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Articles covering a range of topics on plagiarism, including famous plagiarism cases, plagiarism in the news and topics to help students. There is a list of articles below, or you can scroll down to browse.
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Digital watermarking scheme (off site – opens in new window)
Nina Paley has written an interesting article on TechDirt entitled “Is Copyright needed to stop plagiarism” (opens in new window) which showed up in our news feed.
Nina states that copying and plagiarism are two quite different things, and you don’t need copyright to deal with plagiarism. To make this clearer, she has made a one-minute meme song and video about it. Enjoy.
The benefits (and hurdles) of studying abroad in the UK
Find out whether student life abroad is for you Studying at a university or college abroad can be a fantastic experience, and I would argue that the UK is the best place in the world to go. However, at the same time, it can be pretty terrifying starting a new course in a foreign country … Read more
Teachers make it easy for students to plagiarise
Do teachers make it easy for students to plagiarise? When teachers set assignments, sometimes they make it very easy for students to plagiarise. This is down to tasks being poorly designed, in a way that encourages students to find the answer (for example, on the Internet). Examples of poor task design are: Setting the same … Read more
Plagiarism study – design of a plagiarism detection system
INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of Study ‘Plagiarism is the act of taking the writings of another person and passing them o’ as one’s own. The fraudulence is closely related to forgery and piracy-practices generally in violation of copyright laws.’ (Encyclopedia Britannica, cited in Asim, MEr Ali, HM, Dahwa, A, & Vaclav, S 2011). The word plagiarism … Read more
Plagiarism checkers – do they help students cheat?
An ongoing debate in the academic world is whether plagiarism checkers like plagiarismchecker.net help students cheat, or whether they help students avoid genuine accidental plagiarism. What do you think? Have you ever used a plagiarism checker to help you cheat? Take part in our poll below (you’ll be able to see what other students said as … Read more
Plagiarism checker – checking the web
Plagiarism isn’t the same everywhere on the web… The word “plagiarism’ isn’t as hard to type as you might think. Doing some keyword research this month at plagiarismchecker.net, we thought we’d see where people tripped up. Surprisingly, there are just a small handful of typos, which include: plagarism “plagarism” plagirism “plagirism” plaigarism “plaigarism” [plagarism] [plagirism] … Read more
How to combat ‘custom essay’ plagiarism
Most people will be familiar with the custom essay concept – where a student gives a company their essay question and gets an exact answer back which is written from scratch and fully referenced, ready for them to hand in or “use as a guide’, as the companies would tell you. The essays are written … Read more
Plagiarism in the news: Cylvia Hayes and her copied consultancy report
An investigation carried out by GoLocalPDX into the work of Cylvia Hayes, Oregan’s first lady, has revealed that sections of the Green Jobs Growth Plan: 2011-2019 report that she produced were taken from a previously written state report. Gloria Hayes was paid tens of thousands of dollars to write the report with the purpose of … Read more
Sam Smith plagiarism case finally settled
Sam Smith – know for his vocals on Disclosure’s “Latch”, Naughty Boy’s “La La La” and his own numerous releases – did well at the recent Grammys scooping up four awards that included Best New Artist and Best Pop Vocal Album. His biggest and perhaps most well known hit “Stay With Me” was a contender … Read more
Plagiarism round up
What’s been happening in the world of plagiarism this December This month in the news, we find Yahoo, the publication Biosystems Engineering, WND, Maneesh Sharma’s latest film, US-Israeli author Naomi Ragen and artist Dani King Heriyanto all on the end of plagiarism charges. As if that’s not enough, Lenore Hart has been accused of lifting … Read more
Plagiarism in the news – Plagiarism Checker’s round up
Whenever I sit down to scour through the newspapers to bring you stories on plagiarism, I’m never short of things to write about. I’ve dropped about 16 stories for this edition simply because my article’s already near 2,000 words and despite the slease of these stories, I’m sure the topic of plagiarism wouldn’t keep even … Read more