University of Texas at San Antonio students wanted to draft an honor code that discouraged cheating and plagiarizing.
Unfortunately, the student committee’s results lifted sections of Brigham Young University’s honor code that the UofT students found on-line.
Even the definition of plagiarism was, well, plagiarized.
Akshay Thusu, the student in charge of the honor code project, said it was an oversight.
BYU credited Clemson University’s Center for Academic Integrity as a key source, but UT-San Antonio’s draft failed to do so. That will be corrected, Thusu said.
For example, the draft honor code at San Antonio defines:
Inadvertent Plagiarism. Inadvertent plagiarism involves the inappropriate, but nondeliberate, use of another’s words, ideas, or data without appropriate attribution, failure to follow established rules for documenting sources or from being insufficiently careful in research and writing.
Brigham Young’s honor code includes a similar definition:
Inadvertent Plagiarism: Inadvertent plagiarism involves the inappropriate, but nondeliberate, use of another’s words, ideas, or data without proper attribution. Inadvertent plagiarism usually results from an ignorant failure to follow established rules for documenting sources or from simply being insufficiently careful in research and writing.
As you may have noticed this entire article is plagiarized.
Sources:
Headline: UPI
1st Paragraph: AP
2nd Paragraph: Newsbusters
3rd Paragraph: SA Express-News
4th Paragraph: Kansas City Star
5th Paragraph: Austin American Statesman
6th and 7th: Chronicle of Higher Education
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The honor code itself (PDF)
Honor code committee website
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The plagiarism problems must be redesigned because today we have a big problem with that. How can you create something new and avoid plagiating at the same time? Sometimes you just create a sentence that was written by someone else without you even knowing that. It is impossible to avoid a partial plagiarism.
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The plagiarism has always been here to distort the careful research and writing. The documenting and established rules should be observed by all diligently.
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i did a paper on this topic, take a look here: https://eul.academia.edu/kheme/Papers/353119/Electronic_Source_Code_Plagiarism_Detection