Timeline for Is changing some words plagiarism?
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| Jan 12, 2022 at 11:51 | comment | added | Dikran Marsupial | @IanSudbery exactly, I suspect some plagiarism cases are because the student has come from an educational culture where paraphrasing wikipedia etc. achieves good marks, and they don't realise that they are not meeting the learning aims, or that there is anything wrong with it. | |
| Jan 12, 2022 at 10:48 | comment | added | Ian Sudbery | I think this is a useful answer in explaining it to a student though in a way they can understand. Why is plagiarism bad in a university assignment? Well firstly, it is bad because in the "real world" passing off someone else's ideas as your own is one of the worst kinds of misconduct, but also 2) because if you copy someone elses work, you don't demonstrate understanding (an academic, rather than disciplinary issue), but it you change the words, you are trying to hide you lack of understanding (a disciplinary issue). | |
| Jan 11, 2022 at 15:07 | comment | added | Daniel R. Collins | Separate from the academic grade-credit issues, we also need to think about how this interfaces with the school's mechanisms for academic-integrity enforcement actions around plagiarism. So I think the emphasis here is at best half of the issue. | |
| Jan 10, 2022 at 15:37 | history | answered | Dikran Marsupial | CC BY-SA 4.0 |