Plagiarism in Mexican Engineering Students
International Journal of Emerging Trends in Science and Technology,
Vol. 4 No. 12 (2017),
1 December 2017
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Page 6366-6368
The present work investigates the index of plagiarism in dissertations in the field of engineering at
an undergraduate level in a higher education institution in Mexico. Through the on-line program
SafeAssign, we analyzed 243 college dissertations and found evidence of plagiarism half of them.
Ethical and teaching implications are analyzed. It is recommended to reduce the plagiarism,
strategies such as reducing the extension of works, the systematic use of programs to screen for
originality and to stress the importance of it originality in academic work