How Bad Is Plagiarism At Universities?

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Is plagiarism at universities out of
control?

Is plagiarism at universities out of
control? 03/22/2005 04:37 PM
Is plagiarism at universities out of control? Academic Plagiarism is a growing problem in the university world and is not just making headlines in the United States anymore. While some professors are morally opposed, the growing popularity of professors forcing students to submit works ahead of time to companies like Turnitin may be an indicator of of this growing problem. With more and more employers complaining about the writing skills of new hires, are we just cheating ourselves in the end?

Plagiarism: You Get What You Pay For

Plagiarism: You Get What You Pay For 08/22/2004 05:05 PM
T he New York Times' guide to plagiarism resources.
Apparently Consumer Reports is busy watching bread grow mold or something, so it's nice to see someone else addressing the consumer protection needs of today's college student.

Getting Through College, Thanks To
Plagiarism

Getting Through College, Thanks To
Plagiarism 11/13/2003 05:25 AM
There have been plenty of stories about college kids cheating by buying or just cutting and pasting complete assignments for their classes, but this BBC piece includes a quote from someone claiming that she basically did that on every paper she's turned in throughout college, and is now using the same cut-and-paste method to finish up her dissertation. Clearly, that's an outlier example, but it does show how far people will go. The article includes lots of quotes from people who complain about the dumbing down of our education system that has allowed this to happen, but I'm not sure that's the case. Kids have always cheated in school. This just makes the process easier. Of course, what they don't mention is that the real punishment is already being handed out to these kids. They're attending (and in many cases paying quite a bit) four years of college and not learning a damn thing, because all they're doing is cutting and pasting.

Playwright Lavery Accused of Plagiarism
(AP)

Playwright Lavery Accused of Plagiarism
(AP) 09/25/2004 05:53 AM
AP - English playwright Byrony Lavery has been accused of plagiarizing passages from a criminal psychiatrist and a magazine writer in her Tony Award-nominated play about a serial killer and his psychiatrist.

Korean Scientist Accused of Plagiarism

Korean Scientist Accused of Plagiarism 01/04/2004 06:14 AM
Hankooki Jan 4 2004 4:35AM ET

Bloggers' Plagiarism Scientifically
Proven

Bloggers' Plagiarism Scientifically
Proven 03/06/2004 02:04 AM
Slashdot Mar 5 2004 6:44PM GMT

Student expelled for internet plagiarism

Student expelled for internet plagiarism 05/27/2004 09:35 PM
Independent May 28 2004 1:32AM GMT

Plagiarism-seeking IMmer pranked and
exposed

Plagiarism-seeking IMmer pranked and
exposed 03/29/2005 03:07 PM
Cory Doctorow: Nate Kushner was sitting around one night when he started to get IMs from a college student who was looking to commission a term-paper on Hinduism that was due in the morning. She'd seen something about Hinduism in Nate's AIM profile and so she offered him $75 to write the paper. He wrote a silly little paper, strung her along, pranked her, and then published the whole thing along with her real name on his blog:

Laura K. Pahl: lets talk about it then

Nate Kushner: As long as you understand that plagiarism is not going to free you from the painful cycle of death and rebirth any quicker.

Laura K. Pahl: ok

Laura K. Pahl: so can u help me

Nate Kushner: I think I can. It is my duty, as we are all children in the arms of Chivas.

Link (via Waxy)

The latest NYT plagiarism case: Bernie
Weinraub

The latest NYT plagiarism case: Bernie
Weinraub 11/14/2003 04:38 AM
Choire on Gawker says:

Here we go again. Have all journalists figured out the only way to get a good book deal and some press is to plagiarize and invent stories? Or is there some sort of airborn virus at the Times? Look for an act of contrition in the Times' corrections tomorrow. What's even odder is that Weinraub borrowed from the highly unusual source of LukeFord.net.

Link to Slate story

Student Fights University Over
Plagiarism-Detector

Student Fights University Over
Plagiarism-Detector 01/17/2004 10:45 PM
Slashdot Jan 17 2004 4:11PM GMT

12 Year-Old's Anti-Plagiarism Tool
Catches Its Own Creator In The Act

12 Year-Old's Anti-Plagiarism Tool
Catches Its Own Creator In The Act 08/16/2004 05:00 AM
A twelve-year-old kid, looking to make sure he's one of the least-well-liked kids in his classroom among the cheaters, has written up a hack that would let teachers run student papers against a Google check to catch plagiarism. Of course, in testing out the program, his teacher discovered that the program caught the very same 12-year-old who wrote the program in a bit of internet plagiarism himself. Guess he should have tested the program at home first on his own work.

