In honor of Mike Arnzen’s unmasking of a plagiarist, here are a few recent blog entries on academic dishonesty:
- Blair Hornstine (Plagarizing Valedictorian Kicked out of Harvard) (For those who think plagiarism isn’t serious)
- Worse than a Plagiarist.. a SPAMMING Plagiarist! (what it feels like to have your work appropriated — the evildoers did give credit to the source, but did not ask permission to excerpt nearly the whole thing)
- Online Plagiarism Spotted: What to Do? (A student posts work online and then asks a community what they think… eventually, the work shows up on KairosNews, where I recognize huge chunks of it from another — uncredited– online source. Hilarity ensues.)
- Noted War Blogger Cops to Copying (People don’t like being plagiarized.) See also the Jayson Blair scandal at the New York Times.
- Teacher admits helping students on FCAT
- Hamilton College President Resigns — Plagiarized Welcoming Speech to Freshmen (note — this was the president, not the class president)
- Playing Dirty in the War on Plagiarism
- UVA Professor Nabs 112 Plagiarists (I’d say part of the problem here was the assignment design, and the fact that with so many students in huge classes, the TAs couldn’t compare notes across sections.)
Plagiarism RoundupJerz’s Literacy Weblog)
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One of my favorite quiz questions in a lit class is something like "Which of the following did NOT happen in the novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?"
A) Huck sneaks ashore dressed up like a girl
B) A dog kills a rat during a funeral
C) Jim's family refuses to help Huck
I'll also put in details that are ONLY in a movie version. These questions aren't at all hard for those who've read the book, and the one that is wrong would be obvious -- in the example above, of course, Jim's family doesn't even appear in the book; but if it did, it would most likely help Huck, so item C would seem plausible to someone who knows the gist of the story.
The links to KairosNews weren't reaching their destination...
I love the article from the Chronicle by Vincent More ("Playing Dirty...") which suggests that teachers start creating and posting bad essays online (and start circulating them in the paper mills. The idea is that the papers will be so horrifyingly off-kilter and illogical in their argument than any prof could spot the problem from a mile away. Like, say, I don't know mentioning an episode with a prostitute in Pride and Prejudice or something. Subversive! Dastardly! I love it. -- Mike Arnzen
I initially blogged that one back in March. Guess I forgot to check it before reposting. Thanks.
I would think that since you just posted this today, your links wouldn't already be suffering from link rot? (Teacher admits helping students on FCAT )