Among these factors, perseverance is the top reason for outsourcing work, because of the tedious nature of the academic work, students would easily quit their work in the midway. 

 

Secondly, academic aptitiude. As students need to study more than one subjects, they might not good at all of them, therefore is easy to quit the relative challenging assignments. 

 

Thirdly, self-discipline. Sometimes it would be hard for students to start the work because of procrastination and laziness, which means to put it off till the last minute. In this case, students might collude within a group and they could not complete their work independently. 

 

The last two reasons are personal issues and competing objectives, these two reasons would sometimes out of student’s control. When students getting ill or find hard to balance school and other issues, they might find it easy to outsource their work.

 

In the conclusion, as this article analyses the factors on a wide scale of students, the following focus should be put on the analysis of different reasons between individual student. 

Reading: 

1.We need to have a comprehensive understand about what it say. 

2.We need to distinguish between paraphrases, quotations, own comments and copy. 

3.In referring to the sources in your own work, we need to provide proper reference. 

From our group's opinion, we think this text is provide us with the understanding on how we should taking our note to use for an academic work. The purpose is the note should allow us to look back and use it in our academic writing more accurately. So, we should know what pages is, is the information is from the author or from the cited information in the article. Moreover, we should clearly distinguish what is the idea from the text and what is our own opinion. If our note is lack of accurate information, we then need to look back at the article again. It means that we cannot rely on our note and the note is not effective. 

Lecture: 

1. Just noting down few key points, not everything we heard. 

2.Highlight the points what you need to do further research and books or articles that could be useful for your work.

3.Noting some key questions you want to ask, whether you then ask the lecturer about them, look them up in books or simply keep them in mind when doing your reading.

To sum up, taking notes is the first step to use citations and prevent plagiarism and  form opinions for our essay, and clear notes allow you to quickly form our own stance.