tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7872819010848426693.post1035614917912662779..comments2024-03-28T02:46:03.227-04:00Comments on The Historical Society: The Plagiarism Gamble and Theory of MindRandallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16755286304057000048noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7872819010848426693.post-29110807930749385282011-09-03T11:49:42.644-04:002011-09-03T11:49:42.644-04:00I find myself troubled by rampant and flagrant pla...I find myself troubled by rampant and flagrant plagiarism in academia. I do wonder if the corporate model of higher education is leading to this problem. Think of it this way: higher enrollment can cause the WalMart effect. Stock 'em deep and sell 'em cheap in the classroom. If you have 60-100 students per course, that is a high volume of papers to grade. Many students do not count on the instructor reading the papers thoroughly. So, they are guessing that they can slip in plundered content without being detected.Barton Pricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02199926398463736606noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7872819010848426693.post-40711716770312195712011-09-02T21:10:03.957-04:002011-09-02T21:10:03.957-04:00Hard to undertsand what is at work with these repe...Hard to undertsand what is at work with these repeat offenses.Randallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16755286304057000048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7872819010848426693.post-34537331732491161142011-09-02T14:33:18.752-04:002011-09-02T14:33:18.752-04:00A close friend of mine who teaches high school Eng...A close friend of mine who teaches high school English in Colorado had a pupil lift a short story by Shirley Jackson verbatim which he submitted as his own work for his end of year short story writing assignment. Unfortunately for him, my friend knew the story as well as who wrote it and informed him and his parents to this effect. The boy's mother rang the schoolboard and demanded that my friend be sacked instantly for casting such a slur upon her son. My friend wrote an email to the mother, attached the son's 'short story' and the link to Shirley Jackson's work. And I'm happy to say the mother apologised shortly thereafter. However, and this is the clincher, this wasn't the first time this boy had plagiarised--he'd done it in my friend's class the previous year and had be caught then too.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7872819010848426693.post-71607172849676313672011-09-01T01:54:07.727-04:002011-09-01T01:54:07.727-04:00Not at all. Borrow away.Not at all. Borrow away.Randallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16755286304057000048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7872819010848426693.post-49989788127322602442011-09-01T00:40:22.833-04:002011-09-01T00:40:22.833-04:00Would you be offended if I "borrowed" yo...Would you be offended if I "borrowed" your line about Google for my syllabus?Stevenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7872819010848426693.post-67686722940132686402011-08-31T14:33:14.168-04:002011-08-31T14:33:14.168-04:00Interesting that just before I saw this, I was loo...Interesting that just before I saw this, I was looking at Neil Gaiman's short video on copyright (http://www.youtube.com/user/historydashpunk?feature=mhee#p/a/f/0/0Qkyt1wXNlI ). Doesn't contradict anything Randall said, but I thought it offered a different perspective on intellectual property.dan allossohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10733670017382794923noreply@blogger.com