Maybe because the angle of the article was that today's students just don't understand proper citation/attribution of ideas due to the "digital age". Purchasing a paper would probably be an act that most student see as unambiguously cheating so it didn't fit the author's point. Of course many of the people cited also did not see plagiarism as having anything to do with a digital age. Marie
**************************************************** Marie Helweg-Larsen, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Psychology Dickinson College (on leave 2010/2011) http://users.dickinson.edu/~helwegm/index.html **************************************************** From: Beth Benoit [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, August 02, 2010 17:44 To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] Plagiarism Lines Blur for Students in Digital Age A well-written article, but I was surprised it didn't mention the more blatant and troubling problem of students buying whole papers on the internet. (I brought this topic up a few weeks ago. It's called "contract cheating.") This is a problem that's a lot harder to detect, but I think even more serious than the "cut and paste" plagiarism. Beth Benoit Granite State College Plymouth State University New Hampshire On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Helweg-Larsen, Marie <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/02/education/02cheat.html?th&emc=th Is plagiarism increasing because of the digital age or is it just the usual story that students are unprepared and lazy? Marie **************************************************** Marie Helweg-Larsen, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Psychology Dickinson College (on leave 2010/2011) http://users.dickinson.edu/~helwegm/index.html **************************************************** --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13105.b9b37cdd198e940b73969ea6ba7aaf72&n=T&l=tips&o=3925 (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) or send a blank email to leave-3925-13105.b9b37cdd198e940b73969ea6ba7aa...@fsulist.frostburg.edu<mailto:leave-3925-13105.b9b37cdd198e940b73969ea6ba7aa...@fsulist.frostburg.edu> --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13234.b0e864a6eccfc779c8119f5a4468797f&n=T&l=tips&o=3926 (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) or send a blank email to leave-3926-13234.b0e864a6eccfc779c8119f5a44687...@fsulist.frostburg.edu<mailto:leave-3926-13234.b0e864a6eccfc779c8119f5a44687...@fsulist.frostburg.edu> --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=3930 or send a blank email to leave-3930-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
