Task for 8^th meeting

Expository Text

Topic “ Explain why students do copy-Paste’’

Copy-Paste Habit

The students are smart and well-educated intellectual. But Lately I see there is a tendency of the students in the making of paper with the easy way to download (download) materials from the internet through the website related to topic searched, then copy and paste them into Microsoft word.

For college students the habit of copying and pasting no longer be something unfamiliar. For now, the habit of copying and pasting has become the only shortcut to doing the coursework without much thinking. Rapid technological developments by providing all the convenience and openness to the widest information is the cause of perpetuation the habit of copying and pasting. Copy and paste practice among students generally are common. Especially when they do the tasks ahead of Mid-Semester Exam (UTS) or Final Examination (UAS).

For students, copy and paste is an alternative way to do an assignment without a lot of thinking, especially if the task is getting closer to the time limit specified. For that reason, copy and paste can be said is the easiest way to accomplish responsibilities.

Laziness, lack of self-confidence, and the misappropriation technology is the cause of the perpetuation copying and pasting habits among students. Slacker is a human trait that is owned by all the people, not least for the students. Students sometimes feel fed up with piling tasks given. In a state of tired and bored undeniable if they want everything practical and instant. This is then makes the students choose a shortcut by copying and pasting.

The lack a strong sense of confidence becomes an underlying thing for someone to do a copy paste. Unreadiness a person in making a task that caused it can happen. The fear of such things given task cannot be resolved in time, cannot work as it should, and the inability to develop critical thinking and way of thinking is the main reason students do copy and paste.

However, the ease and openness of the Internet access is then abused by students. Without thinking, students often do copy and paste without referring to the copy of the reference. Even sometimes students also collect assignments from the copy paste without editing first.

According to me copy-paste habits can have a negative impact on the offender's own self. This can lead to dependence on others so that it will 'shrink' independence, accustomed to instant things so lazy effort, blunting the ability thinking, not capable to find solutions to the problems, passive in the work, which is not much increased insight and perhaps still much more. So it has more of the negative side than the positive side. Especially for students who are currently in the stage of 'search for identity', if from the beginning has been familiarized with the instant and delish live alone, imagine what would happen later in the future.

Considering student as an educated intellectual, the habit of copying and pasting should not be done, because as a learned habit of copy and paste is a form of deception that indirectly affect our intellectual quality. Students who had been required to develop a science by issuing ideas, critical thinking, must now be passive when facing a problem and tend to take shortcuts in practice just to complete the responsibilities.