How about this for serendipity?

Having read this latest digest I then returned to my own work and purely by
chance came across this, which seems to sum up the approach that we need
here:

One hundred years ago, Joseph Rowntree transferred a substantial part of his
wealth into three trusts bearing his name.

A Quaker as well as a successful businessman, Joseph Rowntree wanted his
money to be used to tackle the root causes of social problems, rather than
treating their symptoms. In his 'founder's memorandum', he saw it as a
continuing objective of the three trusts:

" . to search out the under-lying causes of weakness or evil in the
community, rather than of remedying their more superficial manifestations .
"
Source: http://www.jrf.org.uk/centenary/ accessed 8 Jul 04


Duncan Williamson



-----Original Message-----
From: George MacDonald Ross [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 07 July 2004 13:10
Subject: Re: Promoting best practice and plagiarism prevention.

Marie,

The correct URL is lower-case R in 'Article', and =, not +. This report
actually contradicts one of Szabo and Underwood's findings:

"One of the more disturbing findings in this new project is the
observation that first year students report serious cheating at
essentially the same rate as upperclassmen. In previous research, first
year students have typically reported lower levels of cheating." (Cut
and pasted!)

I am wholly in favour of using detection software, and have done so
myself. Nevertheless, I remain strongly of the opinion that prevention
is better than cure, and that our teaching will be better if it is
plagiarism-proof.

George.


-----Original Message-----
From: Plagiarism [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Marie
Hill
Sent: 07 July 2004 11:08
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Promoting best practice and plagiarism prevention.


George, this is an interesting abstract, which raises a numnber of
points.

Higher Education Institutions (HEI) can deal (and have been dealing)
with the issue of plagiarism with increased scruitiny about the type of
assessment that is set.

However, this is only part of the overall picture.  Our students are
increasingly using the internet as a reference source, which is fine
when this is acknowleded! Research from the USA, confirms that
plagiarism is dramatically increasing and that fear of being caught does
not always work effectively as a deterent, (New Study Confirms Internet
Plagiarism is Prevalent.
http://ur.rutgers.edu/medrel/viewARticle.html?ArticleID+3408, 8th
October 2003). This study's sample size was very significant (i.e.
18.000) and it found that 38% of the undergraduates completing the
survery indicated that they had engaged in a number of instances of cut
and paste plagiarism without referencing the source.  This would support
the use of software tools such as powerresearcher.

What are your views on this.

Marie.

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