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Like most institutions of higher education, Lewis-Clark State College is having problems with plagiarism. However, they are doing something about. An article titled Faculty Affairs puts together avoiding plagiarism module has details.
The article notes:
The Lewis-Clark State College Faculty Affairs Committee continues to make a difference in striving for academic integrity in education.
Last year, the committee worked closely with Library Services, particularly Barbara Barnes and Lynne Bidwell, with the goal of providing academic integrity resources and a heightened level of plagiarism education to the LCSC learning community in partnership with Dean Andy Hanson and Kristy Roberts from Distance Learning.
Brian L. Christenson, an assistant professor in Social Work and Faculty Senate Chair, says the hard work of the group has paid off. The committe has put together an information literacy module, “Avoiding Plagiarism,” that has been incorporated into the Student Development Orientation Courses as a standard of practice. Each student is required to complete the module and pass a blackboard quiz designed by Barbara Barnes. Furthermore, the literacy module has been published as a “best practice” example in the book, "The Plagiarism Plaque."
The information literacy module can be previewed at: http://www.lcsc.edu/library/ILI/Module_2A/Welcome.htm
A bibliography of resources on the topic can be viewed at:
http://www.lcsc.edu/faculty/plagiarism_bibliography.htm
Showing posts with label Plagiarism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Plagiarism. Show all posts
Thursday, October 09, 2008
Monday, June 02, 2008
Principal, student punished for plagiarism
Ah, the memories the Naperville Central High class of 2008 will have. The school in Illinois has had the Principal fired and the class Valedictorian punished. Why? Because they both got caught plagiarizing.
The Naperville Sun reported, "Naperville Central High School Principal Jim Caudill isn’t the only one Naperville School District 203 is punishing for plagiarism. During a Thursday afternoon press conference in which District 203 officials announced that Caudill would likely be 'reassigned' due to his admitted transgression, Superintendent Alan Leis revealed that portions of the commencement address delivered by Central’s valedictorian also appear to be plagiarized. Leis would not identify the valedictorian by name, but, in covering Central’s May 21 graduation ceremony, Central administrators reported that Steven “Hankong” Su was the valedictorian for Central’s class of 2008."
I am not sure of what either case of plagiarism is but the video of the commencement is being edited to remove some segments. That probably is a clue as to what happened. I am afraid plagiarism in commencements is fairly common. How many ways can you say basically the same thing? This probably just does not get caught very often.
The Naperville Sun reported, "Naperville Central High School Principal Jim Caudill isn’t the only one Naperville School District 203 is punishing for plagiarism. During a Thursday afternoon press conference in which District 203 officials announced that Caudill would likely be 'reassigned' due to his admitted transgression, Superintendent Alan Leis revealed that portions of the commencement address delivered by Central’s valedictorian also appear to be plagiarized. Leis would not identify the valedictorian by name, but, in covering Central’s May 21 graduation ceremony, Central administrators reported that Steven “Hankong” Su was the valedictorian for Central’s class of 2008."
I am not sure of what either case of plagiarism is but the video of the commencement is being edited to remove some segments. That probably is a clue as to what happened. I am afraid plagiarism in commencements is fairly common. How many ways can you say basically the same thing? This probably just does not get caught very often.
Friday, April 11, 2008
Libraries urged to embrace ICT to stay relevant
There is another news article relating to information literacy coming out of Brunei. The Borneo Bulletin has an article titled Libraries urged to embrace ICT to stay relevant by P. Marilyn. In it Marilyn writes about The Permanent Secretary (Higher Education) at the Ministry of Education, Awang Haji Daud bin Haji Mahmud, yesterday called for a change in the traditional role of librarians or information officers.Here is some of what he said during the speech:
"He said the role of libraries in an academic enterprise is dedicated to maintaining the importance and relevance of the academic library as a place of intellectual stimulation and a centre of activity on campus."
