Cheater-Cheater, Don't Be A Repeater
Mike Bloom
Issue date: 3/24/09 Section: News
Tragni added, "Dishonest students who want to get good grades, one measure of success, don't realize they are missing the point of true success - gaining knowledge, developing competencies, growing personally, and acting with integrity, all of which prepare them for successful careers."
Along with handling the situation mutually, the faculty member and student must complete a faculty report regarding the incident. The report must be signed with optional responses from both parties. The matter is dealt thereafter in consultation with the director of the Graduate/Undergraduate Program and eventually the school dean.
In each course syllabus, which is usually handed out in the first class of the course, the professor outlines in detail the school's policy along with his/her own personal constraints. The students are not only introduced with the guidelines but are responsible for their own actions thereafter.
"I find that a writing instructor can tell over a period of time the student's writing ability and can recognize inconsistency as well as improvement," commented Dr. Sean Dugan, Interim Dean for the School of Liberal Arts. "I always prefer speaking with a student privately about his/her writing when I have a question."
Faculty is also familiar with the Turnitin.com website, designed to quickly decipher if a student has handed in fraudulent or "stolen" material from another outside source. Turn-it-in has several basic functions: the website checks for possible plagiarism by comparing submitted papers to several databases using a proprietary algorithm. It scans its own database and also has licensing agreements with large academic proprietary databases.
"I have used the program a few times, with mixed success. I think that those who are savvy with the computer have found a way to make alterations to the material so that the system does not pick it up," said Dugan. "But, when it works, it can be very effective."
Plagiarism also has its legal ramifications outside the classroom.
Along with handling the situation mutually, the faculty member and student must complete a faculty report regarding the incident. The report must be signed with optional responses from both parties. The matter is dealt thereafter in consultation with the director of the Graduate/Undergraduate Program and eventually the school dean.
In each course syllabus, which is usually handed out in the first class of the course, the professor outlines in detail the school's policy along with his/her own personal constraints. The students are not only introduced with the guidelines but are responsible for their own actions thereafter.
"I find that a writing instructor can tell over a period of time the student's writing ability and can recognize inconsistency as well as improvement," commented Dr. Sean Dugan, Interim Dean for the School of Liberal Arts. "I always prefer speaking with a student privately about his/her writing when I have a question."
Faculty is also familiar with the Turnitin.com website, designed to quickly decipher if a student has handed in fraudulent or "stolen" material from another outside source. Turn-it-in has several basic functions: the website checks for possible plagiarism by comparing submitted papers to several databases using a proprietary algorithm. It scans its own database and also has licensing agreements with large academic proprietary databases.
"I have used the program a few times, with mixed success. I think that those who are savvy with the computer have found a way to make alterations to the material so that the system does not pick it up," said Dugan. "But, when it works, it can be very effective."
Plagiarism also has its legal ramifications outside the classroom.
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