Plagiarism and the

Technology to Help
Avoid It
Bobby Graves
Dr. Finelli
EDU 520

What does it mean to Plagiarize?

Plagiarism isthe act of stating or implyingthat another persons work is your own.You commit

plagiarism if you:
a.
Submit a paper to be graded or reviewed that you have not written on your own.
b.
Copy answers or text from another classmate and submit it as your own.
c.
Quote or paraphrase from another paper without crediting the original author.
d.
Cite data without crediting the original source.
e.
Propose another authors idea as if it were your own.
f.Fabricating references or using incorrect references.
g.
Submitting someone elses presentation, program, spreadsheet, or other file with only minor alterations.
h.
Forgetting to simply put quotes or a parenthetical around a quote or paraphrase
i.Omitting citation when you have used your exact words in another piece of work and you use them
again
(Penn State)

Spongebob Squarepants

Do you feel that Plagiarism is lying?

TED Talk Video on Lying
As stated in the video, there are many people who lie on a
daily basis. If you think about it, plagiarism is lying because
you are saying that you are using your own ideas, even
though they are the ideas of someone else. Why do we do
this as a society?

Did you Know?

Fun statistics- Schools.com

How can you detect plagiarism?

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(#1)Plagiarism and Technology: A Tool for Coping With

Plagiarism

Method
DAVID F. MARTIN
We used the Turnitin.com
Murray State University
online plagiarism detection
Murray, Kentucky
system to evaluate graduate
student research papers for
plagiarism. Students were
advised that their papers
would be screened for
plagiarism by a computer
system and that their
grades would be reduced if
plagiarism was detected. We
evaluated papers submitted
to the system by using the
computer-generated
plagiarism reports. We
recorded the additional time
and effort required to use
the system so we could
evaluate it at the end of the
data collection process.

Table 1
Amount of Plagiarism by Semester Papers
Semester No. Mean %
SD
1st
39
6.31
11.75
2nd
42
3.31
10.06
3rd
12
1.79
3.25
4th
12
1.83
3.13
5th
24
1.50
2.37
Note. Mean % is the mean of the percentage of plagiarized words in each
document

In Table 1, we summarize the overall results of screening

and evaluating the student research papers for the 5
semesters. We found that nearly 50% of the papers
contained some amount of plagiarism. Although we did
not find plagiarism in 18 of the 39 papers submitted
during the 1st semester, the amount of plagiarism in the
remaining 21 papers varied greatly, ranging from 5% to
over 50% of the words. Moreover, we manually checked

(#2)Why Learners Choose Plagiarism: A Review

of Literature Deanna Klein
Minot State University,
1. In some cases, the learners Minot, North Dakota, USA
The internet allows students to simply copy and
have received ambiguous or
paste another's work so easily. It is difficult to
conflicting education on
exactly determine how common plagiarism is, but
plagiarism.
it is simple to find many paper mill sites easily
2. In other cases it is social
accessible for students everyday.
identity where learners are
comparing themselves to
WOW!
others.
One anonymous writer told his story about how
3. If learners perceive
everyone to be a cheater or he makes a living writing papers for students. In
the past year, Dante estimates he has written
perceive faculty not to care
roughly 5000 pages of scholarly literature for
about plagiarism, their
subjects that vary widely and include subjects such
perception on plagiarism may
as history, cinema, labor relations, and ethics.
be skewed.
Dante has worked for an online company that
(Klein)
generates tens of thou- sands of dollars a month
by writing for cheating students. These students
are willing to pay a handsome fee for a quick turnaround and for Dante to follow their specific

(#3) Digital Plagiarism: The Role of Society and Technology

Using the Internet to copy and paste
information out of online works and
into word-processed research papers
has become known as cyberplagiarism, or as some English
teachers like to call it patchwork
plagiarism. A 2003 study conducted
at 23 college campuses by the Center
for Academic Integrity, found that 38
percent of undergraduate students
had used the Internet for plagiarizing
work in one or more instances in the
past year. Cyber-plagiarism is not just
limited to college either. A 2001
Center for Academic Integrity survey
of 4,500 high school students found
more then half had copy and pasted
or downloaded material for use in
their own work. (Kennedy)

Ryan Kennedy
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington

At the University of Virginia in 2000, 122

students from an introductory physics
course were accused of cheating on their
term papers by plagiarizing work from
the Internet. These 122 students were
caught only because of the application of
a computer program. Set up by the
student's professor, this program and
other programs like it are able to match
strings of text from students' papers to
similar text in potential source works.
(Kennedy)

What is
wrong with
this?
Please take
a minute
and try to
figure out
why this
might be
considered
plagiarism.

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