[EAS]Plagiarism redux

pjk pjk at design.eng.yale.edu
Fri Nov 30 00:53:00 EST 2001


Subject:   Plagiarism redux

Further to <http://www.yale.edu/engineering/eng-info/msg00813.html>
the same CIT INFOBITS (Noc. 30, 2001) newsletter
<http://www.unc.edu/cit/infobits/> offers this update

Experiment a little with the free tools. I have also found text-string
searches with Google.com surprisingly effective. Instances of quotes,
jokes, puzzle-answers, etc. are locatable almost immediately.  --PJK
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FACULTY GUIDE TO CYBER-PLAGIARISM

The University of Alberta Libraries has launched a new website "A
Faculty Guide to Cyber-Plagiarism" to help faculty prevent, detect,
and report plagiarism. "'Cyber-plagiarism' is the term used to
describe the process by which students either copy ideas found on the
Web without giving proper attribution, or the process by which
students download research papers from the Web, in whole or in part,
and submit the paper as original work. The phenomenon of
cyber-plagiarism is affecting Universities around the globe." The
guide includes links to free and for-fee plagiarism detection
services. You can access the guide at
http://www.library.ualberta.ca/guides/plagiarism/

Also of interest:

"Forget About Policing Plagiarism. Just Teach" (THE CHRONICLE OF
HIGHER EDUCATION, vol. 48, issue 12, November 16, 2001, p. B24) by
Rebecca Moore Howard, associate professor of writing and rhetoric, and
director of the writing program, at Syracuse University.

Howard argues that "[i]n our stampede to fight what The New York Times
calls a 'plague' of plagiarism, we risk becoming the enemies rather
than the mentors of our students; we are replacing the student-teacher
relationship with the criminal-police relationship. Further, by
thinking of plagiarism as a unitary act rather than a collection of
disparate activities, we risk categorizing all of our students as
criminals. Worst of all, we risk not recognizing that our own pedagogy
needs reform. Big reform." The article is online to CHE subscribers at
http://chronicle.com/weekly/v48/i12/12b02401.htm

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