According to surveys of students and faculty by Rutgers Business School in Newark, N.J., about 33 to 40 percent of high-school and college students admit to having done some kind of cut-and-paste plagiarism.
Academic integrity is important, as is respecting people's intellectual property, says Brentzel-Martina, who teaches her students to value their own ideas and work and to give credit to other people's.
Read more: Internet creates a rise in cut-and-paste plagiarism
5 comments:
Maybe Cissy Bowman should be required by their solicitor to run all of Jo's proposed print messages through that "Turnitin.com" program before it is seen by the public ?
Just a thought.
Bill Lewis
What makes you think most things are seen by the public, Bill...the same board that complained about the number of RTK requests now demands people fill out RTK requests. Somewhere there is a sitcom writer banging his head against a wall wishing he had come up with this stuff.
Yeah, Jim....but because the District threatens those who use their material, whether for pleasure or profit, with copyright & trademark infringement, sitcom writers are undoubtedly reluctant to use it.
I use the terms copyright & trademark because I just cannot in good conscience refer to what comes out of the District sometimes as IP(*intellectual* property).
Bill Lewis
Just to be clear, I have not been threatened...yet.
Elaine
I wonder how much they owe in SAG residuals.
Elaine
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