The University of Virginia, in a huge plagiarism scandal, has dismissed 45 students and revoked an additional 3 graduates' degrees for plagiarizing papers. UVA has a similar honor code as military academies, where anyone caught lying, cheating, or stealing is dismissed from the school. Bruce
I have a friend who is taking an online Literature class and the teacher apparently caught several students cheating via plagiarism. I read the "group email" that the teacher sent to all of the students and it was pretty dismal. I'm guessing that there is some sort of a computer program that can detect plagiarism. All of my professors are now asking that we turn in our papers in hardcopy form, in addition to on a disc, which would allow them to use the plagiarism program to detect cheating. I have never plagiarized, have always given credit where it is due and have never paid anyone to do a college paper. Why? I was always afraid of getting caught!!! My My, how times have changed.
me again: " sort of a computer program that can detect plagiarism." See.for instance, www.plagiarism.com
Checking for plagiarism done online is quite easy. One just needs to take a suspected block of text, place it in quotes, and submit it through a good search engine like Google. I was able to trace a student who plagiarized through about 5 web sites and found that not a single word on the paper was original due to the old cut & paste approach. Detecting the plagiarism took a few seconds and tracing the whole paper took about 20 minutes. John
Testing for online plagiarism is very simple. Someone needs only to copy a suspicious snippet of writing and subject it to a competent search engine similar to Google. I once traced a plagiarizer through nearly five web sites, finding that hardly one word on the paper was original, having been cut and pasted. Plagiarism detection took but a few moments whilst identifying the entire paper took hardly twenty minutes. "Bill"
The 'rule of thumb' for field mice, when we lived in the country, was that for every one you catch in your trap, there are 100 more you didn't catch. Wonder if something like this applies here, too?
Personally, the mere thought of plagiarism is abhorrent. Moreover, if I recall correctly, the 'rule of thumb' for field mice, when we lived in the country, was that for every one you catch in your trap, there are 100 more you didn't catch. Wonder if something like this applies here, too?
