http://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/voi...plagiarism.html

"The computer program that UVA Physics professor Lou Bloomfield designed this year has triggered one of the biggest plagiarism investigations in the university's history. Over 120 students or recent graduates are currently under suspicion."

"The program is designed to catch duplicated phrases in term papers by scanning papers for shared phrases of at least six words."

"When Bloomfield later checked the papers by hand, he found that some of the term papers had been entirely copied from someone else."

ok, so the professor is using a computer program to find plagiarisers? isn't that a little bit too much?

 

Um...isn't it a bit much to plagiarize in the first place?

Don't do the crime if you can't do the time.

Mark

 

Well....he caught some using it, so I wouldn't say it is too much. Computers sure make it easier to trade papers to each other such as via e-mail or disk. Why not use them to help fight it? Sounds like he came up with a good idea and it paid off.

 

This isn't new. UC Irvine submits MBA papers to an internet database that does the same thing. Gotta be a good little boy.

 

Incorrect in the article, if half were cheating off the other half, they'd ALL 100% be expelled......

It should have said half were involved in cheating.

 

I always knew they were crooked up there at UVa....

GO HOKIES!!!

 

I don't see why that is too much. People are there to learn, not to copy from each other. Anyone can do that!!

I had an assignment at University reduced from an "A" grade to a "D" for the same thing. I had actually written mine, a friend copied and passed his to someone else and so on. Ended up with 4 people effectively copying mine.

The reason it was spotted? I used a different approach to the one taight by that lecturer since I had previously learnt things different way (they didn't mind as long as you came to the same conclusion). It was, however, obvious that the others had copied since it wasn't the way the lecturer had taught them!

 

When I was in school (University of Michigan), my CS professor has a perl script that checks your program submittion against everyone else's submittion + last year's submittion. I remember several of my friends were caught. This isn't new in the university. So surprised UVA just found out the use of it so late.

 

Amen, Sondra!!!


HOKIES RULE!!!!!!!!! I just found out they are going to the Gator Bowl in Jacksonville. They will be playing, errrrrrrrr kicking the ass of............... Florida State!!

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Stealthy_S2K
[B]When I was in school (University of Michigan), my CS professor has a perl script that checks your program submittion against everyone else's submittion + last year's submittion.