Assignment on 11/4

1. The penalty for plagiarism at Stanford University.
The penalty for student's first-time violation of plagiarism is a one-quarter suspension and 40 hours of community service. If the student is still caught but in final quarter of enrollment, the one-quarter suspension will be turned into two quarters.

2. The six possible punishments if you plagiarising at the University of Washington.
Correct answer: Disciplinary Warning, Reprimand, Restitution, Disciplinary Probation, Suspension, Dismissal.


3. Fired for plagiariam(three articles):

FIRST: a reporter for the Explorer, weekly paper in Arizona, was fired after he/she was found to have taken a story written for a journalism class and, with a few minor updates, passed it off as new work. Aside from the dishonesty, one of the problems was that the piece was outdated and therefore contained inaccurate information.

SECOND: The Ward Churchill academic misconduct investigation concerned charges of plagiarism, fabrication, and falsification against him who Churchill was a professor at the time. On May 16, 2006, the investigative committee released its findings that he had engaged in academic misconduct and had been "disrespectful of Indian oral traditions."
The University's Standing Committee on Research Misconduct decided that Churchill should be dismissed. Churchill has denied any wrongdoing, and has vowed to contest his firing in the court system.

THIRD: Papers submitted to Turnitin.com are checked against a database of more than one million manuscripts, which flags unoriginal phrases. Turnitin.com copies the student papers in their entirety to its database, which is a potential infringement of the students' copyrights. Such concerns lead officials at the University of California at Berkeley not to subscribe to Turnitin.com. This is ironic because John Barrie, the Turnitin.com founder, started developing the software upon which the service is based while a graduate student at Berkeley. Turnitin.com is growing rapidly; Mr. Barrie recently won a contract to serve more than 700 colleges and universities in Britain.

4. Opinion on plagiarism.

I have watched the website http://www.stanford.edu/dept/vpsa/judicialaffairs/students/plagiarism.cases.htm. In fact, some paragraphs I can't understand. Although each word is easy to explain, I just can't put them together.So, in my short opinion, there just a paragraph I want to talk about."A student turned in an essay that had substantial and extensive copying from a published source." and "He/She did not intend to plagiarize." This section, I think, which the student works so hard and denys that he/she doesn't copy, but the student really do it. If I were the student, I would have ordered the essay and written in my own words. It would look better

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