{"id":126,"date":"2001-04-26T13:19:58","date_gmt":"2001-04-26T17:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=126"},"modified":"2001-04-26T13:19:58","modified_gmt":"2001-04-26T17:19:58","slug":"plagiarism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=126","title":{"rendered":"Plagiarism"},"content":{"rendered":"

was originally intending to write about something else, and then I saw my friend Debbie Ohi’s Blatherings entry today<\/a> on Internet stealing as well as Yen Shinkasen’s journal entry<\/a> describing someone else who "borrowed" her entire site’s hand-coded design. Since I’ve had three cases of obvious plagiarism this semester (one stealing from an on-line source), it touched a nerve.<\/p>\n


\nMy interim chair, Jim Dickinson, has suggested that perhaps the Napster movement has made stealing a part of popular culture. I certainly intend to do more to educate my students, but I’m sure there has been plenty of cheating in the past. As I explain to my students, one needs to be wary about implicit myths of a golden age.
\nFor the record, identifying student plagiarism is fairly easy: Usually the voice does not sound right. In about 80-90% of the cases, I can find the source within an hour or two. When I suspect plagiarism, I always get this awful pit-in-my-stomach feeling, and I hate the time my tracking sources down takes from the time I spend with other students, on my own research and writing, or my family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

was originally intending to write about something else, and then I saw my friend Debbie Ohi’s Blatherings entry today on Internet stealing as well as Yen Shinkasen’s journal entry describing someone else who "borrowed" her entire site’s hand-coded design. Since I’ve had three cases of obvious plagiarism this semester (one stealing from an on-line source), […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-22","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}