Psst! It’s no secret: copying is plagiarism

“It is extremely easy for students to make the mistake of cutting and pasting from the Internet,” said Catharine O’Connell, vice president for academic affairs and academic dean at Defiance College. “In the old days, when one had to type in text from a source, there wasn’t as much temptation, and it would have been very difficult to use large sections of a source without realizing it. Now, it is so easy to cut and paste that students can end up using large sections of someone else’s work almost before they know it.”

In the freshmen courses, first-year seminar and global civilization, academic honesty and plagiarism are addressed.

“Many faculty members revisit the topic in other classes, but we believe it is important to have the conversation about plagiarism right at the beginning of a student’s career at DC,” stated O’Connell.

Source: Crescent-News.com

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