"Though access to information is increasingly decentralised, and computer labs now compete with libraries as campus gathering points, librarians must demonstrate to the campus community that the library remains central to the academic process."
"Information literacy skills and user education should be integrated across the curriculum and into appropriate courses with special attention given to information evaluation, critical thinking, intellectual property, copyright and plagiarism."
"As the profession becomes progressively challenging, we have to ensure professional education of new librarians and re-educating existing librarians with skills and knowledge to support new roles in a Digital Information Age, especially roles involving teaching and library promotion."
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Death for Plagiarists?
Dan Todman at Trench Fever has a chilling (but hopefully not serious) post about about plagiarism.
He writes:
In 1641, William Ward, a Catholic priest, was executed in London:
"He hanged till he was dead for he was ript whilst he did hang & being cut downe his members being cut off & cast into the fire, the Executioner ript him up and tooke his heart & threwe it into the fire which lept out againe & no man toucht it till the Executioner a goodwhile after threwe it in againe, his head and quarters were brought backe to Newgate & boyled & are to be set upon 4 gates of the Citty. "
Anybody who could inflict this sort of suffering and despoliation on another human being was plainly motivated by enormous passion, anger and fear. Yet most historians would consider this too light a punishment for those found guilty of plagiarism.
I agree that plagiarism should be punished swiftly and without exceptions. However, I am willing to stop at failing the student and maybe expelling them instead. This is a nice post with a good explanation of what plagiarism is and why others are outraged by it.
He writes:
In 1641, William Ward, a Catholic priest, was executed in London:
"He hanged till he was dead for he was ript whilst he did hang & being cut downe his members being cut off & cast into the fire, the Executioner ript him up and tooke his heart & threwe it into the fire which lept out againe & no man toucht it till the Executioner a goodwhile after threwe it in againe, his head and quarters were brought backe to Newgate & boyled & are to be set upon 4 gates of the Citty. "
Anybody who could inflict this sort of suffering and despoliation on another human being was plainly motivated by enormous passion, anger and fear. Yet most historians would consider this too light a punishment for those found guilty of plagiarism.
I agree that plagiarism should be punished swiftly and without exceptions. However, I am willing to stop at failing the student and maybe expelling them instead. This is a nice post with a good explanation of what plagiarism is and why others are outraged by it.
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
New Issue of MLA Forum is Available
The newest MLA Forum is now available. Articles include College Students, Plagiarism, and the Internet:The Role of Academic Librarians in Delivering Education and Awareness by Todd J. Wiebe, Personality Psychology and the Workplace by Paula Storm and Susann deVries, and Vandals, Administrators, and Sockpuppets, Oh My! An Ethnographic Study of Wikipedia's Handling of Problem Behavior by me.I wrote the Wikipedia article over a year ago and have an earlier version of it up at my personal site. I would like to thank Pam Eddy, Julie Lorenzen, and Keith Tipton for their helpful suggestions in revising that and earlier drafts of the paper. I did not accept all of the suggestions but I did make changes and I appreciate the time they took to give me feedback.
The MLA Forum seeks submissions for the 12th issue. The purpose of the journal is to disseminate articles of interest to librarians and library staffs of the public, academic, special and school libraries in Michigan. For publication consideration, please submit one copy of a manuscript to: Susann deVries at sdevries at emich.edu. Non-Michigan authors are welcome to submit and I am happy to note that MLA Forum is now being indexed by Library Literature.
Monday, February 27, 2006
Avoiding Plagiarism: A Librarian's View
This is brief paper I wrote several years ago and placed at personal.cmich.edu. That server now appears to be gone forever. By request, I am reposting the text of this essay here.
Avoiding Plagiarism: A Librarian's View by Michael Lorenzen
It is important to give credit to the works of others that you use in writing a paper. Failure to do so, whether on purpose or by accident, results in plagiarism. This is something to avoid when writing not only because it is unethical but also because it can get you into serious academic trouble. Plagiarism is the offense of taking the words, written or spoken, or the ideas of others and passing them off as one's own. You are plagiarizing if you copy exactly a statement by another and fail to identify your source. You are also guilty of plagiarism if you copy just a small piece of work that someone else wrote and take credit for it.
