PLAGIARISM ON CAMPUS

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PLAGIARISM ON CAMPUS
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Most Students Say Plagiarism Is Wrong
According to a 2002 survey, 90 of college
students strongly view acts of Plagiarism as
unethical!
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Warning These happy statistics, don't
accurately capture the reality of ordinary
college life.
Patrick M. Scanlon and David R. Neumann,
Internet Plagiarism Among College Students.
Journal of College Student Development, May/June
2002.
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Saying something is wrong is apparently not
always enough to prevent you from doing it.

• In a survey of 18,000 U.S. college students in
  2003 (CQ 9/03)
• 40 said they had plagiarized using conventional
  books, journals and other sources.
• In a 2002 national survey by Rutgers' Management
  Education Center of 4,500 students
• More than half have plagiarized work they found
  on the Internet.

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While it is easy to say that plagiarism is wrong,
it is also easy to plagiarize

• 38 admitted to one or more instances of
  Internet- cut-and-paste (Rutgers Study)

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There are certain pressures, which can lead to
one plagiarizing the work of another
EXCUSES
Educators say todays students dont understand
what plagiarism is or dont consider it as
serious cheating
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Many blame plagiarizing on the pressures of
deadlines
Plagiarism in the News
NEW YORK (CNN) -- Facing accusations that she is
guilty of plagiarism, historian Doris Kearns
Goodwin has decided not to participate as a judge
for this year's Pulitzer Prizes. (CNN.com March
5, 2002)
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• 1.It has always been
• an issue in society.
• Some cultures
• take it more seriously
• than others.
• The Internet has
• made more information
• available and therefore
• the problem is bigger
• than ever before.

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What is Plagiarism?

• There are basically 3 types of plagiarism
• deliberate, when a student takes the work of
  another and claims it is his or her own.
• Gray area, when a student, fails to cite
  anothers work and its unclear as to whether it
  was intentional or accidental.
• Accidental, when a source has been cited
  incorrectly.

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Deliberate Plagiarism
Accidental Plagiarism

• cutting pasting from the Internet
• having someone else write your paper
• buying a paper

• Paraphrasing incorrectly
• Not citing consistently
• not citing accurately
• recycling an old paper

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Paraphrasing Issue
Paraphrasing has to do with the sequence of
ideas, the arrangement of material, the pattern
of thought Good Site to learn more
http//owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_
quotprsum.html
Use your own words when you paraphrase, dont
just move things around
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PLAGIARIZED
Because . Since
child care facilities... facilities
for child care
and ... also
Example based on http//myphlip.pearsoncmg.com/cw/
mpviewie.cfm?vieid1547vbcid1669 original text
from Elaine Tyler May's "Myths and Realities of
the American Family"
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Citing Issue
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There are certain pressures, which can lead to
one plagiarizing the work of another

• Pressures of a College Student
• Academic Pressure to excel in school, sports,
  and life in general
• Time pressures makes
• the Internet an alluring alternative
• Insecurity about the subject and note knowing how
  to write a college paper.