What should our goal be? Policing has its costs in time and learning
consequences. I claim the that assignments can be individualized to the
point
that plagiarism is difficult. And if they are incremental they must be
written by the same person(s). It may not be possible to prevent
spousal assistance.
The paper example below could be rejected as incomplete or non
responsive to the assignment. It could be graded zero or must be
rewritten.
I have found these to be more effective, time and otherwise than
charges of cheating
Del
laura kramer wrote:
Because of the length of postings, I'm not including Mikaila's
complete note.
Her posting stimulates a question that I'm very curious about. It
comes out of the second point,
spend
20 extra minutes per paper assignment Googling
I am wondering how many students do the people posting on approaches
to plagiarism have, and what length of paper they are evaluating.
Regarding whether it is hard to detect (and hence to decide to take
the time to search for sources), while some papers are obvious (e.g.,
the paper i got in 1973 on migrant labor in the US never mentioned
Cesar Chavez and the United Farmworkers...so i knew the sources
predated that movement's emergence), others are not. And one can find
one self looking when it turns out no plagiarized source is ever found.