The easiest way to avoid plagiarism is to include everything that you use in writing your paper in the bibliography. In this way, you acknowledge that you are using the ideas and words of others and giving these people credit for their work.
However, citing the works that you use in a paper is not enough on its own all the time. If you quote the words of someone else, be it a paragraph or a few words, you must put quotation marks around what you quote. This lets the reader know you did not write the material in this part of the paper. If you use ideas that are not your own in a paper, but do not quote the idea directly, you still need to acknowledge in the text that the idea is not your own even if you list the work the idea came form in your bibliography. How this is done differs depending on the citing system you are using such as APA or MLA. If you paraphrase someone else's writing, you must give credit to the author.
Full-text resources in the library tempt some students to cut and paste parts of articles directly into their papers. This is OK to do as long as the copied text is put in quotations and cited properly. It is not all right to do this if no indication is made that the words are copied. Faculty are aware of full-text resources and they are apt to check suspicious text in these databases. If you are unsure how to credit something in your paper, ask a librarian or the faculty member who assigned the paper.
It is not OK to turn in a paper that someone else has written either even if they have given you permission to do so. This is called collusion and it is still plagiarism. You will get in trouble if you are caught and so may the student who let you use their paper if they are a student here. If you want to use part of a friends paper in your paper, go ahead. Just make sure you give proper credit to your friend in your bibliography and put quotation marks around quotes.
Another area that is plagiarism that many students are not aware of is using translated material and passing it off as their own work. If you know another language and use this to translate a work into English, this is great. Please give proper credit to the author of the work you translated. Do not turn the work in as your own. It is still plagiarism even if the language has been translated.
Also remember that material on the World Wide Web was created by someone. It is not all right to copy their work without giving credit. All the rules for avoiding plagiarism listed above still apply when using the World Wide Web. Search engines make it easy for instructors to find web sites that are used for plagiarized material.
One common student trick is to get information for book reviews from reader reviews from sites such as Amazon or Cheap Books. While this is easy to do, faculty also know to check these sites out. A simple phrase search on Google will usually reveal the source of the review.
The best way to avoid plagiarism is simply to write your own papers using your own words. Be sure to cite everything you used to write the paper in the bibliography. Put quotation marks around everything you cite. In this way, you will be safe from being accused of turning in a plagiarized paper.
Plagiarism Bibliography:
"Ashworth, Peter et. al. "Guilty in Whose Eyes? University Students' Perceptions of Cheating and Plagiarism in Academic Work and Assessment." Studies in Higher Education. 22.2 (Jun 1997): 187-203.
Bergmann, Linda S. (1994). Academic Discourse and Academic Service: Composition vs. WAC in the University. 1994 Paper presented the Annual Meeting of the Conference on College Composition and Communication, Nashville, TN, March 16-19, 1994, ERIC Document No. ED 371 362.
Bjaaland, Patricia C. and Lederman, Arthur. "The Detection of Plagiarism." Educational Forum 37.2 (Jan. 1973): 201-6.
Bloom, Harold et. al. "Plagiarism: A Symposium." Times Literary Supplement 9 (Apr. 1982): 413-15.
Bowden, Darsie. "Plagiarism (Coming to Terms)." English Journal 85.4 (Apr. 1996): 82- 84.
Bowden, Darsie. "Stolen Voices: Plagiarism and Authentic Voice." Composition Studies/Freshman English News 24.1-2 (Spr.-Fall 1996): 5-18.
Brookes, Gerry H. "Exploring Plagiarism in the Composition Classroom." Freshman English News 17.2 (Sep. 1989): 31-35.
Brownlee, Bonnie J. "Coping with Plagiarism Requires Several Strategies." Journalism Educator
41.4 (Winter 1987): 25-29.
