University Report On Dealing With Plagiarism... Plagiarized!
from the how-about-that... dept
Been meaning to write this one up for a bit, and finally got to it. Michael Scott points us to an amusing story about how Southern Illinois University was dealing with some plagiarism problems and decided to put out a report on how to deal with plagiarism. That report included a nice description of plagiarism that turned out to be (you guessed it) plagiarized. Hopefully that makes Southern Illinois University rethink its position on plagiarism... but that seems unlikely.![Hide This Hide this](https://ii.techdirt.com/s/t/i/topclose.png)
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Turnitin
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If you were to try to test your theory you're going to find that their programs are essentially making a commentary or report about your papers, putting it under fair use. That will contain the word count, sentence count, an analysis of your paper using synonyms, etc. and you'll find you wasted a lot of time and energy on nothing.
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When is plagiarism not plagiarism? When it's referenced.
When it's quoted in a public document without permission, there may be a copyright issue: but that's a quite separate argument!
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Thay are profiting from student work
There entire bussiness model is based on schools giving them papers, making a perfect copy and then checking there mass database of papers for copys both small phrases to entire papers.
The worst part is that in some schools, students are REQUIRED to have there work put into this database as part of an english class. This is because the company has lobyed schools to use there service, expanding the database, and making the cycle continue.
Just because there not selling the papers does not mean there not making a profit from your work. Because thay are selling access to there database of papers which now includes your paper.
Really we (students) just want to be able to remove out papers from the database. Right now the only way to do that is a lawsuit.
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Report on plagiarism...plagiarized!
Though, upon reading what the article actually said, it wasn't as funny. Still funny, but not as funny as I thought. What I thought, was that the report had been plagiarized, which as you can see, is hilarious. But, the fact that the report on plagiarism committed plagiarism is also funny.
Good headline choice.
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