Avoiding Plagiarism in an Online Graduate Environment

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By C.B. Crawford, Ph.D.
Assistant Provost for Quality Management
Fort Hays State University
600 Park Street
Hays, KS 67601
(785) 628-5950

Presented at the Association of Graduate Liberal Studies Programs Conference,

October 2002, Chicago, IL.

Online Ed. Jennifer Sauer

Introduction

Plagiarism is not a problem that is unique to the world of higher education in the digital age. Scribes in medieval times dealt with the same situations that current students find themselves in today. The only difference is that the availability the research has proliferated to the extent that information is now in glut instead of scarce. Today, students in any field can acquire readily usable information in seconds.

The lure of "borrowing" other's ideas and writing is not easily resisted, obviously creating problems when passed along as original work. For many knowledge consumers today, the right to copyright means nothing.

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Defining Academic Plagiarism

Types of Plagiarism

Detecting Plagiarism

Prevention and Management of Plagiarism

Other Strategies

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