Plagiarism

04.16.2005

How do you fight plagiarism when: A tenured Colorado professor has "invented" several academic references? An academic conference accepts a paper of computer generated gibberish? A prestigious medical journal publishes a (debunked) study w/o peer review in order to come out before an election?

What are we telling students? For future reference, WMU's guidelines are here.

Posted by Miguel at 01:12 PM

Comments

I think the simple fact that you can point to such cases in outrage shows how we fight it; by exposing it. Should the above have happened, definetly no. However, by exposing the plaugerist we then invalidate their work and send a warning to others.

Just my two cents.

-Josh

Posted by: Joshu at April 16, 2005 09:59 PM

Josh, amen. N.

Posted by: Nenad at April 17, 2005 08:37 AM