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Turnitin Faces more criticism

Wed, 28 Feb 2007 09:52:24 -0500

The Daily Motion reports that professors at Syracuse University are beginning to question the effects turnitin.com has on professor-student relationships.

Ectasy of Influence

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 10:38:01 -0500

Jonathan Lethem has contributed a superb, thoughtful essay on plagiarism to Harpers. With regard to plagiarism, he observes "it becomes apparent that appropriation, mimicry, quotation, allusion, and sublimated collaboration consist of a kind of sine qua non of the creative act, cutting across all forms and genres in the realm of cultural production."

Richard Posner publishes The Little Book of Plagiarism

Mon, 08 Jan 2007 08:37:31 -0500

Richard A. Posner's The Little Book of Plagiarism (Random House, 2007) surveys the legal, ethical and practical issues involving "literary theft."

Cheating and Plagiarism continue on college campuses

Wed, 25 Oct 2006 09:13:35 -0400

Lehigh University's student newspaper reports that the number of recorded instances of cheating and plagiarism remains constant, and isn't in fact decreasing.

Turnitin and student privacy

Fri, 13 Oct 2006 09:25:14 -0400

There is a growing concern at University of Buffalo regarding the extent to which the use of Turnitin violates student privacy.

ACRL Webcast: Combating Student Plagiarism

Thu, 12 Oct 2006 14:55:09 -0400

ACRL is offering a Webcast, "Combating Student Plagiarism," on 10/26, 2:00 p.m. EST

The Webcast explores the role of the academic librarian in combating student plagiarism. Lynn Lampert, coordinator of information literacy and instruction at California State University-Northridge will lead this Webcast.

Registration is limited to 60. ACRL and ALA members receive a registration discount. For complete information, including a link to registration, go to: http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlproftools/plagiarism.htm

SJSU Plagiarism

Wed, 11 Oct 2006 11:37:45 -0400

San Jose State Uni has produced a tutorial and quiz to discourage undergraduate plagiarism.

Ivys shun plagiarism detection tool

Wed, 11 Oct 2006 10:04:21 -0400

Bloomberg.com reports that several Ivy League Universities are refusing to subscribe to plagiarism detection resources claiming that, "using software would undermine the trust between teachers and students."

Chicago Manual of Style now available online

Wed, 04 Oct 2006 15:35:52 -0400

The Chicago Manual of Style has gone online. A free trial is available.

KU re-thinks its turnitin subscription

Wed, 04 Oct 2006 08:36:31 -0400

After an outcry from faculty and teachers, Kansas University has decided not to cancel its subscription to a popular online tool for spotting plagiarism.

In a surprising development, iParadigms appears uncharacteristically sensitive to the matter of intellectual property in their dealings with the unversity:

Because Turnitin.com retains student papers, the service has raised intellectual property and copyright issues. . . .

New policy @ UCSB to address academic dishonesty

Tue, 03 Oct 2006 08:35:35 -0400

The University of California Santa Barbara Academic Senate recently ruled "that faculty members had to report academic misconduct to the Office of Student Academic Affairs, as opposed to personally dealing with the situation." To assist them in this new policy "staff and faculty are being trained on a new online system that will make it easier to report academic dishonesty infractions."

York University: Academic Integrity Tutorial

Mon, 02 Oct 2006 15:22:57 -0400

York University has designed an academic integrity tutorial that helps students understand "plagiarism and related matters with case examples and positive strategies."

Cheating and MBA programs

Mon, 02 Oct 2006 14:00:57 -0400

In a recent survey, Donald McCabe has found that "more than half of graduate business students nationwide admitted to cheating on MBA exams." According to McCabe:

“I think students cheat because of the characteristics of the business schools themselves,” McCabe said. “It’s all about getting power, money and taking shortcuts.”

Fifty-six percent of graduate business students admitted to cheating, McCabe added, while only 47 percent of their non-business counterparts confessed to it.

HS students question legality of Turnitin

Sun, 24 Sep 2006 22:48:07 -0400

Students at McLean HS in Fairfax County, VA, question their school's use of Turnitin:

Members of the new Committee for Students' Rights said they do not cheat or condone cheating. But they object to Turnitin's automatically adding their essays to the massive database, calling it an infringement of intellectual property rights.

Decrease in cheating @ Duke

Fri, 22 Sep 2006 10:32:34 -0400

A recent survey attributes decrease in cheating to Duke University's honor code, which was introduced in 2003.

The latest figures, gathered last fall from more than 2,000 students and 300 faculty members, show a drop in plagiarism from 38 percent in 2000 to 26 percent last year, while unauthorized collaboration -- students working together when individual work was required -- dropped from 45 percent to 29 percent.