CT231 Assignment 4 presentation on academic plagiarism

1. Academic Plagiarism
Kyle Lynch-Kurzawa

2. What to cover.
• What?
• How?
• Why?
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EU Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection

3. Definition:
The practice of taking
someone else’s work
or ideas and passing
them off as one’s own.CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
unpodimondo

4. How plagiarism is detected.
By hand and by using software. CC BY-SA 2.0
olarte.olliee

5. Steps to detection.
• Read in paper.
• Pick out suspicous parts.
• Test suspisous parts.
• Output results to user.CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
siette

6. Machine vs. Human
• Fast.
• Expensive to
implement.
• Needs a human to take
final decision.
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siette

7. Machine vs. Human 2
• Slow.
• Efficient (you can instantly remember a
particular phrase from a book).
• Can check if students have taken material
from lecture notes that were taken from
another paper.
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Moe Adel

8. Punishments for plagiarism.CC BY-NC 2.0
Droidy

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Official BlackBerry Images

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UHDL

11. Famous Plagiarism Incidents.
• Martin Luther King Jr’s doctorial dissertation.
• Henry Ford II’s thesis on Thomas Hardy.
• Barack OBama’s campaign speech.
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davidcoxon

12. Some Boring Stats.
• 36% of undergrads have “paraphrased” lines from
the internet with out noting it.
• Senior students tend to plagiarise more then
junior students.
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Stevie Spires

13. • 75% of students would not report plagiarism if they
knew
of it.
• 7% of students admit to having turned in someone
else’s work as their own.
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Cozinhando Fantasias

14. Almost Finished…
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Ömer Ünlü

15. Why commit Plagiarism??
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WingedWolf

16. Multiple Reasons for Plagiarism.
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wellcome images

17. • Procrastination
• Not knowing how to reference
properly.
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cheerfulmonk

18. • Googleling the answer.
• Forgetting to do the actual work.
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besos y flores

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jayneandd

20. Thank you for listening.
• kylelynchkurzawa@hotmail.com
• @Efx_ELIT3
Questions?
Remember, plagiarism is a bad thing.