Montecino, V (1996), Copyright and the Internet, Education and Technology Resources, viewed on June 7th 2012, <http://mason.gmu.edu/~montecin/copyright-internet.htm>.

- Morgan, J & Hauck, B 2012, Plagiarism: The CTRL+C, CTRL+V Boom, BBC News, viewed on June 7th 2012, <http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/mobile/magazine-12613617>.