Shyamalan accused of plagiarism over
"Village," audiences accuse film of
sucking

Shyamalan accused of plagiarism over
"Village," audiences accuse film of
sucking 08/16/2004 10:46 AM
Writer-director M Night Shyamalan (Sixth Sense, Signs) may face legal action over accusations that his latest project, The Village, was plagiarized from a children's book. The source in question: "Running Out of Time" by Margaret Peterson Haddix, published by Simon and Schuster in 1995. While the matter of plagiarism is open to debate, evidently the movie's suck factor is not. Last week, one blogger/culture crit pal was so distressed at the stinker he'd paid two digits to see in a Manhattan theater that he text-messaged me halfway through -- "OMG THIS IS THE WORST MOVIE EVER." He was not alone in this assessment. L ink (via MeFi, which includes a handy list of other films accused of plagiarism in recent years)

Author accuses Shyamalan of plagiarism
over "Village," audiences accuse film of
sucking

Author accuses Shyamalan of plagiarism
over "Village," audiences accuse film of
sucking 08/16/2004 11:51 AM
Writer-director M Night Shyamalan (Sixth Sense, Signs) may face legal action over accusations that his latest project, The Village, was plagiarized from a children's book. The source in question: "Running Out of Time" by Margaret Peterson Haddix, published by Simon and Schuster in 1995. While the matter of plagiarism is open to debate, evidently the movie's suck factor is not. Last week, one blogger/culture crit pal was so distressed at the stinker he'd paid two digits to see in a Manhattan theater that he text-messaged me halfway through -- "OMG THIS IS THE WORST MOVIE EVER." He was not alone in this assessment. L ink (via MeFi, which includes a handy list of other films accused of plagiarism in recent years)

Copyscape - Website Plagiarism Search -
Web Page Copyright - Find Site Copies

Copyscape - Website Plagiarism Search -
Web Page Copyright - Find Site Copies 07/12/2004 06:00 AM
Copyscape - Website Plagiarism Search - Web Page Copyright - Find Site Copies
http://www.copyscape.com/

Copyscape finds copies of your content on the Web. You can use Copyscape to identify sites that have copied your content without permission. Copyscape will also show you who is quoting your site. Simply type in the URL of your original content, and Copyscape does the rest. Copyscape is powered by Google Alert technology and uses the Google Web APIs. The widely acclaimed and award winning Google Alert service performs automatic daily Google searches to track your interests on the Web. Both Copyscape and Google Alert are provided by Indigo Stream Technologies Ltd and are not affiliated with Google. Copyscape is currently under beta release and works with Roman alphabet languages such as English, French and German. For now, it does not work with non-Roman languages such as Arabic, Hebrew or Russian. This has been added to the tool section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and will be added to the search engine section of all the Internet MiniGuides 2004-05.

"End-of-semester pressure can lead to
plagiarism - Krystle Kopacz, Penn State
Collegian"

"End-of-semester pressure can lead to
plagiarism - Krystle Kopacz, Penn State
Collegian" 12/15/2003 10:29 PM

Universities and the EU

Universities and the EU 03/06/2004 02:00 AM
The BBC's Mike Baker asks whether the expansion on the European Union will make it harder to get a university place.

Universities Get Together

Universities Get Together 02/17/2004 01:00 PM
The National University of Singapore is working on a plan to enable interoperability among networks of partner universities: The arrangement would mean that students on exchange programs could use the networks. But wouldn't they be able to anyway? I would think that a student from a university in Singapore who may be on exchange at Stanford would automatically be allowed to use the Stanford network. It seems that this plan has a broader reach, however, with plans to allow students from any of the partner universities to use any of the networks. That could be useful for traveling students who may not actually be exchange students. A similar initiative among European universities is underway, spearheaded by Portugal's universities....

Universities get wi-fi access

Universities get wi-fi access 07/04/2004 01:43 PM
Students will soon be able to access the internet from anywhere around their campus, even the student bar.

Universities cash in on IP

Universities cash in on IP 02/16/2004 09:29 AM
Spin-off companies, patents, on the rise

Pitching Universities

Pitching Universities 12/04/2002 09:25 PM
Google's got a new page up, pitching a job at Google to university students. As they point out, the goal of the Google lifestyle was to make it like grad school. (Thanks, Henk!)...

Boing Boing: Plagiarism-seeking IMmer
pranked and exposed -- UPDATED

Boing Boing: Plagiarism-seeking IMmer
pranked and exposed -- UPDATED 04/01/2005 06:41 AM
Plagiarism-seeking IMmer pranked and exposed -- UPDATED .. according to BoingBoing, it's a hoax .. Boing Boing initially cried hoax

boingboing.net/2005/03/29/plagiarismseeking_im.html
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Scots universities 'to disappear'

Scots universities 'to disappear' 04/29/2004 04:21 PM
Universities are set to disappear north of the border, under controversial proposals to be announced by the Scottish Executive.

