Plagiarism

PLAGIARISM: Rise in student cases attributed to blurred lines of digital world

7 Feb 2012

A rising tide of student plagiarism during her three years as director of composition at Colorado State University left professor Sarah Sloane reeling.

Rise in student plagiarism cases attributed to blurred lines of digital world

7 Feb 2012

A rising tide of student plagiarism during her three years as director of composition at Colorado State University left professor Sarah Sloane reeling. She saw it all: blatant cut-and-paste copying from the Internet; only a word changed here and there, "sort of like Mad Libs"; chunks of material lifted straight from a university-issued brochure.

The dangers of plagiarism

5 Feb 2012

According to Alexander Lindsey, author of Plagiarism and Originality, plagiarism is defined as, "The false assumption of authorship: The wrongful act of taking the product of another person's mind, and presenting it as one's own."