With considerations for students, faculty members, librarians, and researchers, this book will explain and help to mitigate plagiarism in higher education contexts.
Plagiarism is a complex issue that affects many stakeholders in higher education, but it isn't always well understood. This text provides an in-depth, evidence-based understanding of plagiarism with the goal of engaging campus communities in informed conversations about proactive approaches to plagiarism.
Offering practical suggestions for addressing plagiarism campus-wide, this book tackles such messy topics as self-plagiarism, plagiarism among international students, essay mills, and contract cheating. It also answers such tough questions as:
Why do students plagiarize, and why don't faculty always report it?Why are plagiarism cases so hard to manage?What if researchers themselves plagiarize?How can we design better learning assessments to prevent plagiarism?When should we choose human detection versus text-matching software?This nonjudgmental book focuses on academic integrity from a teaching and learning perspective, offering comprehensive insights into various aspects of plagiarism with a particular lens on higher education to benefit the entire campus community.
- Provides a comprehensive treatment of plagiarism in higher education
Candidly presents tough topics, such as self-plagiarism and essay millsDraws from the scholarly literature to empower educators, librarians, and students to think proactively about plagiarism prevention
The author examines the issue of plagiarism in higher education, discussing tensions, debates, and complexities related to plagiarism; how it relates to concepts of academic integrity and ethical conduct in education; and how to think proactively about plagiarism and academic integrity. She describes the history of plagiarism; ideas for rethinking traditional notions of what it is and how it is defined; reasons why people plagiarize and aspects like unethical translation, cryptomnesia, and textuality and intentionality, as well as how students and professors see plagiarism differently; how and why to take a multistakeholder approach to academic integrity that emphasizes the individual, departmental, institutional, and societal perspectives; assessment and evaluation strategies; self-plagiarism; academic file sharing and the ethics of sharing course content on the internet; academic outsourcing and contract cheating; diversity, equity, and inclusion in relation to plagiarism and academic integrity; current practices related to the reporting and resolution of academic misconduct cases, including how alternative methods like restorative practices might be more effective, inclusive, and socially just; plagiarism by professors and researchers; and trends like machine learning and artificial intelligence and their impact on plagiarism. Annotation ©2021 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
