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"The Plagiarism Problem" by Sean Price "To be or not to be - that is the question." That sentence could make a really snappy opening for any article. But there's one small problem: It's already a famous line from William Shakespeare's Hamlet To borrow these exact words in a school paper without using quotation marks or giving Shakespeare credit would be pretty foolish -- and not just because it's so famous. Passing off another person's work as your own is called plagiarism. And it's a serious offense in any type of writing. Plagiarism [PLAY-jeh-riz-ehm) is the act of using or passing off as one's own the ideas or writings of another. Here are some common forms of plagiarism: • CUT-AND-PASTE — The simplest form of copying is using someone else's writing word- for-word without providing quote marks or giving credit. • PARAPHRASING - The plagiarizer puts another person's ideas into different words but gives no credit. • UNCONSCIOUS - All writers borrow from others without realizing it. That's why it's important to check notes and sources. Unconscious plagiarism is often used as an excuse by anyone who gets caught. Choices & Consequences At one point or another, everyone who writes has to decide whether to be or not to be" a plagiarist. Unfortunately, one study shows that many teens choose to be. More than half of 4,500 high school students surveyed by Rutgers University in 2000 and 2001 admitted to some kind of plagiarizing from the Internet. "I don't think there's a teacher in America who hasn't confronted an instance of plagiarism," says Timothy Dodd, executive director of Duke University's Center for Academic Integrity. But plagiarism can lead to humiliation, failing grades, and even expulsion. So why do people do it? Part of the problem is that plagiarism is not always clear-cut. Writers learn by studying and imitating other writers, so it's easy for some people to go a step further. Instead of just imitating style, they steal key thoughts, phrases, or even whole pages. Many younger writers make this mistake because they don't understand plagiarism's ground rules. And learning these rules can be confusing. For example, sometimes it's OK to borrow a well-known phrase - like "To be or not to be" --- and not cite its source. Someone could start a story with, "To be or not to be on the swim team." That's simply putting a twist on a famous line, not pretending it's yours. Also, it's easy to borrow too heavily from one source without meaning to. Erin Horowitz, 16, of Lake Forest, California, says she has caught herself committing something called "unconscious plagiarism." Fortunately, she knows how to look for this in rough drafts: she compares what she's written with her sources. "I usually go back over my paper just in case something sounds a little off," Erin says. Too Good to Be True Debra McCarrell, Erin's teacher at El Toro High School, says she's caught several students plagiarizing on purpose. All of them stole their information from the Internet, she says. And all of them got busted for the same reason: The writing was too good to be theirs. "It's so obvious" McCarrell says. "You can just tell." Many teachers feel that the Internet encourages plagiarizing. There are roughly 8 billion pages available online - an almost-bottomless supply of free documents. But McCarrell says teachers can usually catch Internet plagiarism easily. She herself simply checks certain phrases in student papers on the search engine Google. A growing number of high schools and universities now routinely run more in-depth checks. John Barrie of Turnitin.com says his anti-plagiarism service scans about 40,000 papers a day. It compares them with Internet pages as well as with books, journals, and other student papers. About one third of the papers scanned contain unoriginal material - and just one plagiarized sentence can be the tip-off. "The probability of somebody writing the same 16 words in the same order as somebody else is less than one in one trillion," Barrie says. The high cost of Cheating Students caught plagiarizing in middle or high school usually get a second chance. But plagiarism in the adult world gets much more serious. College students can fail classes or get kicked out of school. Last May, South Florida's Sun-Sentinel found that a high school intern had plagiarized several articles. The newspaper ran an embarrassed correction, and the girl lost her internship and a journalism award. The Sun-Sentinel incident is not unique. In recent years, plagiarism scandals have rocked The New York Times, USA Today, and dozens of other publications. Most writers involved lost their jobs. Even famous authors have been tainted Alex Haley, the author of the blockbuster novel Roots, saw his reputation damaged by evidence that he had plagiarized. The same happened to best-selling historian Stephen Ambrose. The plagiarism problem can be dealt with in many ways: teachers should be vigilant; students must be aware; and penalties for those who are caught must be clearer. But the best advice for students tempted to plagiarize might be to just relax. Teachers say that many of the worst plagiarists are highly intelligent go-getters. They take on too many classes and activities and then cannot keep up their grades without cheating. Erin Horowitz says most people she knows at El Toro High School would never plagiarize, but those who do tend to be set on succeeding at all costs. "I think that's a big problem," she says. "Most kids have a lot of work to do, and if they can cut corners on anything they will." Source Citation: Price, Sean. "The Plagiarism Problem." Scholastic Scope 54.2 (2005): 16-18. Academic Search Premier. Web. 26 Feb. 2013. "Internet Creates Opportunities to Cheat” by Brittany McCandless Some