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01.06.2007: Behind The Web Of Lies
The Times Higher Education Supplement June 1, 2007 Behind the web of lies Hannah Devlin Pg. 19 No. 1796 931 words Blaming the internet and IT for the rise in plagiarism does not address the root cause for students' disregard of scholarly endeavour, says Hannah Devlin The rise of new technology is often portrayed as having disastrous consequences for higher education. In particular, internet plagiarism tends to be reported in the press with a degree of moral outrage normally
01.10.2007: A Time-out For Clarity's Sake
University Wire October 1, 2007 Monday A time-out for clarity's sake Staff Editorial, Daily Egyptian; SOURCE: Southern Illinois U. EDITORIAL 850 words DATELINE: CARBONDALE, Ill. As with any story that gains momentum, people who want the scoop often find that they have jumped in mid-circus. In light of the impressive response surrounding SIU President Glenn Poshard's plagiarism allegations, we feel compelled to provide somewhat of an overview on the matter for such community
07.07.2008: The Problem With Plagiarism (review: Little Book Of Plagiarism)
New Atlantis Spring 2007 The Problem with Plagiarism Jeremy Lott Pg. 98-102 No. 16 1829 words The Little Book of Plagiarism By Richard A. Posner Pantheon ~ 2007 117 pp. ~ $10.95 (cloth) IN 2004, 17-year-old Kaavya Viswanathan signed a two-book deal with Little, Brown on the basis of a few drafted chapters and an outline for a novel. Most 17-year-olds are not capable of writing a novel, and as it turned out Viswanathan, who entered Harvard soon after, was no exception. She hi
18.09.2007: U. Arizona Ponders Plagiarism Pact With Detection Web Site
University Wire September 18, 2007 Tuesday U. Arizona ponders plagiarism pact with detection Web site By Siobhan Daniel, Arizona Daily Wildcat; SOURCE: U. Arizona 644 words DATELINE: TUCSON, Ariz. As the University of Arizona's contract comes close to expiring with plagiarism-detection Web site turnitin.com, UA administrators are setting up student focus groups to determine the site's effectiveness. Before the university renews the contract, administrators would like to find
24.08.2007: Copiers Taken On (australia)
Newcastle Herald (Australia) August 24, 2007 Friday Late Edition Copiers taken on GR NEWS; Pg. 18 81 words THE University of New England will follow the University of Newcastle and require students to use plagiarism detection software following a recent plagiarism scandal. A New England university spokesman said yesterday the plagiarism detection software package Turnitin would be introduced next year. The software tests the originality of students' work against a global
25.09.2007: Southern Illinois U. Students Ponder Affect Of Plagiarism Accusations
University Wire September 25, 2007 Tuesday Southern Illinois U. students ponder affect of plagiarism accusations By Brandy Oxford, Daily Egyptian; SOURCE: Southern Illinois U. 559 words DATELINE: CARBONDALE, Ill. As if writing hundred-plus page papers weren't enough, many of Southern Illinois University's graduate students say they now worry what a degree from SIUC will be worth. While administrators debate the definition of plagiarism and whether it can be accomplished accid
31.08.2007: Poshard To Answer Plagiarism Claims; Accused Of Lifting Text For '84 Ph.d. Dissertation
Chicago Sun Times August 31, 2007 Friday Final Edition Poshard to answer plagiarism claims; Accused of lifting text for '84 Ph.D. dissertation Dave Newbart, The Chicago Sun-Times NEWS; Pg. 5 745 words Southern Illinois University President Glenn Poshard, a former Democratic gubernatorial nominee, is to meet with faculty and staff leaders today to respond to allegations he plagiarized parts of his doctoral dissertation. He is to "provide his perspective'' on the allegations,
At What Cost?
Peter Luscombe's classroom is a dying breed: a technology-free zone. No iPods, no cell phones, no Internet -- just a bunch of students, a teacher and books. "I tell them they can use the book, their brain, and nothing else," Luscombe, an English teacher of 22 years, says in the teacher's lounge at Lucas secondary school in London, Ont.. Not so in Joy Hunter's classroom, where Grade 12 English students are sitting in a computer lab, looking for videos online to go with a novel they're re
Balancing The Student Experience
Student Supplement Peter Hungerford-Welch associate dean, Inns of Court School of Law, City University, London © Reed Elsevier (UK) Ltd 2004 Just started a law degree? It's a daunting business, but Peter Hungerford-Welch has some tips from the top ● taking full advantage of learning opportunities ● best ways to tackle written assignments and examinations As a university student, you have much more freedom than in your earlier studies. That freedom means you hav
Beat The Cheat
The pace of research has accelerated, fuelled by the ready availability of material in electronic format. But there is a downside, with a minority of students and researchers passing off others' work as their own. Plagiarism ranges from cheating at undergraduate level to high-profile fraud in the research world. Publishers are taking steps to address the problem, with plagiarism detection software complementing the traditional editorial process, and are keen to cite this as part of the added va
Brightest Students Cashing In By Selling Notes Online
SOME of Britain's brightest students are earning hundreds of pounds by making their notes and essays available on a dedicated website. Academics said the practice could lead undergraduates to copy the work and present it as their own, and gave warning that students could be expelled for cheating. GradeGuru described itself as a note-sharing website for students who needed study aides or those with material they wanted to share for financial "reward''. The site claimed to have contributi
Cheats Or Help?
