Academic Plagiarism

Kyle Lynch-Kurzawa

What to cover.

• What?• How?• Why?

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Definition:

The practice of taking someone else’s work or ideas and passing them off as one’s own.

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How plagiarism is detected.

By hand and by using software. CC BY-SA 2.0olarte.olliee

Steps to detection.

• Read in paper.• Pick out suspicous parts.• Test suspisous parts.• Output results to user.CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

siette

Machine vs. Human• Fast.• Expensive to

implement.• Needs a human to take

final decision.

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Machine vs. Human 2

• Slow.• Efficient (you can instantly remember a

particular phrase from a book).• Can check if students have taken material from

lecture notes that were taken from another paper. CC BY-SA 2.0

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Punishments for plagiarism.CC BY-NC 2.0Droidy

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Famous Plagiarism Incidents.

• Martin Luther King Jr’s doctorial dissertation.• Henry Ford II’s thesis on Thomas Hardy.• Barack OBama’s campaign speech.

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Some Boring Stats.

• 36% of undergrads have “paraphrased” lines from the internet with out noting it.

• Senior students tend to plagiarise more then junior students.

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• 75% of students would not report plagiarism if they knew

of it.• 7% of students admit to having turned in someone

else’s work as their own.

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Almost Finished…

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Why commit Plagiarism??CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 WingedWolf

Multiple Reasons for Plagiarism.CC BY-NC-ND 2.0wellcome images

• Procrastination• Not knowing how to reference

properly.

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• Googleling the answer.• Forgetting to do the actual work.

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Thank you for listening.

• kylelynchkurzawa@hotmail.com• @Efx_ELIT3

Questions?

Remember, plagiarism is a bad thing.