Plagiarism and Academic Honesty in the Age of Technology
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Selected Information Sources
Scholarly and Professional Literature
Abbott, Alison. "Science Comes to Terms with Lessons of Fraud."
Nature. 398:6722 (4 Mar 1999) : 13-17.
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Discusses scientific misconduct and includes lists of web sites dealing with guidelines on misconduct. See also Discussion : Nature. 399:6731 (6 May 1999) : 13.
Andersen, Espen. "Battling Plagiarism." Communications
of the ACM. 39 (Feb 1996) : 11-12.
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Discusses the Denning article "Plagiarism in the Web" (see below) in the context of software that automatically detects characteristics of plagiarism. Cites a case of using the business periodical database ABI/Inform to check an instance of plagiarism.
Anderson, Gregory L. "Cyberplagiarism: a Look at the Web
Term Paper Sites." College & Research Libraries News. 60.5
(May 1999) : 371-373+.
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Defines Web TEMPTs - Web TErM Paper siTes - and suggests solutions for librarians and other educators to discourage plagiarism such as "mentor(ing) the writing process" and "teach(ing) our students how to properly use the Web for their research."
Botterbusch, Hope Roland. Copyright in the Age of New
Technology. Fastback #405. Bloomington, IN: Phi Delta Kappa Educational
Foundation, 1996.
KF2995.B68 1996
Buranen, Lise and Alice Myers Roy. Perspectives on Plagiarism and intellectual Property in a Postmodern World. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1995.
Bushweller, Kevin. "Digital Deception." American School
Board Journal. 186.3 (Mar 1999) : A18-A19+.
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Discusses whether technology, e.g. the Web, pagers, fax and high-powered calculators, has "raised the art of cheating beyond the reach of educators......describes some of the tricks that students use, discusses the problem of hackers, and lists Web sites that offer students term papers and cheating tips."
Denning, Peter J. "Plagiarism in the Web." Communications
of the ACM. 38 (Dec 1995) : 29.
See Discussion above at Andersen.
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Freedman, Morris. "Don't Blame the Internet for Plagiarism." Education Week. 18.14 (2 Dec 1998) : 36+.
Teachers can forestall plagiarism by keeping their courses fresh, by knowing their own field, and by getting to know students' capacity for genuine understanding, analysis, and expression.
Harris, Ian. "The National Grid for Cheating." Times
Educational Supplement. 4306 (8 Jan 1999) : SS62A-SS63A
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"Increasing numbers of sites on the ... Web are dedicated to helping youngsters cheat and plagiarize."
Hicks, Bill. "School Sucks." Times Educational Supplement.
4332 (9 Jul 1999) : SS27. "
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Many (of these papers) are so gloriously bad that even the most desperate students would think twice....
Houtchens, Bobbi Ciriza. "Cybernews From Our Evolving Culture."
English Journal. 88.2 (Nov 1998) : 107. Highlights Intelligent
Essay Assessor (IEA)
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A web-based service which uses latent semantic analysis to "supply instantaneous evaluations and tutorial advice in the semantic content and conceptual quality of expository writing."
Marshall, Eliot. "The Internet: a Powerful Tool for Plagiarism
Sleuths." Science. 279 (23 Jan 1998) : 474.
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The internet provides avenues to detect and combat plagiarism as well as aid it. Uses the plagiarism case of chemical engineer Andrzej Jendryczko as illustration.
McCollum, Kelly. "Students Find Sex, Drugs, and More than
a Little Education On Line, survey Finds." Chronicle of Higher Education.
45.36 (14 May 1999) : A31.
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A survey by a professor at Bloomsburg University shows "college students are using the Internet for more than class work, including pornography and cheating." The data also shows they tend to fib while online.
Orlans, Harold. "English Composition." Change. 31.2 (Mar
1999) : 8.
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Author discusses the case of a freshman comp instructor who flunked half a class when she established their papers were downloaded from the net.
Robertson, John S. "The Curse of Plenty: Mathematics and the Internet." Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching 18.1 (1999) : 3-5.
...the undermining of academic integrity by the Web...makes it trivial to plagiarize and easy to cheat.
Ryan, Julie J.C.H. "Student Plagiarism in an Online World." ASEE Prism. 8.4 (Dec 1998) : 20-24.
Discusses tools and techniques to help educators deal with plagiarism.
Simkins, Michael B. "Problems and Solutions for the Digital
Age." Technology & Learning. 18.9 (May 1998) : 58. "
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"Some of the problems...inaccurate information, distortion of information, plagiarism, and multimedia presentations that look better than they are."