students from Asian countries, who come from a tradition of not using footnotes or quotation marks in their research reports, know to list sources in the bibliography but learn other ways to attribute information when they get here, according to Toni Carbo, a professor in the School of Information Sciences and the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh. Some African students have different concepts of privacy than Americans, she said. A story yesterday did not clearly paraphrase her remarks. When he assigned a paper on 20th century theater, Carnegie Mellon University assistant professor Michael Chemers was surprised at what a student submitted. A sophomore turned in a paper on Antonin Artaud, a complex playwright and director the class had never discussed, written completely outside the skill level the student had shown in class. C So Dr. Chemers confronted the student. When the student stood by his paper, Dr. Chemers asked him to explain how he arrived at the thesis he wrote. E The student instead explained that he bought the paper online. C While the Internet hasn't created plagiarism, it has contributed new opportunities for violating professors' trust. E C "It's so much easier to just take things off the Web," said Deborah Rubin, director of the social work program at Chatham University. In national surveys of more than 80,000 college students conducted from 2002 until this spring, nearly half admitted they cheated via the Internet, according to researcher Donald McCabe, founder of the Center for Academic Integrity, a consortium based at Clemson University. It's unclear how many of them would have cheated anyway. Dr. McCabe, who is also a professor of management and global business at Rutgers University, said other survey questions showed as many as 42 percent said they plagiarized from written sources, not necessarily the Internet. E The ways included fabricating research citations; submitting work that someone else, such as a peer, has written; cutting and pasting from written sources; and submitting a paper taken all or most from another written source. But Dr. McCabe, who has researched cheating since 1990, believes the volume of cheating has increased E "It's just made it easier so the people who are doing it are doing it more often," Dr. McCabe said. Plagiarism hits at the heart of education. "The entire relationship between the professor and the student is built on trust, that you're honestly submitting your work, and I'm honestly grading it," Dr. Chemers said. "When you violate that, there's nothing left." Dr. Chemers has other war stories to tell about blatant plagiarism. While teaching at Shoreline Community College in Seattle in 2002, he confronted a student who copied and pasted information from a Web site word-for-word into a new document and turned iu in as her own research paper. That student begged for forgiveness and asked for a second chance. This time, she vowed, she would write a paper on plagiarism. She plagiarized that one, too, copying whole portions from another online source. Dr. Chemers' father, a professor at University of California-Santa Cruz, once encountered one student who bought a paper from a paper mill and submitted it as his own. That plagiarism was easy to catch: It was an article the professor himself had written in an academic journal. With students now conditioned to performing their research online, Dr. Chemers said they copy phrases, sentences and sometimes paragraphs word-for-word from Internet sources. Even when they attempt to paraphrase, students often neglect to cite the source, and sometimes purchase entire papers from online term-paper mills. E Dr. McCabe believes his cheating survey may understate the problem. The more serious the coffense, he said, the less likely students are willing to admit they've done it. Likewise, those who did voluntarily respond -- only 15 percent of all possible students polled -- tend to minimize what they've done, he said. And he said some students may not consider it cheating. "When you read the comments students provide, their cheating is everyone else's fault but theirs," Dr. McCabe said. "Their parents put too much pressure on them, or the faculty does ca lousy job teaching their courses or the assignments are too hard. For a lot of students, they've figured out a way to justify it." E In their experience, Dr. Rubin and Robert Alexander, a professor of English and the director of the university writing program at Point Park University, have both found that many students don't consider copying and pasting sentences to be plagiarism. Nor do they find a problem with omitting citations for the sources of their primary intellectual arguments. Dr. Chemers has found that, for some students, the monetary transaction of purchasing a paper online makes it seem legitimate. In his 35 years of teaching, Dr. Alexander has seen a slight rise in issues of academic integrity with the onset of the Internet. While professors tell him about several cases of plagiarism every semester, often in freshman composition classes, he's not especially concerned. "It's not an extensive problem," he said. E Some students may be deterred by the threat of punishment. At most local schools, online plagiarism warrants failing the assignment, failing the course and sometimes expulsion. Dr. Chemers' Artaud scholar was expelled. "But for every one that comes to official status, you have to figure there are 10 that don't," Dr. Chemers said. Many cases, he said, are handled between the professor and the student because the process of addressing discipline on an institutional level can be a hassle. Plagiarism is an international problem, according to a report released this summer by UNESCO, the United Nations' education-and-science agency. The report -- "Corrupt