Campbell, Cherry. (1987). Writing with Others' Words: Native and Non-Native University Students' Use of Information from a Background Reading Text in Academic Compositions. ERIC Document No. ED 287 315.
Chaney, Jerry and Duncan, Tom. "Editors, Teachers Disagree about Definition of Plagiarism." Journalism Educator 40.2 (Sum. 1985): 13-16.
Curtis, John. "Cheating-Let's Face It." International Schools Journal. 15.2 (Apr.1996): 37-44.
Davis, Stephen F. et al. "Academic Dishonesty: Prevalence, Determinants, Techniques, and Punishments." Teaching of Psychology 19.1 (Feb. 1992): 16-20.
Dossin, Mary Mortimore. "Straight Talk and Honest Writing." Composition Chronicle: Newsletter for Writing Teachers 10.1 (Feb. 1997): 5-7.
Drum, Alice. "Responding to Plagiarism." College Composition and Communication 37 (May 1986): 241-43.
Fass, Richard A. "By Honor Bound: Encouraging Academic Honesty." Educational Record 67.4 (Fall 1986): 32-36.
Gillespie, Elizabeth L. and Schwartz, Miriam. "Are We Teaching Plagiarism?" NJEA Review 45.9 (May 1972): 26+.
Howard, Rebecca Moore. "A Plagiarism Pentimento." Journal of Teaching Writing 11.2 (1992): 233-45.
Howard, Rebecca Moore. "Plagiarisms, Authorships, and the Academic Death Penalty." College English 57.7 (Nov. 1995): 788-806.
Howard, Rebecca Moore. "Sexuality, Textuality: The Cultural Work of Plagiarism." College English 62.4 (Mar. 2000). 473-491.
Kibler, William L. "Academic Dishonesty: A Student Development Dilemma." NASPA Journal 30.4 (Sum. 1993): 252-67.
Kloss, Robert J. ""Writing Things Down vs. Writing Things Up: Are Research Papers Valid?" College Teaching 44.1 (Win. 1996): 3-7.
Kolich, Augustus M. "Plagiarism: The Worm Of Reason." College English 45.2 (Feb. 1983): 141-48.
Kroll, Bary M. "How College Freshman View Plagiarism." Written Communication 5.2 (Apr. 1988): 203-21.
LoCastro, Virginia and Masuko, Mayumi. (1997). Plagiarism and Academic Writing of NNS Learners. 1997 Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Orlando, FL, March 11-15, 1997, ERIC Document No. ED 409 724.
Maramark, Sheilah and Maline, Mindi Barth. (1993). Academic Dishonesty Among College Students. Issues in Education. ERIC Document No. ED 360 903.
McCabe, Donald L. and Trevino, Linda Klebe. "Academic Dishonesty: Honor Codes and Other Contextual Influences." Journal of Higher Education 64.5 (Sep.-Oct. 1993): 522-38.
O'Neill, Michael T. "Plagiarism: (1) Writing Responsibly." ABCA Bulletin 43.2 (June 1980): 34-36.
Peterson, Lorna. (1986). "But We Did It Together;" Or, Academic Integrity and Misrepresentation among College Students. ERIC Document No. ED 275 281.
Saunders, Edward J. "Confronting Academic Dishonesty." Journal of Social Work Education 29.2 (Spr.-Sum. 1993): 224-31.
Sterling, Gary. "Plagiarism and the Worms of Accountability." Reading Improvement 28.3 (Fall 1991): 138-40.
Stein, Mark J. (1986). Teaching Plagiarism. 1986 Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Conference of College Composition and Communication, New Orleans, LA, March 13-15, 1986, ERIC Document No. ED 298 482.
Tauber, Robert T. (1984). Cheating and Plagiarism: Matters beyond a Faculty Member's Right to Decide! 1984 Paper presented the Annual Meeting of th National Association of Teacher Educators, New Orleans, LA, Jan. 30, 1984, ERIC Document No. ED 240 969.
