Transcript Value of Plagiarism Electronic Detector Tools in Higher Education Dr. Ann Hilliard Assistant Professor [email protected] Bowie State University, U.S.A. Department of Educational Studies and Leadership © Educational.

Value of Plagiarism Electronic Detector
Tools in Higher Education
Dr. Ann Hilliard
Assistant Professor
[email protected]
Bowie State University, U.S.A.
Department of Educational Studies and Leadership
© Educational Consultants Institute
What is Plagiarism?
• Using another person’s thoughts as if these were
your own thoughts is committing plagiarism.
• Stating information with authority, as if the
information were your own ideas is committing
plagiarism.
• Citing an original source or owner of the written
work or a design of another individual’s work
without permission is also committing
plagiarism(Dawson, 2004).
Why is Plagiarism Increasing
Globally?
• Increasing the use of technology in educational
and other settings.
• Seeking a quick, but unethical, solution to writing
tasks.
• Noting that more individuals have access to the
use of technology in their own home
environment.
• Observing that too many individuals do not have
the mastery of research or a standard language
and the written word globally.
Copyright Laws and Issues
• Addressing the individual ownership of materials or
information.
• Viewing copyright laws were not an issue until after the
1700.
• Presenting copyright laws in England was in 1710.
• Presenting copyright laws in the United State was during
the 1790.
• Practicing using others’ work was and still is somewhat the
norm in some countries, especially Asia and Europe.
• Attempting to respect, at least, verbally and in written form
of copyright laws have been more of a practice from the
west (Hansen, 2003).
Cultural Views of Plagiarism
• Citing that the largest ethnic groups that
participate in plagiarism are generally Asians
and some Europeans (Introna et al, 2002).
• Indicating that ESOL and EFL individuals in the
US.A. and the U.K. are found to participate in
plagiarism a lot.
• Thinking that quoting authors directly without
using the author’s name is showing a level of
respect (McDonnell, 2003). There is a level of
disrespect if you alter or change the author’s
work in some cultures.
Trends and Issues for Discussion
• Applying different standards related to
academic vs non-academic plagiarism.
• Acknowledging that another individual’s
design of a product or written paper.
• Communicating views about plagiarism
among professors at universities and colleges
may differ.
Global Cultural Views
• Suggesting that the research implies that
many Asians do not always view the value of
intellectual individual rights and ownership;
therefore, that is not plagiarism.
• Suggesting that in research studies globally many Asians, Africans, Middle East Individuals
and First Nation cultures believe that written
author’s work belongs to society compared to
an individual author (McDonnell, 2003).
Prevention Strategies for Plagiarism
• Teaching and informing individuals about the seriousness of
copyright infringement laws are real and if disrespected
could lead to legally matters.
• Informing all candidates or individuals about how to and
the need to produce original writings of quality.
• Presenting papers that are of quality by your own efforts.
• Reviewing formatting style and work expectations based on
standards and rubrics.
• Citing references appropriately using APA, MLA and/or
Chicago style.
• Indicating the preferred references being cited in research.
Devices to Detect Plagiarism
• Using service identified as plagiarism.com for
corporation, individuals or institutions.
• Using service identified as ithenticate.org for
companies, corporations, and publishers.
• Using service identified as writecheck or
turnitin.com for individuals’ academic papers
• Using service identified as turnitinadmission.com
for academic institutions, universities and
colleges.
• Using service identified as docop.com for
corporations, college professors and websites.
Value of Plagiarism Tools Detector
• Offering individuals the opportunity to self-check ones
own work before submission to second party.
• Holding individuals responsible for their own learning
and responsibilities.
• Serving as an instructional tool not a tool for
punishment of individual’s work.
• Improving the quality of academic work as an intended
expectation.
• Helping to instill character and ethics in individuals in
higher education institutions and universities.
The Price of Using Plagiarism
Detectors
• Seeking the use of these plagiarism detectors is
at a fee i.e. writecheck, turnitinadmission,
checkforplagiarism, safeassign.
• Seeking the use of some plagiarism detectors is
free or both are i.e. doccop, plagiarism,
plagiarismdetect, scanmyessay, duplichecker,
grammarly.
If there is a free service, the service has limited
free use. Some services will allow a user to input
information or data for three to four times for
free; thereafter, there is a charge by the service.
Plagiarism Across Spectrums
• Citing real world notions about plagiarism include the
intellectual field and the institutional field for the work
environment.
• Citing real world application of plagiarism can raise its
head in the ghostwriters, bureaucratic and respected
authorship environment.
• Writing for politicians, famous individuals or
entrepreneurs.
• Writing stories for newspaper columns, books, public
speaking speeches at graduation and citations without
being authorized to do so, could all constitute
plagiarism (Martin, 1994).
Plagiarism Across Spectrums
continued
• Announcing an outcome result in laboratory
research on humans or animals.
• Pretending to have participated in major research
projects.
• Presenting another person’s paper or student’s
work at an international conference claiming that
it is your research constitutes plagiarism.
• Seeing high level officials signing documents
claiming that this is their work, but the work was
written by a subordinate within the organization.
Is there Real Clarity in the World
Citing Plagiarism?
• Creating and citing literature to justify what is
plagiarism is not always clear to individuals.
• Citing an image of a person, place or thing
could be considered a copy or not, but if an
extra copy is made that is considered
plagiarism?
• Looking through a cloud of information
related to plagiarism can be confusing to
some individuals.
Family Educational Rights and Privacy
Act
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Disclosing confidential information about an individual to third parties without their
families' permission or individual’s permission is an infringement of the individual’s
rights and privacy.
Arguing that sending papers through a plagiarism detector without the permission of
the individual is a violation of the individual’s rights
Archiving individual students’ papers complies with FERPA, since the statute only
applies at two points: when the student’s document is transmitted to a data-base and
when the document is released from the database and when a match is found with
another submission.
Looking at papers with plagiarism detection tools is considered a non-violation of an
individual’s paper if the name of the individual is not recorded on the paper. Rationale
1: if there is not a name on the paper, this paper is not considered a part of the
individual’s record; however, there are two schools of thought regarding this action,
since the paper has not yet been graded. Rationale 2: the paper does not divulge
personal identifying information about the individual.
Reviewing the Family Compliance Policy Office in the Department of Education in the
United States is responsible for enforcing FERPA, has stated that institutions “may
submit” students’ papers to Turnitin.com only if they remove all personally identifiable
information from the papers (Family Policy Compliance Office, 2006).
Students Individual Rights and
Responsibilities
• Citing, however, that It's important for
individuals to know that fair and impartial
treatment is an individual’s right.
• Remembering an individual’s rights and that
due process is guaranteed. Regardless of the
outcome, an individual case should be held in
strict confidence in accordance with the
Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of
1974 in the U.S.A.
References
• Dawson, J. 2004. Plagiarism: What’s really going on? In Seeking
Educational Excellence.
• Family Policy Compliance Office, 2006.
• Hall, Edward T., and Mildred Reed Hall, 1990. Understanding
Cultural Differences Maine: Intercultural Press, Inc.
• Hansen, B 2003. Combating Plagiarism. CQ Researcher 13 (32).
773-796.
• Introna, L. et. Al. 2003. Cultural Attitudes Toward Plagiarism.
Lancaster University.
• Martin, B. 1994. Plagiarism: A Misplaced emphasis. Journal of
Information Ethics 3 (2).. 36-47
• McDonnell, K. 2003. Academy Plagiarism Rules and ESL LearningMutually Exclusive Concepts? American University, Washington, D.
C.