I have had a suspected case of academic dishonesty this semester and it really bugs me. Tonight I received an e-mail from Amy (as all of you did) concerning subjects that she thinks were topics of academic dishonesty, ie recycled papers from English 110.
All of this got me thinking that maybe we should post TOPICS ONLY of suspected cases of plagiarism and academic dishonesty on our bulletin board. Since we talk to each other, and at least have a common gathering place, we should be sharing information about papers that are suspect of plagiarism or academic dishonesty. This DOES NOT mean that we should reaveal the suspect's name, but merely post the themes and subjects of papers that have been suspected of being bought, recycled, or plagiarized. We are not experts, but we have all come to recognize papers that seem just a little too polished or slick for the abilities of the writer. Maybe we can make some practical use out of our bulletin board by sending out red flags on subjects that are suspect and some of the content of the suspected paper. When we begin contrasting and comparing then we can either rule out academic dishonesty, or we can quit giving A's to students who don't deserve them.
Sorry Craig, this may take some of your space away from the bulletin board.
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I know it's considered bad form in this department to rely on anything like Turnitin.com, but I would recommend it. Unfortunately, it takes some time after a school has begun to use it to gain a record of papers in the database (i.e., a frat brother's paper from 3 years ago), but it has helped me to teach citation and deter plagiarism.
I'm not suggesting that we file the complete paper, but just use some bulletin board space for the topic and a couple of sentences. The time it would take to do that would be less than the time it took me to write this reply. We could use a "suspected plagiarism clipboard" and post suspected material there.
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