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Faculty Guide to
Plagiarism
The University of Alberta
Libraries has launched a new Website "A
Faculty Guide to Cyber-Plagiarism" to help
faculty prevent, detect, and
report plagiarism. "'Cyber-plagiarism" is
the term used to describe the
process by which students either copy ideas
found on the Web without
giving proper attribution, or the process by
which students download
research papers from the Web, in whole or in
part, and submit the paper
as original work. The phenomenon of
cyber-plagiarism is affecting
universities around the globe. The guide
includes links to free and
for-fee plagiarism detection services. You can
access the guide at
http://www.library.ualberta.ca/guides/plagiarism/
"Forget About
Policing Plagiarism. Just Teach" (THE
CHRONICLE OF HIGHER
EDUCATION, vol. 48, issue 12, November 16, 2001,
p. B24) by Rebecca
Moore Howard, associate professor of writing and
rhetoric, and director
of the writing program, at Syracuse University.
Howard argues that "[i]n our stampede to
fight what The New York Times
calls a 'plague' of plagiarism, we risk becoming
the enemies rather
than the mentors of our students; we are
replacing the student-teacher
relationship with the criminal-police
relationship. Further, by
thinking of plagiarism as a unitary act rather
than a collection of
disparate activities, we risk categorizing all
of our students as
criminals. Worst of all, we risk not recognizing
that our own pedagogy
needs reform. Big reform." The article is
online to CHE subscribers at
http://chronicle.com/weekly/v48/i12/12b02401.htm
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