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26 novembre 2017

Forget plagiarism: there’s a new and bigger threat to academic integrity

Academic plagiarism is no longer just sloppy “cut and paste” jobs or students cribbing large chunks of an assignment from a friend’s earlier essay on the same topic. These days, students can simply visit any of a number of paper or essay mills that litter the internet and buy a completed assignment to present as their own. More...

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26 novembre 2017

Delusions of candour: why technology won’t stop plagiarism

Plagiarism at university is a time-old scourge. Some would have us believe it can be sought out with ever-improving technology, and with more consistent vetting of student essays with the latest detection software. But beneath these appeals to superior forensic intelligence lies an unhappy fallacy – that a technological fix can address a moral problem. More...

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26 novembre 2017

Cheating with essay mills: an extension of students asking each other for help?

Given the sophisticated detection tools to stop cheating, it’s unsurprising that the Channel 4 Dispatches documentary turned its attention to the migration from copy-and-paste internet plagiarism to cash-for-drafts “essay mills”. Universities seem relatively blind to this “contract cheating” in which students pay somebody else to do their assignment, but the scale of the business is sobering. More...

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26 novembre 2017

Plagiarisme di UNJ: persekongkolan akademisi dan politikus

Temuan plagiarisme beberapa disertasi para pejabat publik alumni program pascasarjana Universitas Negeri Jakarta (UNJ), yang berujung pada pemecatan Rektor UNJ Profesor Djaali minggu ini, adalah contoh kecil dari carut-marutnya pengelolaan universitas di Indonesia. More...

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22 octobre 2017

Universities urged to block essay-mill sites in plagiarism crackdown

Watchdog issues guidance to help institutions address ‘pernicious’ cheating through use of sites for written-to-order papers. More...

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22 octobre 2017

Plenty of ways to bring an end to plagiarism in university essays

I once answered a job advertisement for an “academic researcher”, thereby inadvertently applying for a job with one of these sites. More...

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22 septembre 2017

Universities body drafts policy to check plagiarism

The University Grants Commission has released draft regulations to create academic awareness about responsible conduct of research and prevention of misconduct including plagiarism in academic writing, writes Anisha Singh for NDTV. More...

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15 juillet 2017

Bad Idea About Writing: Plagiarism Deserves to Be Punished

While most believe the contrary, some people understand that plagiarism is not necessarily deceitful or deserving censure, writesJennifer A. Mott-Smith. More...

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10 juillet 2017

How to prevent accidental plagiarism in an online world

Techno-News Blog. Students write a lot, and the issue of plagiarism (or, at least, wrong paraphrasing) remains topical. As educators, what can you do to help students avoid the problem? Everything starts with suspicion. You take a student’s essay, start reading it, and it doesn’t feel right. More...

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29 avril 2017

Plagiarism: It’s All Greek to Some

By World View. As higher education continues to recruit internationally, institutions must support and monitor the movement of knowledge with greater care. More...

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