Thompson, Lenora C. and Williams, Portia G. "But I Changed Three Words! Plagiarism In the ESL Classroom." Clearing House 69.1 (Sep.-Oct. 1995): 27-29.
Waltman, John L. "Plagiarism: (2) Preventing It in Formal Research Reports." ABCA Bulletin
43.2 (June 1980): 37-38.
Whitaker, Elaine E. "A Pedagogy to Address Plagiarism." College Composition and Communication 44 (Dec. 1993): 509-14.
Wilhoit, Stephen. "Helping Students Avoid Plagiarism." College Teaching 42.4 (Fall 1994): 161-64."
Bibliography source, http://cisw.cla.umn.edu/plagiarism/bibliography.html.
Avoiding Plagiarism: A Librarian's View by Michael Lorenzen
It is important to give credit to the works of others that you use in writing a paper. Failure to do so, whether on purpose or by accident, results in plagiarism. This is something to avoid when writing not only because it is unethical but also because it can get you into serious academic trouble. Plagiarism is the offense of taking the words, written or spoken, or the ideas of others and passing them off as one's own. You are plagiarizing if you copy exactly a statement by another and fail to identify your source. You are also guilty of plagiarism if you copy just a small piece of work that someone else wrote and take credit for it.
The easiest way to avoid plagiarism is to include everything that you use in writing your paper in the bibliography. In this way, you acknowledge that you are using the ideas and words of others and giving these people credit for their work.
However, citing the works that you use in a paper is not enough on its own all the time. If you quote the words of someone else, be it a paragraph or a few words, you must put quotation marks around what you quote. This lets the reader know you did not write the material in this part of the paper. If you use ideas that are not your own in a paper, but do not quote the idea directly, you still need to acknowledge in the text that the idea is not your own even if you list the work the idea came form in your bibliography. How this is done differs depending on the citing system you are using such as APA or MLA. If you paraphrase someone else's writing, you must give credit to the author.
Full-text resources in the library tempt some students to cut and paste parts of articles directly into their papers. This is OK to do as long as the copied text is put in quotations and cited properly. It is not all right to do this if no indication is made that the words are copied. Faculty are aware of full-text resources and they are apt to check suspicious text in these databases. If you are unsure how to credit something in your paper, ask a librarian or the faculty member who assigned the paper.
It is not OK to turn in a paper that someone else has written either even if they have given you permission to do so. This is called collusion and it is still plagiarism. You will get in trouble if you are caught and so may the student who let you use their paper if they are a student here. If you want to use part of a friends paper in your paper, go ahead. Just make sure you give proper credit to your friend in your bibliography and put quotation marks around quotes.
Another area that is plagiarism that many students are not aware of is using translated material and passing it off as their own work. If you know another language and use this to translate a work into English, this is great. Please give proper credit to the author of the work you translated. Do not turn the work in as your own. It is still plagiarism even if the language has been translated.
Also remember that material on the World Wide Web was created by someone. It is not all right to copy their work without giving credit. All the rules for avoiding plagiarism listed above still apply when using the World Wide Web. Search engines make it easy for instructors to find web sites that are used for plagiarized material.
One common student trick is to get information for book reviews from reader reviews from sites such as Amazon or Cheap Books. While this is easy to do, faculty also know to check these sites out. A simple phrase search on Google will usually reveal the source of the review.
The best way to avoid plagiarism is simply to write your own papers using your own words. Be sure to cite everything you used to write the paper in the bibliography. Put quotation marks around everything you cite. In this way, you will be safe from being accused of turning in a plagiarized paper.
Plagiarism Bibliography:
"Ashworth, Peter et. al. "Guilty in Whose Eyes? University Students' Perceptions of Cheating and Plagiarism in Academic Work and Assessment." Studies in Higher Education. 22.2 (Jun 1997): 187-203.
