{"id":1725,"date":"2003-11-15T19:15:23","date_gmt":"2003-11-15T23:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/11\/15\/a-plague-of-plagarism-hits-uk-universi"},"modified":"2003-11-15T19:15:23","modified_gmt":"2003-11-15T23:15:23","slug":"a-plague-of-plagarism-hits-uk-universities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/11\/15\/a-plague-of-plagarism-hits-uk-universities\/","title":{"rendered":"A Plague of Plagarism Hits UK Universities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a1799'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/cheet.jpg\" width=\"203\" height=\"152\" align=\"left\"><\/em><i>This is a real problem for teachers everywhere these days.&nbsp; Moreso,<br \/>\n      I would imagine, in large impersonal classes where the insructor doesn&#8217;t<br \/>\n      have time to get to know the students and their writing individually. In<br \/>\n      my classes, we have seen enough  student writing by the time we<br \/>\n      get to research papers (week 8 of a 13-week semester) that most plagarism<br \/>\n      is easy to detect.<\/p>\n<p>Also by assigning unique or specific analytic questions involving local or personal aspects one can make<br \/>\n        it extremely hard to find a sorce on the internet addressing the same<br \/>\n        issues. However, this requires thought and planning.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>For Anna, 22, a final year student in south-east England, internet plagiarism<br \/>\n        is a natural part of undergraduate life. <\/p>\n<p>        For the past three years, she says, she has been submitting essays bought<br \/>\n        and copied from the internet and passing them off as her own.<\/p>\n<p>        She is currently working on her final-year project and most of the materials<br \/>\n        in the dissertation are coming off the net.<\/p>\n<p>        Anna (not her real name) says she cheats because it is easy to get away<br \/>\n        with it.<\/p>\n<p>        &quot;<br \/>\n        It is easier, because sometimes when you go to the library you can&#8217;t<br \/>\n      find the necessary books or you have too much to read,&quot; she says.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/education\/3265143.stm\">from<br \/>\n            the BBC<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a real problem for teachers everywhere these days.&nbsp; Moreso, I would imagine, in large impersonal classes where the insructor doesn&#8217;t have time to get to know the students and their writing individually. In my classes, we have seen &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/11\/15\/a-plague-of-plagarism-hits-uk-universities\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}