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- Mr. Smith…this paper is soo good that you are:
- (a). Getting an “F”.
- (b). Expelled.
- (c). Receiving an “A+”
- you didn’t earn.
- (d) Fired.
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- Academic Integrity involves learning about other’s works and respecting
the knowledge of the past, to produce new works for the future.
- Academic dishonesty is a problem facing universities across the nation.
- Plagiarism is one form of academic dishonesty.
- As a student, handling academic ethical standards in writing and
research involves employing ethical standards and making moral
decisions.
- Such decisions may follow you out of school and into the workplace.
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- Let’s examine some myths:
- Plagiarism (cheating) isn’t a serious offense
- Plagiarism (cheating) doesn’t harm anyone
- Everyone does it, so you are at a disadvantage if you don’t.
- Nobody ever gets caught.
- Plagiarism can’t be proven, so you can’t be sanctioned.
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- Plagiarism (Latin for “piracy”)
includes, but is not limited to, intentionally:
- Submitting an entire paper, research project, or assignment written by
another person as the student’s own material.
- Submitting any portion of a paper, research project, or assignment
written by another person as the student’s own or not citing it
properly in the text and references section of the paper.
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- Heywood Ehrlich of Rutgers University defines the following types of
plagiarism, ranked in order of decreasing seriousness:
- Fraud: outright purchase or copying of an entire paper, perhaps with a
new introduction or conclusion added. In some cases, such copying may
entail copyright infringement.
Substantial plagiarism: widespread or considerable borrowing of
material, passing off borrowed passages as original, failure to indicate
quoted evidence or give bibliographical sources or other appropriate
credit.
Incidental plagiarism: small-scale borrowing, copying,
downloading, or insertion without appropriate quotation, credit, or
acknowledgment.
- [http://www.andromeda.rutgers.edu/~ehrlich/plagiarism598.htmll]
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- Plagiarism is very common:
- About 80% of college students admit having cheated at least once.
- 36% of undergraduates say they have plagiarized written material.
- There is not much deterrence for plagiarism:
- 90% of students believe that cheaters are never caught or appropriately
disciplined.
- And, plagiarism is increasing:
- 58.3% of high school students let someone else copy their work in
1969, but 97.5% did so in 1989.
- Source: http://www.plagiarism.org/plagiarism_stats.html
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- Motivations include:
- Ignorance: the student has not learned the appropriate ways to cite
sources, particularly Internet sources.
- Temptation: the Internet has made plagiarism both tempting and easy,
through either the cut-and-paste function or term paper mills where
essays on any topic can be quickly bought and downloaded.
- Lack of Deterrence: assignments often make plagiarism easy.
- Cultural norms: we live in a culture that sees cheating and plagiarism
as a minor offense, as evidenced by the previously cited statistics
(from the Plagiarism.org website):
- Desperation: some students, overwhelmed with the pressures of home,
work, and family, take the easy route out of desperation.
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- Cheating on a test or examination
- Falsifying data in a research project
- Forging or altering official documents
- Submitting previous work to fulfill course requirements
- Claiming the work of others as your own
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- Repeated deliberate acts of plagiarism.
- Deliberate use of a third party to complete course work such as taking
an examination using the student’s identity.
- Deliberate theft of another student’s
work for submission
- Deliberate altering of official documents to improve academic standing
or to mislead or falsify academic information.
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- A student who is caught plagiarizing may face some or all of the
following consequences (depending upon your specific college’s policies
and procedures):
- To get a zero grade for the paper or project
- To get a failing grade for the course
- To be expelled from the University
- To have the reasons for the expulsion noted on his or her transcripts
- If the integrity violation involves work done to complete a degree, such
as a thesis, comp examination, or dissertation, the student may lose his
or her degree.
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- Plagiarism is a form of theft:
- The person plagiarizing is stealing another person’s intellectual work,
or ‘intellectual property’.
- Besides being illegal, it is unethical. See the next slide for an
example!
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- This is a little ditty about Lucy
and Barb.
- Lucy spent several weekends in the library, researching for and writing
up her term paper for her criminal justice class.
- Barbara spent the same weekends partying with her friends.
- Lucy and Barbara live in an apartment together.
- When Lucy was out, Barbara took her paper, copied it, typed up a new
title page, and turned it in as her own.
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- WRONG.
- See the next slide.
- Where do you think the professionals discussed in the next slide learned
the unethical habits that got them fired?
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- What can you say about a trusted professional who makes stuff up and
publishes it as fact?
- Last week, New York Times reporter Jayson Blair joined Janet Cooke,
formerly of the Washington Post, the New Republic's Stephen Glass, the
Boston Globe's Patricia Smith, and Jay Forman in Slate as journalists
who got caught embellishing, exaggerating, and outright lying in print.
The will to fabricate cuts across disciplines, with academics and
scientists inventing data, too. Last year, Emory University history
professor Michael A. Bellesiles resigned following an investigation of
charges that he concocted evidence to support his book Arming America,
and Bell Labs fired researcher Jan Hendrik Schon when it discovered he
made up scientific data and published it.
- http://slate.msn.com/id/2082741/
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- Inform yourself.
- Cite correctly.
- Respect your sources.
- Develop a code of personal professional ethics, and stand by it.
- And take the tutorial on How to Avoid Plagiarism: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_plagiar.html
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