Yes, this is why I thought I would take articles I know I am assigning and
uploading them as if a term paper by me, with all the relevant reference
information included. This way, even though it would seem to be my term paper
that was being plagiarized, any instructor who checks will find that it is
really the original paper.
But again, I am not sure of the 'legality' of doing so, so I have not yet done
this.
Annette
Quoting Ken Steele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That is the weakness of these services; that they cannot tap into
pass-protected data bases, such as PsycArticles. On the other hand,
my understanding is that, for at least Turnitin, all of those
student papers that you had submitted now become part of the
services ever-expanding database. Therefore, any student who
submits material from those sources that had been earlier included
in the student papers should now be flagged down.
One of the ironies of this technique is the following. Say I
plagiarise a paper from a journal and submit it in a course without
detection. Now it is part of the database. You come along and use
phrases from that article in your paper. You will be flagged as
plagiarising from my paper. One weakness of the system is that
whichever paper makes it into the database first is given credit as
author.
For example, I submitted one of my published Mozart effect papers.
The detection software missed that completely but did indicate that
certain phrases were copied from a paper in their database. I looked
at that (student-written) paper and it was clear that the author had
copied phrases from some web site, which in turn had copied the
information from an earlier AP story. This student paper is now the
"author" and the AP reporter and I are the plagiarisers.
A related problem is figuring out the real author. So much on the web
is literally plagiarised from other sites. Health information
(e.g., the definition of obese or the prevalence of obesity) is a
good example of this issue. Some of the student papers cited health
statistics and these instances were routinely highlighted. Students
noted that they had never visited the site indicated and, when I
examined to the site, it was clear that the site had copied the
information from some other site. "Googling" the highlighted phrases
would turn up dozens of sites with the exact same wording.
Ken
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Kenneth M. Steele, Ph.D. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Department of Psychology http://www.psych.appstate.edu
Appalachian State University
Boone, NC 28608
USA
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