Understanding
the scope of the problem -
Oft quoted statistics - from http://www.plagiarism.org/plagiarism_stats.html
1 - A study by The Center for Academic Integrity found that almost 80% of
college students admit to cheating at least once. "A study of almost
4,500 students at 25 schools, conducted in 2000/2001, suggests cheating is
also a significant problem in high school - 74%
of the respondents admitted to one or more instances of serious test cheating
and 72% admitted to serious cheating on written assignments. Over half of
the students admitted they have engaged in some level of plagiarism on written
assignments using the Internet."
http://www.academicintegrity.org/cai_research.asp
2 - According to a survey by the Psychological Record 36% of undergraduates
have admitted to plagiarizing written material.
3 - A poll conducted by US News and World Reports found that 90% of
students believe that cheaters are either never caught or have never
been appropriately disciplined.
4 - The State of Americans: This Generation and the Next (Free Press, July
1996) states that 58.3% of high school students let someone else copy their
work in 1969, and 97.5% did so in 1989.
5 - A study conducted by Ronald M. Aaron and Robert T. Georgia: Administrator
Perceptions of Student Academic Dishonesty in Collegiate Institutions found
that 257 chief student affairs officers across the country believe that colleges
and universities have not addressed the cheating problem adequately.
6 - According to the Gallup Organization (October 6-9, 2000), the top two
problems facing the country today are: 1) Education and 2) Decline
in Ethics (both were ranked over crime, poverty, drugs, taxes, guns,
environment, and racism, to name a few).
7 - A national survey published in Education Week found that 54% of students
admitted to plagiarizing from the Internet; 74% of students admitted that
at least once during the past school year they had engaged in "serious"
cheating; and 47% of students believe their teachers sometimes choose to ignore
students who are cheating.
*** While trying somewhat unsuccessfully to confirm
these statistics, I searched "Decline
in Ethics" looking for the actual Gallup poll and followed
a link that quickly lead to
http://www.impactpapers.com/cgi-bin/display.cgi?subject=Religion&start=280
75% cheat in some way, faculty are reluctant to take action, many are confused
as to what plagiarism is, the internet is a big factor and honor codes do
seem to help
http://ultibase.rmit.edu.au/Articles/dec98/gajad1.htm
Doreen Vigue ... cites one example The Evil House of Cheat which not only
provides essays, reports, research papers and field study papers but free
tips on how to cheat in class while taking an exam.
What
constitutes plagiarism and educating our teachers about the problem-
If you only have time to review a few, use these two below. They cover all
the bases with suggestions for good teaching, good hunting and a listing of
the major internet paper dealers.
http://www.coastal.edu/library/presentations/papermil.html the best overall
http://www.library.ualberta.ca/guides/plagiarism/preventing/index.cfm
http://albany.edu/cetl/teaching/plagiarism.html
Defining
Plagiarism - With Examples
http://hnn.us/articles/514.html
Here are
three interpretations of plagiarism in one article from the History News Network.
The first is from the American
Historical Association and deserves a good read in its entirety; the second
is from the Modern Language Association and the third is from the American
Psychological Association.
http://www.princeton.edu/pr/pub/integrity/index.html -
gives examples of plagiarism
http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/pamphlets/plagiarism.shtml -
good examples
http://www.chem.uky.edu/courses/common/plagiarism.html Paraphrasing
is plagiarism!!! Ask your teacher!
http://www.georgetown.edu/honor/plagiarism.html - good one, kid talk, straight!
assembling needs credit, start with clean screen, don't cut and paste - It's
part of the scientific paradigm that is prevalent in Western societies, which
says that convincing evidence about the truth of a hypothesis can be built
up only by amassing several independent direct or indirect confirmations
of the hypothesis. If I can track down the source, I can see for myself whether
I think it is valid.
If frames are being used, the actual web page address is hidden
how him or her your drafts, the notes you took, and any other materials you
used in writing the paper, then you probably will be able to show that
it was your own work.
And whether you are using Plato, Josephus, Machiavelli, Michelangelo, Emerson,
Chesterton, T.S. Eliot or e.e. cummings, you must cite your sources.
http://plagiarism.dal.ca/student/examples.html - short
and sweet,
examples
http://www.depts.drew.edu/composition/Avoiding_Plagiarism.htm Drew University,
good examples
http://www.english.vt.edu/~IDLE/plagiarism/plagiarism1.html Tutorial, QUIZ
http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html 10
big myths about plagiarism
http://www.lawrence.k12.nj.us/TECHDEPT/copyright.htm good
one, quiz and challenge
http://www.techlearning.com/db_area/archives/TL/2002/10/copyright_quiz.html - quiz great
http://www.techlearning.com/db_area/archives/TL/2002/10/copyright.html great
http://www.techlearning.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=55800210 good
beginnings
Crash
Course in Copyright - from the Univeristy of Texas
http://www.utsystem.edu/OGC/IntellectualProperty/cprtindx.htm
http://www.benedict.com/ One of the sites
for copyright issues
http://www.cas.usf.edu/english/walker/papers/copyright/ipdummie.html Intellectual
Property in the Information Age: A Classroom Guide to Copyright
Electronic
Plagiarism Seminar from LeMoyne College, covers all aspects
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