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Plagiarism Detection in Term Papers, and Essays and Research

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CITATION RULES - Electronic Sources for the APA MLA Styles

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An instructor can largely avoid the issue of plagiarism by giving assignments that require personal knowledge or that compel students to provide regular accounts of their studies.

Plagiarism--find articles, rules, resources, sites, ethics, policies for teachers, including Law, with recommendations on how to combat plagiarism.

If you need a library to search for information and you need a librarian to help you, look at this powerpoint.

Teach Students How to Cite The Source Helping them to write a research paper IS teaching them. Demonstrate how to do basic tasks, then have them do it them during class. Especially when this is something they have never done before, they need time to practice. A workshop is perfect for this - you can circulate and help those with problems. This is particularly true of something as complex as a bibliography; kids have a lot of problems with this simply because different sources are in different formats. Use web resources that help kids build their own citations - citationmachine-east.net, or noodle tools. Break down the work into workable bites. One key piece will be organizing the writing of the paper. Consider using a graphic organizer to help them put it all together.
See the classification of educational objectives, known as Bloom's Taxonomy, which incorporates cognitive, psychomotor, and affective domains of knowledge. While working at the University of Chicago in the 1950s and '60s, he wrote two important books, Stability and Change in Human Characteristics and Taxonomy of Educational Objectives (1956). Bloom's taxonomy provides structure in which to categorize test questions. This taxonomy helps teachers pose questions in such a way to determine the level of understanding that a student possesses. For example, based upon the type of question asked, a teacher can determine that a student is competent in content knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis and/or evaluation. This taxonomy is organized in a hierarchal way to organize information from basic factual recall to higher order thinking. Bloom's taxonomy [1] helps teachers better prepare questions that would foster basic knowledge recall all the way to questioning styles that foster synthesis and evaluation. By structuring the questioning format, teachers will be able to better understand what a child's weaknesses and strengths are and determine ways to help students think at a higher-level.

Teachers | Digital Cheating with cell phone cameras | Digitial Cheating IPod Crib Notes and IPod Dictionary

Schools banning music players mp3 players loaded with study guides and dictionaries are smuggled into classrooms. iPod-ready crib notes published by SparkNotes and iPod dictionaries are published and sold by, iPREPpress, a business that retails reference material that can be viewed on the digital music players like the iPod Nano, which has a screen about the size of a postage stamp and becomes a digital cheat sheet in the hands of unscrupulous students.

CELL PHONES send text messages and photos of exams to other students. Ugh Oh, caught & put up on Utube. Not a good thing when your college finds out.

Schools all over the US are "cracking down on students whose cellphones disrupt classes and make it easier to cheat," For example, Milwaukee's 222 schools just started enforcing an if-you-use-it-we'll-take-it rule "prompted by fights that escalated into brawls when students used cellphones to summon family members and outsiders."
Cell phones with built-in digital cameras and e-mail allow sneaky students to send silent questions and answers to one another right under teachers' noses. Digital Cheaters can alert each other using a signal that is out of range of Adults. They are too old to hear the sound. Confiscate cell phones prior to tests and use C-Guard, which interrupts cell-phone signals within a 262-foot radius. Students have been caught using a computer's spell checker on a test that evaluated, in part, spelling; and listening to iPods with lecture notes recorded on them.

Academic Integrity

 

On most campuses, over 75% of students admit to some cheating. In a 1999 survey of 2,100 students on 21 campuses across the country, about one-third of the participating students admitted to serious test cheating and half admitted to one or more instances of serious cheating on written assignments. No need to visit the library for that copyrighted book now they use google's snippets to write their papers.

Masterpapers.com High School to Dissertation Research Service is a writing company which has been providing its customers with writing and research services for several years.

Digital Diploma Mills
Oh yes, don't foreget to Get fake degrees, fake diploma, fake GED, fake transcripts with actual designs from hundreds of real schools. You're the only one who will know that you have a fake one. Yeah sure!

Students Need to Protect their Copyright
According to this story from Canadian site CANOE Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada is trying to educate graduate students about how to protect their intellectual property and to get credit for what they've done:
Examples include a student not receiving authorship on written work, or having a professor take credit for their work. "This isn't an indictment of profs at all," said Howlett. "It's just to ensure that students' rights are protected in the case that it does happen."
Let's be clear: if a person or entity in power uses the work of someone under its authority without credit or pay, that is an indictment of a system that puts monetary and professional gain ahead of doing what is right. Remember that when you push to control your work, you aren't doing it just for yourself.

Paper Mills

Sources Used for Plagiarism
Lawyers for Boston University are trying to end the sale of term papers over the Internet by filing a lawsuit against eight "paper mills." The lawsuit charged companies including Paper Shack, A-1 Termpapers and paperz.com - which sell essays on academic topics to students - with violating state and federal laws against wire fraud, mail fraud and racketeering.

Cheaters 101 | Teachers | Free Term Paper | Buy Research Paper

Teachers Learn How to Avoid Plagiarism

Students can avoid detection when they pay to have content written for them.

SOURCES FIGHTING PLAGIARISM

RESOURCES FOR HIGHER ED
STUDENTS AND PROFESSORS

TEACHERS MUST ABIDE BY ALL THE SAME ETHICS, LAWS, AND RULES THAT CHILDREN DO!!

CITATION RULES - Electronic Sources for the APA MLA Styles apply to you.

Electronic Reserve - CORNELL CREATES ELECTRONIC RESERVES GUIDELINES
2006 Following a complaint from the Association of American Publishers, Cornell University, working with the association, has developed a set of guidelines to help faculty avoid copyright violations when placing
materials on electronic reserve. The association sent a letter to Cornell expressing concern over what it saw as the common practice of failing to apply fair-use principles to electronic content. Allan Adler, vice president for legal and governmental affairs at the association, said the new guidelines embody the notion that copyright protections apply equally to hard-copy and online material.

Liz Johnson, Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia, provided a chart comparing seven plagiarism detection tools: Turnitin, MyDropBox, PAIRwise, EVE2, WCopyFind, CopyCatch, & GLATT.

Bob Jensen's Threads on Plagiarism Detection and Exam Cheating

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Information on Music law, contracts and deals.
The absolutely original artist is an extremely rare and possibly imaginary creature, living in some isolated habitat where no previous works or traditions have left any impression. Plagiarism in Dylan, or a Cultural Collage?

 

TOOLS

 

Monitor articles against theft.

Get alerted if one of your articles turns up on some Web site that you haven't authorized to run it.

1) you can occasionally use the search engines to look for a phrase from one of your articles.

2) You can use a service like Tracerlock to alert you when your name turns up on a new Web site (for when someone who doesn't know better copies your article verbatim onto his/her site).

3) Spyonit.com allows you to set up a spy that alerts you whenever a specified word or phrase shows up on AltaVista or Northern Light. It's under the "Swiss Army Spies" and it's called PermaSearch. (Spyonit is free but requires a non-intrusive registration.)

Directory of Service Provider Agents for Notification of Claims of Infringement
This outlines an Internet Service Provider's (ISP) obligations if one of its subscribers offers infringing copy online. The statute describes "notice and takedown" provisions, which state that once an ISP receives notice of the infringement, it must take down the unauthorized material.

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Computer Voting Is Open to Easy Fraud, Experts Say

The brand-new touchscreen electronic balloting voting machines can and do cheat you out of your vote.
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