how the internet affects plagiarism
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An Ignite presentation that asks the questions: Is plagiarism on the rise since the advent of latest technologies and how are universities trying to deal with the problemTRANSCRIPT
How the Internet Affects Plagiarism
Colm Rudden@colmrudden
#ct231Image CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 photoeditorvision
What is originality?
Undetected plagiarism
- Dean William R. Inge
COPY
+PASTE
If you can’t find it on Google, it doesn’t
exist!
• 10,000 institutions
• 126 countries
• 1 million faculty users
• 20 million students
• 220 million papers
SOURCE: turnitin.com
COMMON SENSE APPROACH
PLAGIARISM.ORG
PLAGIARISMTODAY.COM
NUIGALWAY.IE/WRAP
tricks of the trade
Image CC BY 2.0Robert Couse-Baker
LIMITATIONS
Image CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 LiverpoolHopeUniversity
"If you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many,
it's research."
- Wilson Mizner
Thank You!
Colm Rudden @colmrudden #ct231
www.slideshare.net/c_rudden