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Abstract: Plagiarism is associated with a form of research misconducts that falsify another’s concepts, opinions, or words and recognize it as private property without giving proper citation of the original source. This article is a part of a larger study on English undergraduate students’ attitude toward pla-giarism which emphasize on the main reasons that might appear for doing plagiarism. This study was conducted at universities in Malang. The data comes from English undergraduate students’ question-naires. The result shows that the students present their confusion in determining their attitude toward plagiarism. This confusion were at least associated with two main reasons; external and internal factors. Further, recommendations for universities are provided. Key Words: plagiarism reason, undergraduate students, reasons, universities in Malang

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