A Serious Issue…

Professor Donald McCabe, leading expert in academic integrity, in a May 2001 study of over 4500 high school students, found the following:

• 72% of students reported one or more instances of serious cheating on written work

• 15% had submitted a paper obtained in large part from a term paper mill or website

• 52% had copied a few sentences from a website w/o citing the source

• over 45% admitted to collaborating inappropriately with others on assignments

Paris Court Hits Galliano with $275K Fine for Plagiarism

Godfrey DeenyApril 20th, 2007 @ 00:27 AM - Paris

A Paris court has ruled that John Galliano “copied” the work of photographer William Klein, and ordered the designer to pay 200,000 Euros in damages, or $275,000.

The ruling by judge Claude Vallet, issued on March 28, but first reported in Paris daily Le Monde’s April 20 edition, decided that Galliano’s advertisements for his own label, too clearly resembled a technique that Klein had developed called “painted contacts” where contact sheet images are blown-up and covered by streaks of brash color.

Definition

Plagiarism occurs when a student, with intent to deceive or with reckless disregard for proper scholarly procedures, presents any information, ideas or phrasing of another as if they were his/her own and/or does not give appropriate credit to the original source. (from Bulletin of Duke University)

Englehart 1981

Simpson 2005

Times business columnist resigns over plagiarism By Michael R. Fancher

H. Dunphy, Seattle Times associate editor and business columnist, has resigned after acknowledging that he has plagiarized the work of other journalists.

"I took careless shortcuts that in the end constituted plagiarism," Dunphy told me on Friday. "I apologize to the Blethen family (owners of The Times), to Times readers and to my former colleagues for the betrayal of the trust placed in me."

Intentional Plagiarism

• Purchasing a pre-written paper • Letting someone else write your paper• Paying someone else to write your paper• Submitting as your own someone else's

unpublished work • Submitting as your own, work done jointly

by a group • Submitting work done by you, but for

another class or another purpose without documenting that it was previously used

• Creating phony citations

Unintentional Plagiarism

• Failure to cite a source that is not common knowledge

• Failure to "quote" or block quote author's exact words, even if documented

• Failure to put cite a paraphrase• Failure to cite a summary

OU student expelled for plagiarizing Wikipedia

By: U- WIREIssue date: 8/25/08

An Ohio University student was left to find her own way home from Greece after being found guilty of plagiarism on a study abroad program at sea.

Allison Routman, an Ohio University senior from Minnesota, along with a student from California Baptist University, were expelled from Semester at Sea, a program sponsored by the University of Virginia, for plagiarizing from Wikipedia.

In Routman's Global Studies class, the first essay asked students to compare a film to lectures in class and port experiences. Routman wrote about the film Europa Europa. After watching the film, she used the Web site Wikipedia to verify historical terminology and an overview of the plot.

Routman's professor suspect-ed widespread plagiarism in the class and offered the entire class the opportunity to make a "conscientious retraction," an admission of plagiarism that results in a zero on the assignment.

"Having not thought that I had done anything wrong, it naturally did not occur to me to make a statement admitting to something I didn't believe I had done," Routman said.

How to avoid it

• Cite EVERYTHING• Only thing that never needs citing is

common knowledge• Paraphrasing

– Skim– Read– Write (without source)– Go back and compare