Comments on: How to think about plagiarism http://blogs.reuters.com/jackshafer/2011/10/14/how-to-think-about-plagiarism/ Tue, 21 May 2013 16:24:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Journo2 http://blogs.reuters.com/jackshafer/2011/10/14/how-to-think-about-plagiarism/#comment-200 Journo2 Wed, 19 Oct 2011 18:05:37 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/jackshafer/?p=167#comment-200 FWIW, at Columbia Journalism School, plagiarizers not only flunk the course, they get kicked out. Happened to a few of them. Good piece, by the way. FWIW, at Columbia Journalism School, plagiarizers not only flunk the course, they get kicked out. Happened to a few of them.

Good piece, by the way.

]]> By: ethicreate http://blogs.reuters.com/jackshafer/2011/10/14/how-to-think-about-plagiarism/#comment-197 ethicreate Tue, 18 Oct 2011 11:20:02 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/jackshafer/?p=167#comment-197 Could not agree more. I think Universities need to be tougher - often they just fail a paper if it has plagiarism, but instead the student should always be failed for the entire course, or be suspended. Could not agree more. I think Universities need to be tougher – often they just fail a paper if it has plagiarism, but instead the student should always be failed for the entire course, or be suspended.

]]> By: matthewslyman http://blogs.reuters.com/jackshafer/2011/10/14/how-to-think-about-plagiarism/#comment-196 matthewslyman Tue, 18 Oct 2011 07:23:20 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/jackshafer/?p=167#comment-196 Excuses for plagiarism will get harder and harder to justify. Just as plagiarism is getting easier to accomplish, policing it is getting much easier... All you need in most cases is a search-engine! I wonder whether there's a WordPress plugin for policing (or at least flagging up) plagiarism? Excuses for plagiarism will get harder and harder to justify. Just as plagiarism is getting easier to accomplish, policing it is getting much easier… All you need in most cases is a search-engine! I wonder whether there’s a WordPress plugin for policing (or at least flagging up) plagiarism?

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