Plagiarism in academics has become a pressing problem in many countries today. What are the causes of this problem? What are some possible solutions?

Writing a thesis and dissertation are not uncommon tasks of one's academic career,

however

, sometimes

students

being overwhelmed by multiple efforts followed by tight deadlines, forces them to immediately borrow the texts from other's work. In

this

essay, I will not only explain the reasons behind the major problem but

also

provide some potential solutions for the same. On one hand,

students

studying any sort of course right from graduation to doctorates, are particularly occupied with multiple concurrent exercises. Considering university

students

pursuing computer engineering,

for instance

, they have to prepare for campus interviews which demand technical skillset like Java and relevant frameworks, in spite of the

students

have to submit a thesis for their final year project parallel.

As a result

, in order to save time, a reference from pre-existing projects are directly copied.

Furthermore

, few

students

tend to borrow somebody else's work just out of their laziness.

This

leading universities to face the problem of

plagiarism

more often.

On the other hand

, it is critical to curbing the frequent

cases

of

plagiarism

simply because it is a crucial part of the ongoing curriculum. The

first

and foremost solution could be, reducing the number of parallel responsibilities the scholars are experiencing. Like there could be a defined interval of few months in which

students

can have a focussed time to work on their research and dissertations. The coinciding tasks like interviews could be postponed to a later stage.

In addition

to that, there are myriad tools online that help to detect the percentage of foreign stuff borrowed in someone'sthesis;

this

could be allowed to a certain extent, but for extreme

plagiarism

like more than 70%,

students

should be seriously penalised. The more

cases

are detected and punished, the more it will induce an instil fear of coping stuff among the aspirants. To recapitulate,

Plagiarism

is being an increasing problem, if it exceeds beyond a certain limit in some

cases

,

then

it becomes important to be more strict,

thus

using certain tools to detect it, along with appropriate punishment could be one of the solutions to stop potential offensive

cases

in future.