There is a surely a fine, grey line between legitimate study aids and cheating. Where do we draw it? An Essay Cheat correspondent looks at some popular 'study aids' and asks whether they constitute cheating or not. Question and Answer Books I didn't find out about Q & A books until after I'd done my degree and started freelancing for an academic writing company. Q & A books (such as the Blackstone's Q & A law series) are available in major bookshops as well as on Amazon. The
Choose Your Weapon
Technological development drives how people learn, with today's trailblazer tomorrow's mainstay. What are the newest ICT tools? Lucky students at Leicester University not only develop their learning through a virtual learning environment (VLE); they can also sample open-source collaborative websites like Twitter, del.i.cious, Flickr and Twine. These enable, respectively, users to share personal information, recommendations for weblinks, pictures and discussion threads. "Fi
Computer Program Helps Unis Catch 1300 Cheating Students
Hundreds of WA university students have been caught cheating in exams and plagiarising course work. More than 1300 students have been nabbed trying to pass off other people's work as their own since January 2006, documents obtained under Freedom of Information laws show. Academics say it is impossible to know how many other students may be cheating on assignments - ghost-written ones were the hardest to detect. Penalties for plagiarism can include suspension, loss of mark
Criminal Justice Students Take Top Honors At Statewide Competition
Five Marshall University Criminal Justice students who took part in the West Virginia Criminal Justice Educators Association's recent annual conference placed second in the statewide crime scene competition. The students included undergraduates Michelle Cunningham, Patrick Hernandez and William "Andy" Walker, and graduate students Lauren Copley and Pallavi Samariya. In addition, Marshall University Criminal Justice majors won two of the four awards for the student paper competition. Cople
Do Ghostwriters Help Students Cheat?
It's disappointing to read Caron Dann's article for the Times Higher Education supplement (below) condemning writers who ghostwrite for essay sites. There are many ways of cheating on your coursework. Copying from books, journals, and from the internet is one of the most prolific ways - more prolific than using essay writing websites. By Caron's reasoning, we should all stop writing books and journals and stop creating internet sites. You see the problem with this line of reasoning is, i
Essay Cheats Face Deterrent
Aberdeen Press and Journal SECTION: News; Education; Colleges/Univs; Pg. 12 LENGTH: 197 words An Academic at the Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, is further developing computer software to combat essay cheats. James Christie hopes improvements to SEAR, which analyses word-processed work for similar content and style, could lead to it being marketed as a service to universities across the UK. The programme analyses parameters from a small sample of essays such as vocabulary, sentence
Facing Up To Internet Cheats
THE JOURNAL (Newcastle, UK) BYLINE: By Graeme Whitfield, The Journal SECTION: EDUCATION SCHOOLS, Pg. 1 LENGTH: 1019 words After private schools called for GCSE coursework to be scrapped to deter internet cheats, education correspondent Graeme we look at how widespread plagiarism has become in the classroom. ********** From passing notes in class to copying the clever kid's homework, cheating in schools is nothing new. Teachers have been trying to stop children cheating for almo
How Much Plagiarism Is Plagiarism?
Clearly, one direct quote of 10 words that the student accidently fails to put in quotation marks will not lead to a claim of plagiarism. But we are reluctant to put a percentage or definite figure down for what would constitute a claim. As an example, recently, a student submitted work with: o A 4,000 word appendix made up of copied material most of which she did not attribute to any source o A section of 1,000 words which was at least 50% 'paraphrased' from a report. The
Media Star Under Scrutiny Over Radio Nz Broadcasts
Noelle McCarthy's opinions are everywhere, but are they all hers? Kim Knight reports. RADIO NEW Zealand is reviewing broadcasts by presenter and commentator Noelle McCarthy, after concerns were raised about alleged unattributed use of other journalists' work. Media experts have called the similarity between three McCarthy essays and articles from overseas newspapers "compelling" and "disconcerting". The similarities were discovered by the Sunday Star-Times, when it Googled transcripts