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14.09.2007: Syracuse Adopts Site To Curb Cheating
University Wire Syracuse adopts site to curb cheating By Brian Hayden, Daily Orange; SOURCE: Syracuse 495 words DATELINE: SYRACUSE, N.Y. It's 11:30, the night before a paper is due. Only 100 words of a 1,500-word essay are on the page, and the temptation of plagiarism is there with every Google search. But now the chance of getting caught is even greater. Syracuse University's Academic Integrity Office has officially adopted Turnitin.com as an option for professors to us
27.09.2007: Honesty Is Always The Best Policy
University Wire September 27, 2007 Thursday Honesty is always the best policy Staff Editorial, Daily Collegian; SOURCE: Penn State EDITORIAL 369 words DATELINE: UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. Big Brother might be watching you. Or at least, he might be reading your term papers. Recently, PSU professors vowed to get serious about catching students cheating on schoolwork. About 50 percent of all faculty think academic dishonesty is a huge problem, according to John Harwood, senior dir
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
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
Ona Criminal Justice Student Takes Top Honors At Statewide Competition
Copyright 2008 Independent News Auckland Ltd. All Rights Reserved 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 wo