Bergmann, Linda S. (1994). Academic Discourse and Academic Service: Composition vs. WAC in the University. 1994 Paper presented the Annual Meeting of the Conference on College Composition and Communication, Nashville, TN, March 16-19, 1994, ERIC Document No. ED 371 362.
Bjaaland, Patricia C. and Lederman, Arthur. "The Detection of Plagiarism." Educational Forum 37.2 (Jan. 1973): 201-6.
Bloom, Harold et. al. "Plagiarism: A Symposium." Times Literary Supplement 9 (Apr. 1982): 413-15.
Bowden, Darsie. "Plagiarism (Coming to Terms)." English Journal 85.4 (Apr. 1996): 82- 84.
Bowden, Darsie. "Stolen Voices: Plagiarism and Authentic Voice." Composition Studies/Freshman English News 24.1-2 (Spr.-Fall 1996): 5-18.
Brookes, Gerry H. "Exploring Plagiarism in the Composition Classroom." Freshman English News 17.2 (Sep. 1989): 31-35.
Brownlee, Bonnie J. "Coping with Plagiarism Requires Several Strategies." Journalism Educator
41.4 (Winter 1987): 25-29.
Campbell, Cherry. (1987). Writing with Others' Words: Native and Non-Native University Students' Use of Information from a Background Reading Text in Academic Compositions. ERIC Document No. ED 287 315.
Chaney, Jerry and Duncan, Tom. "Editors, Teachers Disagree about Definition of Plagiarism." Journalism Educator 40.2 (Sum. 1985): 13-16.
Curtis, John. "Cheating-Let's Face It." International Schools Journal. 15.2 (Apr.1996): 37-44.
Davis, Stephen F. et al. "Academic Dishonesty: Prevalence, Determinants, Techniques, and Punishments." Teaching of Psychology 19.1 (Feb. 1992): 16-20.
Dossin, Mary Mortimore. "Straight Talk and Honest Writing." Composition Chronicle: Newsletter for Writing Teachers 10.1 (Feb. 1997): 5-7.
Drum, Alice. "Responding to Plagiarism." College Composition and Communication 37 (May 1986): 241-43.
Fass, Richard A. "By Honor Bound: Encouraging Academic Honesty." Educational Record 67.4 (Fall 1986): 32-36.
Gillespie, Elizabeth L. and Schwartz, Miriam. "Are We Teaching Plagiarism?" NJEA Review 45.9 (May 1972): 26+.
Howard, Rebecca Moore. "A Plagiarism Pentimento." Journal of Teaching Writing 11.2 (1992): 233-45.
Howard, Rebecca Moore. "Plagiarisms, Authorships, and the Academic Death Penalty." College English 57.7 (Nov. 1995): 788-806.
Howard, Rebecca Moore. "Sexuality, Textuality: The Cultural Work of Plagiarism." College English 62.4 (Mar. 2000). 473-491.
Kibler, William L. "Academic Dishonesty: A Student Development Dilemma." NASPA Journal 30.4 (Sum. 1993): 252-67.
Kloss, Robert J. ""Writing Things Down vs. Writing Things Up: Are Research Papers Valid?" College Teaching 44.1 (Win. 1996): 3-7.
Kolich, Augustus M. "Plagiarism: The Worm Of Reason." College English 45.2 (Feb. 1983): 141-48.
Kroll, Bary M. "How College Freshman View Plagiarism." Written Communication 5.2 (Apr. 1988): 203-21.
LoCastro, Virginia and Masuko, Mayumi. (1997). Plagiarism and Academic Writing of NNS Learners. 1997 Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Orlando, FL, March 11-15, 1997, ERIC Document No. ED 409 724.
Maramark, Sheilah and Maline, Mindi Barth. (1993). Academic Dishonesty Among College Students. Issues in Education. ERIC Document No. ED 360 903.
McCabe, Donald L. and Trevino, Linda Klebe. "Academic Dishonesty: Honor Codes and Other Contextual Influences." Journal of Higher Education 64.5 (Sep.-Oct. 1993): 522-38.
