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Article: Plagiarism: prevention, not prosecution.
- Article from:
- The Book Report
- Article date:
- September 1, 2002
- Author:
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It's happened to all of us. A scowling teacher comes storming into the media center, a sheaf of paper in hand. "I know this student didn't write this. Can you check the Internet to find out where he or she stole it?" We type odd phrases in a search engine, sometimes finding bits and pieces from here and there, and sometimes whole sections or even an entire paper. The teacher is angry, you are discouraged, and the student gets a zero of worse.
"Is this plagiarized?" requests appear regularly on a library listserv to which I belong. Often, when we prove plagiarism, our reaction is "Gotcha!" Library literature is filled with articles about cheating--how even the ...