TCC 2002 Keynote: Dorbolo

As information technology changes the character of education, new challenges to academic integrity arise. In some ways, cheating and plagiarism are easier than ever. In other ways, the uses of information are radically transformed such that traditional conceptions of academic dishonesty need to be rethought. The key objective of this address is to identify the impacts of information technology on cheating methods, cheating detection and prevention, and the ethics of academic integrity. As a result of this session the participant will gain resources that can be used immediately to reduce risks of academic dishonesty and to check their work for questionable practices. Students will gain resources that help protect their work against charges of academic dishonesty; faculty and administrators will gain resources valuable in attenuating academic dishonesty and upgrading institutional policy.

KEYNOTE ADDRESS

Dishonesty takes many forms and deception is, by character, some steps ahead of detection. Here are some key resources the fill out the character of online plagiarism. The practice we are concerned with here is the use of web-based sources as substitutes for original work in assignments. An assignment writer may copy entire texts or portions of different texts to turn in as their own work. The ease of copying and reformatting text using computers has resulted in a small industry of sites that sell academic papers and companies that sell anti-plagiarism software. The links below provide links to both. The best preventative to cheating are assignments that individualize the task so that copying increases irrelevancy. Strategies for cheat-resistant assignments are detailed in several of the papers linked below. An excellent plagiarism preventative is to demonstrate to students your awareness of plagiarism opportunities (e.g. by providing a list of links and a copy of your institutional academic integrity policy).

ANTI PLAGIARISM SOFTWARE

Programs designed to detect patterns of similarity in text. These are used to screen paper submissions for possible plagiarism.

The Plagiarism Resource Center at The University of Virginia
Freeware text comparison program that uses local databases.
http://plagiarism.phys.virginia.edu/

Internet Essay Explorer
No cost search engine for checking portions of text against web sources.
http://essay.freehomepage.com/

Word Check
Used to identify plagiarism and copyright infringement. A 30 day trial version is available. Windows only. ($95 academic price).
http://www.wordchecksystems.com/

Plagiarism.com
This is the home of the Glatt Plagiarism Service. Two software packages are available: a plagiarism tutorial to teach students to recognize plagiarism and a screener to check student recognition of their own work. The screener program produces an exercise in which students fill-in missing words from the text that they submitted. You may try this with your own text a at the website.
http://www.plagiarism.com

Plagiarism.org
Online service that checks submitted student papers against a large database and provides reports of results. Also monitors term paper mills. Links to articles about cheating online.
http://www.plagiarism.org

Wordcheck
Keyword matching software. Requires local database of papers or texts to match.
http://www.wordchecksystems.com

Integriguard
Compares submissions against a database of other papers and Web sites. A trial subscription for the annual service is available.
http://www.integriguard.com

Eve (Essay Verification Engine)
A web robot that searches the web for matches to a suspect paper.
http://www.canexus.com/eve/index.shtml

Turn It In
Students post work to the website. It is checked against anti-plagiarism. Instructors collect submissions form the site. Subscription service.
http://www.turnitin.com/

INTERNET PAPER MILLS

A selection of the more than 200 sites that are providing and selling papers.

The Kimball Library collection at Coastal Carolina University
A comprehensive site of paper mill links.
http://www.coastal.edu/library/mills2.htm

School Sucks
http://www.schoolsucks.com/

007 Term Papers
http://www.007termpapers.com

4FreeEssays.com
http://www.4freeessays.com/

All Free Essays.com: Student Essay Network
http://AllFreeEssays.com

AntiEssays
http://www.antiessays.com

Essays from the Shadows
http://members.fortunecity.com/smashx14/

Genius Papers
http://www.geniuspapers.com/

Lazy Students
http://www.lazystudents.com/

My Free Essays
http://www.myfreeessays.com/

The Cheat Factory
http://cheat-factory.com

Free Papers
http://alexia.lis.uiuc.edu/~janicke/plagiary.htm

PAPERS & SOURCES ON PLAGIARISM

"Brilliant or Plagiarized? College Use Sites to Expose Cheaters."
Verne Kopytoff
The New York Times on the Web. 19 January 2000.
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/01/circuits/articles/20chea.html

"Plagiarism and the Web."
Bruce LeLand
http://www.wiu.edu/users/mfbhl/wiu/plagiarism.htm

"The New Plagiarism: Seven Antidotes to Prevent Highway Robbery in an
Electronic Age."
Jamie McKenzie
From Now On. May 1998.
http://www.fno.org/may98/ cov98may.html

"Classroom Chronicles: Students Look to Internet for New Ways to Cheat."
Ramon G. McLeod
San Francisco Chronicle. 16 December 1997.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1997/12/16/MN16916.DTL

"DownloadableTerm Papers: What's a Prof. to Do?"
Tom Rocklin
Center for Teaching. Accessed 21 October 2001.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~centeach/newsletter/online/term-paper-download.shtml

"Student Plagiarism in an Online World."
Julie Ryan
PRISM. December.
http://www.asee.org/prism/december/html/student_plagiarism_in_an_onlin.htm

The Instructor's Guide to Internet Plagiarism
Greggory Senechal
http://www.ab.org/gregg/

"Writing-Plagiarism Advice for Lessons."
Apple Learning Interchange.
http://henson.austin.apple.com/edres/ellesson/elem-writplagerism.shtml

Stolen Words (book)
Thomas Mallon
Harvest Book (April 2001)
Amazon.com purchase

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