Schools, Corrupt Universities: What Can Be Done?" -- cites a case at an Australian-run university in Malaysia in which 15 cases of plagiarism were overlooked because the university was "concerned with losing revenue from off-shore students." But how do professors know when students have turned in work that's not altogether theirs in the first place? Just as students are becoming more comfortable in using the Internet, so are professors. Faculty at universities throughout Pittsburgh reported using the Internet to catch academic dishonesty in two ways: using Google to search for suspicious lines or phrases in assignments and submitting students' papers to online companies such as www.turnitin.com. At www.turnitin.com, the company puts each document through a search that includes current -S and archived Web sites, a database of student papers previously submitted to the company, and commercial databases of periodicals and journal articles. s The report then tracks each passage of the paper, showing the possible source and clearly identifying unoriginal material. But many times, professors don't even need an originality report. "Sometimes it's easy to spot because you're used to students' writing style," Dr. Rubin said. Like many professors, she gives in-class assignments first to gauge students' writing abilities. Dr. Chemers said he is not only familiar with all of the published material in his field, but he also knows many of the authors personally. c While some American students have a hard time understanding what plagiarism is, it's even more difficult for international students. C Toni Carbo, a professor in the School of Information Sciences and the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh, has found that norms about information sharing are very different among cultures. Dr. Carbo, who teaches information ethics, said in some Asian and African cultures, for example, academics are part of an intellectual community in which sharing information without attribution is accepted. C The Internet also raises more issues for academic integrity in higher education. Some students have difficulty telling an accurate site from an inaccurate one. In a theater history class, Dr. Chemers had a student who submitted a paper on ancient Roman theater citing the proletariat as the cause of the Roman Empire's fall. There's just one problem, Dr. Chemers said. There was no proletariat in ancient Rome. The student admitted he found the historically inaccurate information from someone's personal Web site. Local faculty agree education is the key to stopping students from using the Internet dishonestly Faculty point to the importance of using course syllabi to explain both what plagiarism is and what repercussions are for students who plagiarize. They also teach classes on how to use Internet sources responsibly, both finding and citing sources. He pho Signa ast gi iting ati re Pp 35 in Dr. Rubin gives her students a topic relevant to social work -- such as abortion and poverty -- and assigns them to look up sites on the topic and evaluate the quality of those sites in comparison with scholarly journals. Dr. Chemers, meanwhile, devotes a class each semester to teaching his students how to find which sites are credible, such as the institution that hosts the site and the academic sources the site uses in footnotes. At Pitt, faculty are also taught how to evaluate sites through a series of workshops and training sessions offered through the Center for Instructional Development and Distance Education. Additionally, Dr. Rubin and Dr. Chemers both give specific assignments that are too nuanced or personal to be plagiarized, while Dr. Carbo requires her students to submit multiple drafts of papers, making it easier to filter out cut-and-paste phrases. "[Cheating) is like a chronic disease that you can't cure," Dr. Alexander said. "But you can learn how to manage it and make it as least harmful as possible." S Source Citation: McCandless, Brittany. “Internet Creates Opportunities to Cheat." Oct 16, 2007, (n.d.): ProQuest: ProQuest Central (SRU). EBSCO. Web. 29 Apr. 2011. Cause/Effect Essay on Plagiarism/Cheating What causes students to cheat or plagiarize? In recent years, US colleges and universities have noticed a dramatic increase in the number of violations of students caught cheating. Numerous articles have offered a variety of explanations for why this is happening. Choose what you think are the most likely causes, and write an essay that supports your point of view. It should have: 1. An introduction that summarizes the topic and, possibly, some of the effects of the rise in cheating and plagiarism. This summary may include reference to readings, but it is not required in the introduction. Finally, there must be a clear thesis statement with subtopics that argue which causes seem most valid to you. 2. Three body paragraphs that explain the subtopics (causes) and evaluate their validity. You must use two of the sources we have examined in class (Price, McCandless, or Marsan), and you must use at least one of your own sources. (Note: we'd like you to not use the same source as any of your classmates). Also, each body must have one reference (no more, no less). 3. Your conclusion should restate the thesis and main points and leave the reader with an interesting final thought (ex. prediction, opinion, suggestion). 4. A Works Cited page using MLA format. Note: not for the first draft. Due dates: Body Paragraph 1 (emailed) Intro (emailed) Body Paragraph 2 (emailed) Essay Due (emailed + hard copy) Thursday, 2/21 Sunday, 2/24 Thursday, 2/28 Tuesday, 3/4 Requirements: 750 + words, typewritten on 8 12" x 11" paper, double-spaced (print only on one side). Follow MLA formatting requirements. Your essay will be graded on: 1. Citation - correct use of in-text citations, as well as a correctly formatted Works Cited page. 2. Clarity/Content - your ideas and opinions should be clearly expressed with an academic audience in mind. 3. Organization - introduction, conclusion and body paragraphs with clear topics. 