tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3711202640864482160.post5398923708754079259..comments2023-04-02T02:01:35.445-07:00Comments on The Blog of Cinzia La Strega : Academic (Dis)honestyCinziahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16811789307226566072noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3711202640864482160.post-15443397557972311682014-05-16T08:17:32.765-07:002014-05-16T08:17:32.765-07:00Colleges and universities haven't figured out ...Colleges and universities haven't figured out how to encourage students to do their own work in this new environment. The instructors, for the most part, have their heads in the sand, or worse, they're modeling the same behavior they admonish students for.<br /><br />Not only the internet, the world at large rewards unethical behavior, as my colleague demonstrates. Why do your own work when you can pay someone lower down the totem pole to do it for you? To do otherwise is to commit the worst sin of all: inefficiency.Cinziahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16811789307226566072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3711202640864482160.post-1943094491737139302014-05-16T07:13:34.733-07:002014-05-16T07:13:34.733-07:00I learned not to plagiarise after I was offered mo...I learned not to plagiarise after I was offered money as a school student to write someone's essay. I spent so much time agonising over their essay, to give them value for money, that I used up all my best ideas and time and had to watch, in chagrin, as she was publicly commended for her essay, while I got a mediocre mark for mine.<br /><br />It's getting harder to enforce plagiarism even outside the university, because the free availability of things like online newspapers has destroyed the idea of protected information. Look at how many people scoop up online information and then repackage it as a self published book, or who don't understand why it's wrong to download movies from peer-to-peer sites. Astounding. So when you talk about plagiarism to your students, don't be surprised if they literally don't understand what you're talking about, The entire internet is telling them something different.Chloehttp://bodycrimes.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com