O'Neill, Michael T. "Plagiarism: (1) Writing Responsibly." ABCA Bulletin 43.2 (June 1980): 34-36.
Peterson, Lorna. (1986). "But We Did It Together;" Or, Academic Integrity and Misrepresentation among College Students. ERIC Document No. ED 275 281.
Saunders, Edward J. "Confronting Academic Dishonesty." Journal of Social Work Education 29.2 (Spr.-Sum. 1993): 224-31.
Sterling, Gary. "Plagiarism and the Worms of Accountability." Reading Improvement 28.3 (Fall 1991): 138-40.
Stein, Mark J. (1986). Teaching Plagiarism. 1986 Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Conference of College Composition and Communication, New Orleans, LA, March 13-15, 1986, ERIC Document No. ED 298 482.
Tauber, Robert T. (1984). Cheating and Plagiarism: Matters beyond a Faculty Member's Right to Decide! 1984 Paper presented the Annual Meeting of th National Association of Teacher Educators, New Orleans, LA, Jan. 30, 1984, ERIC Document No. ED 240 969.
Thompson, Lenora C. and Williams, Portia G. "But I Changed Three Words! Plagiarism In the ESL Classroom." Clearing House 69.1 (Sep.-Oct. 1995): 27-29.
Waltman, John L. "Plagiarism: (2) Preventing It in Formal Research Reports." ABCA Bulletin
43.2 (June 1980): 37-38.
Whitaker, Elaine E. "A Pedagogy to Address Plagiarism." College Composition and Communication 44 (Dec. 1993): 509-14.
Wilhoit, Stephen. "Helping Students Avoid Plagiarism." College Teaching 42.4 (Fall 1994): 161-64."
Bibliography source, http://cisw.cla.umn.edu/plagiarism/bibliography.html.
Tuesday, January 17, 2006
Wikipedia Plagiarism Ends Journalist's Career
Wikipedia Plagiarism Ends Journalist's Career. And yet another caught professional plagiarist! This is the first journalist I have heard about being busted for copying Wikipedia though.Here is the report from Slashdot:
An anonymous reader writes "Tim Ryan, a 21 year veteran entertainment columnist for the Honolulu Star Bulletin, was fired yesterday after an investigation revealed multiple instances of his incorporating unattributed paragraphs from other sources. This case is unique in that it was first revealed by Wikipedia after an attentive Wikipedia editor noted similarities between a Wikipedia article and one of Ryan's columns. However he wasn't fired until after other news outlets started to run the story. Sadly, though the Star-Bulletin has admitted to the plagiarism, they failed to publicly acknowledge that Wikipedia was responsible for bringing this situation to light."
I will be updating my plagiarism show and tell presentation for faculty to include this story. I wonder though, if the journalist had written the Wikipedia articles himself, would have copying them for his newspaper been plagiarism or just sloppy documentation?
Friday, October 14, 2005
What's On?
I found out today that I am featured at the "What's On" section of the Central Michigan University Faculty Center for Innovative Teaching Website. It relates to a presentation I gave on plagiarism that is available to view online. It notes, "CMU Head of Reference Services Michael Lorenzen lectures on plagiarism. The presentation examines why students plagiarize, how students find materials to plagiarize, methods for detecting plgjiarism, and ideas for designing writing assignments which are not conductive to plagiarism attempts. It also gives a brief overview to turnitin.com which is a plagiarism detection service which CMU subscribes to currently." Thanks FaCIT.
Thursday, September 01, 2005
Internet Plagiarism
Internet Plagiarism. This is a page I have been working on at Central Michigan University. It has links to resources relating to plagiarism.
This includes a 32 minute video of me conducting a training session for faculty on the topic of plagiarism. I discuss plagiarism in the news, why students plagiarize, how to spot plagiarism, and ideas for designing writing assignments that discourage plagiarism.
The video is not password protected so feel free to take a look if you are interested. Don't try this if you don't have a fast connection though!
