http://www.edtags.org/ http://www.edtags.org/css/EdTags.jpghttp://www.edtags.org/bookmarks.php/all/plagiarism Recent bookmarks posted to Edtags.org 60 http://www.plagiarismchecker.com/ mriggins14 Mon, 02 Jun 2008 22:02:55 +0000 plagiarism http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=2068 Rutgers University's Paul Robeson Library has produced a four-part video that tells students not to steal one another's work and warns them that they could receive a failing grade from a course or be expelled from the university if they are caught. It's a serious message but an amusing video, with a photograph of a bobblehead professor speaking in an exaggeratedly schoolmarmish tone to students, represented by 1950s-style headshots, who respond with gasps and bulging eyeballs katiebda Tue, 05 Jun 2007 23:31:58 +0000 may07 authorship plagiarism intervention http://education.indiana.edu/~frick/plagiarism/index2.html digizen Sat, 02 Jun 2007 12:59:32 +0000 plagiarism http://education.indiana.edu/~frick/plagiarism/ digizen Sat, 02 Jun 2007 12:59:32 +0000 plagiarism http://www.consumerist.com/consumer/plagiarism/designer-todd-goldman-accused-of-rampant-plagiarism-255241.php Todd Goldman, (of David and Goliath tees ) the "designer" responsible for those "attitude" T-shirts that feature crude drawings with slogans such as "Boys are dumb throw rocks at them," has been accused of selling slightly modified tracings of another artist's cartoon. Sadly for Todd, lots of his "designs" are starting to look... familiar. Todd's lawyers are currently negotiating with the artist he ripped off (above) and there's been some apologizing and what not. pham Thu, 26 Apr 2007 23:10:00 +0000 internet t-shirts e-commerce copyright plagiarism http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/02/0081387 "Any text is woven entirely with citations, references, echoes, cultural languages, which cut across it through and through in a vast stereophony. The kernel, the soul—let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all human utterances—is plagiarism. If we cut-and-paste our selves, might we not forgive it of our artworks? katiebda Tue, 24 Apr 2007 04:53:49 +0000 february07 fortrustteam undecided plagiarism copyright http://www.wired.com/culture/culturereviews/news/2007/04/lethemprofile Over the course of Jonathan Lethem's new indie rock novel, You Don't Love Me, we discover that none of Monster Eyes' songs come from one author. They're cobbled together out of pop culture, history, conversations & the ephemera of everyday life. One character tries to claim copyright on the songs after contributing some lyrics, and Lethem characterizes his actions as "manipulative" and "bullying." katiebda Tue, 24 Apr 2007 04:32:56 +0000 april07 copyright plagiarism authorship ownership fortrustteam undecided http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/28/AR2007032802038.html?hpid=sec-education Two McLean High School students have launched a court challenge against a California company hired by their school to catch cheaters, claiming the anti-plagiarism service violates copyright laws. "You can't take a person's work and run it through a computer and make an honest person out of them," Wade said. "My son's major objection is that he does not cheat, and this assumes he does. katiebda Wed, 11 Apr 2007 04:59:29 +0000 march07 plagiarism cheating privacy authorship ownership undecided http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/23/AR2007032301612_pf.html As kids today plagiarize more & more from the Internet...It's time for schools & educators to recognize the truth: The term paper is dead. The problem isn't due to a dramatic decline in young people's moral character, nor the rise of the Internet & its endless bounty. The problem is that schools have relied too long & too heavily on the paper as the most significant method of evaluating students. katiebda Thu, 05 Apr 2007 07:38:05 +0000 april07 trustteam authorship plagiarism undecided http://labnol.blogspot.com/2006/07/dealing-with-website-plagiarism-when.html fceblog Wed, 04 Apr 2007 20:10:37 +0000 plagiarism copyright http://www.slate.com/id/2157435/fr/rss/ This blog entry argues that we react so intensely against plagiarism for 2 primary reasons: 1) we value originality & creativity (that's why we tolerate Shakespeare's creative "copying") 2) we value a just distribution of labor (it's not fair for someone to get credit for someone else's hard work). Other considerations: our market economy values individualism; Americans value myth of hard work. katiebda Thu, 08 Feb 2007 06:35:29 +0000 january07 notadded ownership plagiarism ontrustteam http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/1735/a-second-chance-for-plagiarists Instead of suspending or expelling students found guilty of plagiarism, the Arizona college will try to rehabilitate offenders by putting them through a five-step "traffic school," reports the Tucson Citizen. The program requires students to read articles about plagiarism, write a paper explaining what they did wrong, and meet with a writing tutor to learn about proper scholarly citations. trustteam Thu, 30 Nov 2006 23:34:56 +0000 students ethics plagiarism