4. Grammar/vocabulary - use and control of basic, intermediate, and advanced grammar. Accurately uses academic words from class. The Causes and Effects of Plagiarism Following the fast growing technology and internet, the significance of plagiarism Hool v Bedfundi has greatly increased among high schools and colleges. According to the statistics on p.org, the survey that Donald McCabe conducted from Fall 2002 to Spring 2011 2 presents the final result of 17% of the population performing plagiarism on test, 40% on what written assignments, and 43% as total on both. Plagiarism is encountered frequently, is playiring with students cutting-and-pasting, paraphrasing, and unconsciously borrowing heavy load of information from others; resulting a series of detrimental consequences such as receiving an F on the assignment/course and expulsion, etc. Many authors have written based on the topic of this serious problem, going more in depth with the causes and the effects. Thesis stalent? Not MLA In the article, "The Plagiarism Problem," Sean Price reflects the seriousness of > credentials 75:- GR - Ret - IS- soluta! plagiarism problem. Nowadays, with easier access to the internet and more documents provided online, students are more likely to take a short-cut and cheat. Teachers often catch students submitting assignments that are too good to be their own work, and take ب) out specific phrases to check on search engines for originality. Luckily, John Barrie of turnitin.com has introduced his anti-plagiarism service to the teachers and students. "...scans about 40,000 papers a day...compares them with Internet pages as we; as with books, journals, and other student papers" (qtd. in Price). The Turnitin website allows individuals to turn in their assignments and scan for originality, greatly reducing the rate of plagiarism. Besides the major problems of plagiarism led by the internet, there are other TS:- problems, and cultural difference can be one of the factors. In the article "Internet credat: I? Def: - Creates Opportunities to Cheat," Brittany McCandless mentions that in other cultures Exp CS:- such as Asian and African, sharing information would not be considered as cheating. In - why capital, fact, Individuals under different cultural influences have different views regarding ownership of the texts. Students often take information from someone else's document and put it in theirs without giving any credits. Because of that, international students may face some difficulties and confusion when they start attending school in the U.S. For solutions, teachers often go over the topic of academic honesty and the disciplines with the class to keep awareness. who is the causer Due to research, many plagiarism cases have shown that students have 75:- Be clea unconsciously plagiarized and most of them have ended up with serious consequences. credalt In the article "Two Students Kicked off Semester at Sea for Plagiarism," by Alison Go, OR tel Exp: - CS س two students were reported to have plagiarized on their essays unconsciously and ended up with expulsion. One of the students have informed that she took only three sentence off of Wikipedia and did not do so on purpose. The author mentions, "She says the three phrases she had taken were "when the Germans attacked the Soviet Union during Operation Barbarossa"; "German-speaking minority outside of Germany": and "who had just been released from a concentration camp." Unfortunately, the honor code enforced by the University of Virginia which was sponsoring the Sea Program, kicked her out regardless of the severity of the problem. In conclusion, the action of plagiarism is caused by many factors and committed in different ways. It has affected and is still affecting numerous individuals all over the world. With this ongoing problem, many solutions were introduced, helping many people and the overall society. Works Cited ? Bibliography: Go, Alison. "Two Students Kicked off Semester at Sea for Plagiarism." U.S. News & World Report, U.S. News & World Report, 14 Aug. 2008, 4.19pm, www.usnews.com/education/blogs/paper-trail/2008/08/14/two-students-kicked-off-seme ster-at-sea-for-plagiarism. Other sources ? . 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The case of the internet and plagiarism
OUTLINE
➢ Introduction
➢ Pressure to perform
➢ The internet
➢ Conclusion
➢ Works Cited


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Cause and Effects: The case of the internet and plagiarism
Introduction
In the last decade, the number of plagiarism cases has been on a fast rise. Students are no
longer interested in indulging themselves into deep research when they could just cough some
few bucks and get their papers done. Thanks to the internet, students are in pole position to get
their work done within a few hours. However, the downside of this strategy is the proved
instances of plagiarism where the source of the content is tested for originality. This failure to
recognize the original owner of the thought, idea or the quote is hugely contributing to cheating
in education and breaking the tradition of copyright in writing. I believe that it is the high time
the issue of plagiarism was taken with the seriousness it deserves. Institutions which condone
such dubious ways of facilitating poor learning should roll-up their sleeves and get the trash out.
Furthermore, the use of the internet should also be limited to strict and thorough checks to
eliminate the high number of avenues ut...


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