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Plagiarism Detection in Term Papers, and Essays and Research

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"An idea can transform the world & rewrite all the rules. Which is why I have to steal it" ~ anon

Student Cheaters

Must Know Your
Fire Use Rights

Cutting and pasting a few sentences at a time from the Internet is NOT cheating, This is FAIR USE. You simply need to cite the source.
NYT, To Stop Cheats, Colleges Learn Their Trickery By TRIP GABRIEL 7/6/2010 nytimes.com/2010/07/06/education/06cheat.html

 

Example: Post writer suspended for plagiarism
Washington Post / March 17, 2011
The Washington Post suspended one of its most seasoned reporters yesterday after editors determined that “substantial'' parts of two recent news articles were taken without attribution from another newspaper. Sari Horwitz, a longtime Post investigative reporter, was suspended for three months for plagiarizing sections of stories that first appeared in The Arizona Republic.


A Double Standard - Lawyers never cite the source they just use it.
Corynne McSherry of the Electronic Frontier Foundation handles copyright cases regularly. She notes that, while legal documents are copyrighted, "it is common for lawyers to 'borrow' language from other filings and rare for another lawyer to complain about it. For example, we saw language from our class action complaint in the Sony rootkit case replicated in other Complaints. Taking too much, however, is frowned upon."
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/10/copied-pleadings-show-theres-no-honor-among-antipiracy-lawyers.ars

CITATION RULES - Electronic Sources for the APA MLA Styles

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.

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

M.M.S. REGULATORS - CHEATERS WHO LEAD BY EXAMPLE
BP took the ultimate gamble. They avoided the legally-required checks on safety, and lied about environmental impacts. They cozied up with regulators and the M.M.S. It has been reported that In the moments leading up to the disaster, BP may have put profits before safety. Now 11 workers are dead, and wetlands critical to the stability and endurance of the gulf coastline may be damaged beyond all hope. BP gambled with OUR future, and what was lost can never be regained. BP should be obligated to take full responsibility for damages and losses caused by their flagrant disregard for the rule-of-law. This will send an important message to other high-stakes gamblers, that Uncle Sam expects you to play by the rules, and won't bail out any cheaters. Jon Stubbs Lafayette

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.

Out and out cheating is a huge problem.
Math Assignments have been posted on Chinese websites where students pay money for solutions. There is a fine line between "collaboration" and cheating, and that line isn't always apparent to 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.

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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

 

Turn It In now used by 9,500 high schools and colleges. LEARN ABOUT TURN IT IN AND GET LESSON PLANS Turnitin have tried many tricks, some described in blogs and videos. One is to replace every "e" in plagiarized text with a foreign letter that looks like it, such as a Cyrillic "e," meant to fool Turnitin's scanners. Another is to use the Macros tool in Microsoft Word to hide copied text. Turnitin says neither scheme works.

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.

The US-based CrossRef, a non-profit membership association for publishers, has created a database of 20 million academic papers. Publishers of journals will be able to run an academic's submission through the database and discover whether there are matches with already published papers. The database, known as CrossCheck, covers a wide range of articles,

Fake Degrees - 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!

HomeWork Answers

 

Course Hero, homework sharing, where students from more than 3,500 institutions upload papers, class notes and past exams.

Cramster, specializes in solutions to textbook questions in science and engineering. Answers from 77physics textbooks.

Insider look at how this is done

 

 

Online Degree Bubble Downgraded to 'Junk' status.
http://chronicle.com/article/The-Shadow-Scholar/125329/
Ed Dante, The Shadow Scholar is a ghostwriter for a custom-essay company, drafting paper after paper for students who can't complete them on their own. He writes undergraduate papers and graduate theses, proposals ... whatever: "The subject matter, the grade level, the college, the course--these things are irrelevant to me." "I work at an online company that generates tens of thousands of dollars a month by creating original essays based on specific instructions provided by cheating students. I've worked there full time since 2004. On any day of the academic year, I am working on upward of 20 assignments. In the midst of this great recession, business is booming. At busy times, during midterms and finals, my company's staff of roughly 50 writers is not large enough to satisfy the demands of students who will pay for our work and claim it as their own. ... I will make roughly $66,000 this year. Not a king's ransom, but higher than what many actual educators are paid. ...
The New York Times reported that 61 percent of undergraduates have admitted to some form of cheating on assignments and exams. ... [P]art of my job is to be whatever my clients want me to be. I say yes when I am asked if I have a Ph.D. in sociology. I say yes when I am asked if I have professional training in industrial/organizational psychology. I say yes when asked if I have ever designed a perpetual-motion-powered time machine and documented my efforts in a peer-reviewed journal." In the higher education cheating mill article, The Shadow Scholar said not only that he made his money by defrauding colleges and universities, but that eventually he realized that he had to become a liar himself in order to lure and retain clients, by presenting himself with credentials that he had not earned.
He argues that his ghostwritten papers are simply grist for the degree-mills - the kinds of schools currently under investigation by the federal government for fraud - and laments the "focus on evaluation over education" which he says made his college experience a "tremendous disappointment."
It certainly seems true that, just as the banks fueled the mortgage bubble, so colleges are fueling a degree bubble. Dante's job is made possible by colleges determined to feed America's increasing addiction to credentials and certifications. And other academic ghostwriters agree that, just as foreign demand for a piece of the American housing market fueled the mortgage bubble and led to widespread mortgage fraud, so foreign demand for American degrees is leading to corruption in the way degrees are granted.
Teachers aren't paying close attention. "My customers are your students,"
he says. "I promise you that. Somebody in your classroom uses a service that you can't detect, that you can't defend against, that you may not even know exists."
Suggests:
All that is required is for teachers to get involved in their students' writing process.  I often teach freshman courses, and I assign short papers to students (3 to 4 pages) every two weeks.  On Fridays, I schedule 30-minute editing sessions with each one, making for a long day of revision, but a productive one.  We go over commas
and verbs and syntax and transitions, sentence by sentence and word by word.
With that much focus on the composition, students won't risk the exposure.  They know they can't pass off someone else's prose as their own when under the microscope.  Moreover, because they have a rough draft to do first, they don't put the final version off to the night before it's due, and hence don't suffer the discombobulating need to find someone else to do it.
Technology can certainly be the enabling factor for teachers, students, and budget folks alike, for instance, Skype serving almost as well as face-to-face. The convenience factor is often the prime reason for failed office visits. Face-to-face questioning about and editing of a student's prose prevents them from submitting someone else's work as a rough draft. If you ask questions such as, "Why that verb?" and "What transition do we need here?" and you're attentive, any fraudulence will surface.

Paper Mills Students find papers and 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.

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Teachers Learn How to Avoid Plagiarism

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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.

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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?

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Students Need to Protect their Copyright
Graduate students must learn 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."

Graduate Student: Intellectual Property Guidelines (PDF)

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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