This includes a 32 minute video of me conducting a training session for faculty on the topic of plagiarism. I discuss plagiarism in the news, why students plagiarize, how to spot plagiarism, and ideas for designing writing assignments that discourage plagiarism.
The video is not password protected so feel free to take a look if you are interested. Don't try this if you don't have a fast connection though!
Thursday, April 14, 2005
The Plagiarism Blog. I just discovered this excellent blog the other day. It has posts dealing with plagiarism in the news. I have been teaching plagiarism workshops for faculty at Central Michigan University for several years now. I am going to be creating a video presentation for Blackboard this summer. I am sure I will find material that will help me as I try to stay fresh on this topic.
From the site:
Keeping Current on Plagiarism, Cheating & Academic Integrity by Susan Herzog, Information Literacy Librarian, Eastern Connecticut State University
From the site:
Keeping Current on Plagiarism, Cheating & Academic Integrity by Susan Herzog, Information Literacy Librarian, Eastern Connecticut State University
Thursday, March 24, 2005
Writing Center plagiarizes Web site
Writing Center plagiarizes Web site. This story was recently featured in News of the Weird. I am linking to the entire original article from the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh Advance-Titan.
I found one of the unsigned student posts to the story interesting. It reads, "I think its funny that the administration on this campus is ignoring this situation. The Provost won’t take disciplinary action against this professor and neither will Dean Zimmerman. Since the two of them failed to take any action as a student I have a license to cheat in all of my classes. At any other university this professor would have been punished, and for the head of the department to say he’s handling like he would any other student is a lie. Besides shouldn’t a professor who holds doctorates be held to a higher accountability? This situation is ridicules and the fact that the Dean, Provost and head of the English department are tolerant of it is a disgrace to this institution."
If you are in the plagiarism education business, be real careful. A plagiarism charge can be devastating...
I found one of the unsigned student posts to the story interesting. It reads, "I think its funny that the administration on this campus is ignoring this situation. The Provost won’t take disciplinary action against this professor and neither will Dean Zimmerman. Since the two of them failed to take any action as a student I have a license to cheat in all of my classes. At any other university this professor would have been punished, and for the head of the department to say he’s handling like he would any other student is a lie. Besides shouldn’t a professor who holds doctorates be held to a higher accountability? This situation is ridicules and the fact that the Dean, Provost and head of the English department are tolerant of it is a disgrace to this institution."
If you are in the plagiarism education business, be real careful. A plagiarism charge can be devastating...
Wednesday, September 17, 2003
Dealing with Cut and Paste Student Plagiarism
Dealing with Cut and Paste Student Plagiarism I am giving a presentation on student plaigriarism early in the morning of Friday at 9:30 am est for the Lilly North Conference. This is a link to my PowerPoint presentation.
From site: 'Why do students cheat? Some students do not come to higher education seeking an education. Instead, they want a credential that will get them a job. Learning is not a priority, getting a good job at graduation is." Full presentation at: http://www.michaellorenzen.com/plagiarism/lilly_files/frame.htm.
From site: 'Why do students cheat? Some students do not come to higher education seeking an education. Instead, they want a credential that will get them a job. Learning is not a priority, getting a good job at graduation is." Full presentation at: http://www.michaellorenzen.com/plagiarism/lilly_files/frame.htm.
Friday, August 22, 2003
AntiPlagiarism.com
AntiPlagiarism.com This is a site selling a book titled THE PLAGIARISM HANDBOOK: Strategies for Preventing, Detecting, and Dealing with Plagiarism. I am giving a workshop for CMU faculty on plagiarism this fall. I am also going to have an entire lecture dedicated to it for my LIB 197 students. This looks like a good book and I am going to try and get a copy of it. Regardless, there are some good tips for dealing with plagiarism at the site. (As students continue to download music with no regard to copyright, I wonder if this influences their beliefs on cutting-and-pasting the words of others into their papers without regard. These two areas of intellectual property are related I think.)
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