Plagiarism

The Origins of Darwin – the plagiarist?

If it was contemporary, the issue of plagiarism would arise because the words are virtually the same, or exactly the same.
His theory may have evolved in Tibet Charles Darwin has been accused of many things – but never before of being a closet Tibetan Buddhist. A leading scholar of human emotions and facial expressions has [...]

Editorial: Just say no to study drugs

Last week The Chronicle reported on a 2007 study conducted among students at Duke and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro that revealed an alarming rate of unprescribed ADHD medication use among undergraduates.
Nine percent of respondents admitted to having used ADHD medications without a prescription since they started college. Five percent reported use within [...]

A cheat, moi? That’s unfair

International students may be called plagiarists because of flawed thinking and naive use of software, says Niall Hayes.
If the new forms of detection software are to be believed, a sizeable proportion of students are plagiarists – and the worst culprits are international students.
But when does poor referencing and an inability to better phrase an original [...]

Literary crimes, or caught with stolen words

Remember those blush-making times when your teacher would hold up your English paper and, eyeing you closely, ask that dreaded question: “Did you really write this yourself?”
Most people who have ever written a paper or taken an exam have a few such embarrassing moments carefully tucked away in the bottom drawer of their memory. One [...]

Songwriter stands trial for plagiarizing himself

“Those songs are not the same!” John Fogerty says, gesturing with his bandaged right hand in an attempt to defuse some of his frustration.
Fogerty has just emerged from Courtroom One at the Federal Building in San Francisco, at the end of a trial day in which he stands accused of, literally, plagiarizing himself.

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