Catatan Pak Arif

If you truly understand what plagiarism is, then you don’t need a plagiarism detector. You don’t need to ask Turnitin. Because you are the one who knows best whether you intentionally plagiarized or not. "Unintentional plagiarism" only happens to those who don’t grasp the definit...

A few weeks ago, while speaking at UIN Surakarta, a student asked me a troubling question:“Sir, my article was accepted by a journal, but the editor said it could only be published if I added a foreign author.”This wasn’t an isolated case. A month earlier, a friend told me that a Malaysian writer—so...

Recently, while reviewing a research proposal, I came across a familiar claim: that the use of technology in Japanese language instruction continues to face serious obstacles—chief among them, teachers’ inability to use the tools themselves. The proposal cited “Study A” as the source.Curious, I trac...