From NPR this morning:
Students at the University of Texas at San Antonio were determined to uphold standards at their school. They wrote an honor code that discouraged both cheating and plagiarizing. But they weren't going to waste a lot of time writing the darn thing themselves. The wording of a draft of the honor code appears to match the honor code at Brigham Young University. The student in charge of the project says the lack of a proper citation was just an oversight.
Whoops. Not saying it was intentional, but if you are going to write something on plagiarism, make sure to use appropriate citations.
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I'm currently on a committee that's investigating whether to switch to an honor code system for academic honesty issues, and possibly social violations as well. This is about as much fun as it sounds like.
As a new blogger here at Book of Trogool I'd like to thank Dorothea for the opportunity to share in the discussion of evolving issues in technology, libraries, research, and scholarly communication.
Today is Memorial Day in the US, which is a holiday to honor the dead of our various wars. It's also the traditional start of summer-type activities, and most people spend it at cookouts and parades and that sort of thing.
The Supreme Court just heard arguments in the case of Buono v.
Like I always say, not saying it was intentional, but if you are going to write something on plagiarism, make sure to use appropriate citiations.
While I was reading the UT ethics story in the paper paper after lunch, I looked up at my computer monitor and saw this story at Ars Technica (http://arstechnica.com) "Sony BMG's hypocrisy: company busted for using warez." Sony, "one of the most vocal supporters of the RIAA and IFPI antipiracy efforts" is being sued for software piracy. A double dose of irony.
FUCK ALL YALL I would kill someone if they sued my child.....dead