Electronic policing refers to the cases or crimes which are reported through online resources. Police do not need to investigate them directly. Electronic policing's critical purpose is to provide an effective and efficient service to citizens and control the crime rate as much as possible. One of the best electronic policing includes anti-plagiarism software used to verify original content. This software detects the copy-paste work in any document as it is a crime to steal someone's writings.
It is a big argument whether students should
check their work by anti-plagiarism software and whether it is an effective
source to highlight the already published work. It is beneficial for students
to avoid anti-plagiarism software and follow electronic policing in writing and
publishing work.
To
support this statement, there are three arguments highlighted;
Firstly, anti-plagiarism software sometimes does not work with authenticity. It doesn't decrease the importance of electronic policing; rather, some software may be unofficial to detect plagiarism in writing. To publish the work, it is the individual's responsibility that he/she must avoid copy-paste strategy or steal content. Electronic policing sometimes has strict rules and regulations that can lead to more complications for a student. As there is so much anti-plagiarism software, so some of them do not give reliable detection results.
This leads to the wrong
information sometimes. To avoid all this haphazard, better not to trust such
software and work for original content. Electronic policing is made to decrease
such stolen publications, but it cannot ensure a student's bright future.
Moreover, unauthenticated work has the worst impact on the academic or educational
carrier of a student's life. It costs so high sometimes to buy original
anti-plagiarism software (Bruton, 2016).
Secondly,
students need to practice writing with proper researches and reading material.
If they use anti-plagiarism software after completing every task, they would
not realize what they learn or explore. Plagiarized work is only a waste of
time, and more than this, to check that plagiarism, there is also the wastage
of financial resources. Such students cannot explore or idealize the concepts
from other writings. Their analysis level would remain zero after doing so
much. Bibliography and citations and critical thinking necessary for a student
would remain unknown in copy-paste works (Suseela, 2016).
Thirdly, using anti-plagiarism software creates a sense of guilt in students. They know that they are committing a crime by stealing someone's work. Teachers who tell their students to use anti-plagiarism software before submitting work are demolishing students' confidence. It shows that they do not trust their students or their internal abilities. Moreover, when students are threatened with punishment, it further demoralizes them. So it is better to guide them not to plagiarize their work. There would be no question of using anti-plagiarism software when strict electronic policing is applied. It is on behalf of both teachers and students to avoid such software and adopt sensible policies (Kolhar, 2020).
There is a counter-argument also to reject the above three arguments. Electronic policing, anyways, is made for decreasing the online crime rates. Their importance and value cannot be ignored at any cost. Students do a lot of researches and exploration, but they sometimes cannot innovate everything without help. Already published documents give an idea or concept to be derived further. There is a deduction strategy followed in most of the research studies on the global level. The already existing data helps a lot in new researches.
Electronic
policing is there for the indication of complete stolen work. It is illegal and
unethical at the same time. However, it is impossible to develop new research
without taking help from old research.
There
are rules and regulations also in the research field. In some countries, there
is 9% of plagiarism allowed in the research work. In other countries, there is
1% high or low from 9%. However, the concept is that anti-plagiarism software
only helps in easy publications of work. They are not always there to
demoralize the internal skills or abilities of the students.
To conclude, electronic policing has great importance in decreasing the crime rates that police are not directly dealt with. Anti-plagiarism software also works as an electronic policing in the publication of original writings. There are many arguments against the use of this electronic policing and its impact on students' educational careers. However, the counter-argument shows that such policies are not always to create a bad impact. It helps in removing the already used material and only publish the original content. It needs to be followed legally, as well as morally.