RIAA Co-Opts More Universities

RIAA Co-Opts More Universities 07/19/2004 06:14 PM

FileWave X 1.5 free for K-12 and
universities

FileWave X 1.5 free for K-12 and
universities 02/19/2004 08:35 AM
FileWave, makers of management software for the Mac, announced recently that they will offer FileWave X 1.5 free to K-12 schools and universities through December 23.

Universities vie to attract students

Universities vie to attract students 03/19/2005 02:40 AM
The BBC's Mike Baker looks at the bursary offers that now differentiate English universities.

Universities: A marriage of convenience

Universities: A marriage of convenience 11/11/2003 08:11 AM
Technology alliances are proliferating in higher education, where companies sponsor research that advances their agendas, and concerns over conflicts of interest give way to pragmatism.

'Global warning' to universities

'Global warning' to universities 09/15/2004 01:53 PM
US universities could soon compete for students in London, a leading vice-chancellor says.

Universities to charge top fees

Universities to charge top fees 03/17/2005 02:54 AM
Nine out of 10 universities in England are to charge the most they can in top-up fees from next year.

Demand for universities 'to soar'

Demand for universities 'to soar' 05/10/2004 07:08 PM
Up to 240,000 extra university places may be needed to cope with growing demand, an independent think tank says.

Universities to build largest telescope

Universities to build largest telescope 08/06/2004 08:03 PM
globetechnology.com Aug 7 2004 0:58AM GMT

Universities Advocating Mozilla Online

Universities Advocating Mozilla Online 12/19/2004 03:24 PM
While navigating to a class website, I found a subtle jab at Internet Explorer followed by Firefox advocacy: Some Windows-Internet Explorer users continue to report sporadic problems when logging in to courses.utexas.edu. One symptom is that clicking the "Login" button on the next page does not do anything. Reports indicate that using a different browser such as Firefox seems to help, as does reloading [the] /webapps/login page. Please contact the ITS Help Desk for more assistance. Know of other university technology administrators guiding their respective communities (online) to Mozilla applications? Speak up.

Wikipedia 'to make universities
obsolete'

Wikipedia 'to make universities
obsolete' 09/07/2004 12:49 PM
Look out, Old Guard - it's the Khmer Rouge in nappies

SAP expands research collaboration with
universities

SAP expands research collaboration with
universities 04/06/2005 06:10 PM
Company gets access to talented researchers and cutting-edge research, while universities can collaborate with a company involved in a broad range of software engineering technologies.

Universities 'must sell expertise'

Universities 'must sell expertise' 08/18/2004 02:53 PM
UK higher education is not doing enough to sell its technology and ideas around the world, a report says.

Universities Learn The Power Of
Collaboration

Universities Learn The Power Of
Collaboration 12/16/2003 12:32 PM
Slowly, but surely, it appears to be dawning on a number of people that building on the works of others often creates something much much better for everyone. Instead of locking stuff down under increasingly obsolete intellectual property laws, a few universities are en couraging people to share and reuse content to create newer and better results. They're realizing that instead of focusing on locking each piece down - which slows the ability to innovate - opening up certain content lets creativity and innovation grow at a more reasonable pace. As people learn how to make productive use of such offerings, it's going to be increasingly difficult to support the idea that our current intellectual property rules do much to help innovation.

Universities applaud fees vote

Universities applaud fees vote 01/27/2004 04:00 PM
The government's narrow victory on tuition fees has been hailed as a "landmark" by university chiefs.

ISC and Universities Provide Hosting
Services

ISC and Universities Provide Hosting
Services 11/10/2003 11:14 PM

Universities collaborate to work with
DSpace

Universities collaborate to work with
DSpace 03/13/2003 10:16 AM

A group of colleges has formed to collaboratively develop MIT 's DSpace , an archiving project for campus digital materials. The group consists of Cambridge , Columbia , Cornell , Ohio State , and the Universities of Rochester , Toronto , and Washington .

DSpace is "an electronic system that captures, preserves and communicates the intellectual output of MIT's faculty and researchers." Anyone may download the DSpace code , which is freely available, along with documentation .

MIT designed DSpace with Hewlett-Packard Laboratories to allow professors to store reports and other research documents in a searchable digital archive. Eventually, MIT officials hope, professors will be able find scholastic research as easily as college students search for MP3's of their favorite music.

DSpace was funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Hewlett-Packard .

(from the Chronicle )

ISC and Universities Provide Hosting
Services

ISC and Universities Provide Hosting
Services 02/10/2004 02:35 AM

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