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Article: Plagiarism and costs.(Essay)
- Article from:
- College Student Journal
- Article date:
- September 1, 2009
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It is costly for faculty to deal with cheating. Keith-Spiegel et al. (1998) identified several of these costs and argued that they can be grouped into four categories: emotionality, difficult, fear, and denial. I argue that the emotional and fear costs for faculty make it unlikely that the common approaches to dealing with plagiarism will be effective. I provide an example of an old approach which diminishes some of the costs for faculty.
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Evidence indicates that cheating on written assignments is common, perhaps more common than cheating on exams. For example, statistics reported by Premeaux (2005) indicate that students estimate that the ...