Stebelman, Scott. "Cybercheating: Dishonesty Goes Digital."
American Libraries. 29.8 (Sep 1998) : 48-50.
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"..several tools exist to help....detect instances of plagiarism....Librarians and faculty should be aware...that many students do not understand that Web material is not in the public domain,.....that translation software gives students greater access to available material for plagiarizing.....suggestions for reducing cybercheating are provided."
Utley, Alison. "Techno Cheats Bedevil Sector." Times
Higher Education Supplement. 1393 (15 July 1999) : 1.
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Discusses the British higher education communities response to high-tech cheating.
Current Event and Popular Press
Applebome, Peter. "On the Internet, Term Papers Are Hot
Items." New York Times. (8 Jun 1997, late ed.) : A3.
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Handelman, David. "Taking the Shame Out of Plagiarism: Articles
Reprinted on the Internet Without Permission." New York Times.
(11 Apr 1998, late NY ed.) : A11.
NEWS N4T5 microfilm
Hickman, John N. "Cybercheats: Term-paper Shopping Online."
New Republic. 218 (23 Mar 1998) : 14-15.
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Quotes Anthony Krier, research librarian at Franklin Pierce College, on the increase in online essay sites from 28 in 1997 to 72 by the beginning of 1998.
Kleiner, Carolyn and Mary Lord. "The Great Term-paper Buying
Caper." U.S.News & World Report. 127.20 (22 Nov 1999) : 63.
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O'Leary, Mick. "The Web Banishes Term-paper Blues: Online
Term-paper Mills." Information Today. 16.3 (Mar 1999) : 14-15+.
Full text from the ABI/Inform
Plotz, David. "New Frontiers in Cheating." Rolling Stone.
823 (14 Oct 1999) : 107.
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"World Wide Web Makes Copying Easy." USA Today (periodical).
127.2647 (Apr 1999) : 15-16.
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Quotes Purdue psychology professor Stuart Offenbach on the ease of internet cheating and on the emotional stress "for those who are the victims of plagiarism (continuing) after they have accused the plagiarist."
Zack, Ian. "Universities Finding a Sharp Rise in Computer-aided Cheating." New York Times. (23 Sep 1998, late NY ed.) : B11.
Websites that assist plagiarism
School Sucks
"...the largest collection of free, but awful homework. School Sucks is 100% against plagiarism. If we wanted to encourage plagiarism we would a) charge even $1 per paper and thereby deny educators the right to see them and b) rate or grade the papers." But that would be honest WORK, something this sight is also clearly against.
Evil House of Cheat
Well, School Sucks isn't the largest any more. They only have 3700 essays. This site in Denmark has been collecting since 1995 and has more than 9,000.
Other People's Papers
Left side of page: "We are against plagiarism 100 %." Right side of page: "Use any resources you have when you take tests. OPPapers.com is always here to help with any term paper work." 1500 essays in six months and growing.
IvyEssays
A site which buys and sells essays written by successful college applicants. Even administrators have to worry about techno-plagiarists. See also the following article:McCollum, Kelly. "One Way to Get into College: Buy an Essay that Worked for Someone Else." Chronicle of Higher Education. 43 (28 Feb 1997) : A25-A26. PERIOD C4676 microfilm
Websites that combat plagiarism
Plagiarism.org
"Plagiarism.org is an organization dedicated to assuring academic work originality and maintaining high standards of ethics by providing institutes of learning with an easy means of deterring and detecting plagiarism. How does it work?
Plagiarism.org has compiled a massive database of digital material by continually cataloging and indexing online academic works with automated web robots. Online paper mills are a major focus. Papers from participating courses and other academic web sites are archived as well. To detect plagiarism from the Internet at large we interface with the major search engines. Students papers are then compared against this database by athenticate, our advanced matching algorithm, and a report of originality is generated. This report is sent to the instructor, and provides an analysis of the structure and content of the paper. In the structure analysis hyperlinks are provided to the closest five manuscripts with the unoriginality of each being ranked by a numerical score in conjunction with a color code to indicate the approximate level of unoriginality. In the content analysis portion of the report unoriginal portions of the text are highlighted and underlined using the same color as the hyperlink provided at the top of the page."
Glatt Plagiarism Services
A software producer offering three products: a tutorial illustrating what constitutes plagiarism and how to avoid it; a faculty-directed screening program to detect plagiarism; and a student-directed self-detection program to catch unintentional copying.