Critical Issues of Scientific Writing

Abstract

This study discusses the contemporary issues that usually take place in the process of scientific writing. This paper focuses on student's perception towards scientific writing and how information technology that gives great contribution to bad behavior which is plagiarism, and how to reduce it.The purpose of writing this article is to reveal one of the factors causing the weakening of students' writing ability and possible solutions that can be applied based on the findings in this study. The method used is descriptive qualitative by digging the data using survey instrument at 35 final level student respondents from several public and private universities in Indonesia. It is very confusing to see more of students to copy paste from the internet in writing their tasks. This is the result of this research, the necessary workshop training and advice from lecturse or tutors to help students and reducing plagiarisme.