Archive for 'Plagiarism'
Digital Natives, Scholarly Immigrants?
While browsing through my table of contents alerts recently I came across an interesting article in the current issue of the Journal of Higher Education: “University Students’ Perceptions of Plagiarism,” by Lori G. Power (unfortunately behind the paywall at Project Muse). It’s a happy coincidence to come across this article now, as plagiarism has been [...]
Posted by Maura Smale on November 29th, 2009 under Information Ethics, Plagiarism, Student Issues, Worth Reading.
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Reuse, Remix, Regret
An article in the Washington Post today raises an issue that is bedeviling colleges and universities. Where do you draw the line on plagiarism?
In this case, a student was expelled from a summer program abroad because, when writing about a film, his professor thought he inappropriately paraphrased his summary of the film from a [...]
Posted by Barbara Fister on August 10th, 2008 under Information Ethics, Plagiarism, Student Issues, Uncategorized.
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But I didn’t know I was plagiarizing…
I’ve recently been assigned the task of developing an open-to-all workshop on avoiding plagiarism. It got me thinking about when I first heard of the concept of plagiarism. I don’t remember it being discussed much, if at all, in high school, but citing sources must have been mentioned at some point, because I asked for [...]
Posted by Melissa Mallon on November 14th, 2007 under Plagiarism.
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Definitely Not Fair Use
An interesting (and sad) story is developing around some piano recordings of Joyce Hatto. Although most copyright gurus today rightfully protest the sometimes absurd expansion of copyright and intellectual property laws, I don’t think anyone would support someone’s re-recording entire classic piano performances, putting their own name on them, and selling them, which is [...]
Posted by Marc Meola on February 27th, 2007 under Copyright, Plagiarism, Technology Issues.
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