Od: LiAnna Davis <ldavis(a)wikimedia.org> Komu: Wikimedia Education <education(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Datum: 21.11.2013 00:04 Předmět: [Wikimedia Education] Results of plagiarism study

I'm curious to see if this seems to hold true with your programs as well -- and does anyone have a great solution they've implemented that's cut down on student plagiarism?

More generally, although the notions of authorship, ownership, and other elements of print culture are taken for granted today, Adrian Johns (2001) argues that they ‘are in fact rather more contingent than generally acknowledged’. In particular, the process of stigmergy is at odds with increasingly strict laws regarding copyright. In this vein, Peter Jaszi argues that ‘copyright law, with its emphasis on rewarding and safeguarding “originality”, has lost sight of the cultural value of what might be called “serial collaborations” – works resulting from successive elaborations of an idea or text’ (1994: 40). Furthermore, deference to copyright has become so exaggerated that, in Rebecca Moore Howard’s view, it prompts a form of hypocrisy around what she calls ‘patchwriting’, ‘a form of imitatio, of mimesis’ that is inherent to professional writing and students’ learning (1999: xviii). A similar concern leads Richard Posner (2007) to conclude that plagiarism is a complex and constructed notion, overreaching and inappropriate in many of its contemporary applications; according to Posner, what we should focus on and condemn is intellectual fraud.

Copy with attribution Copy without attribution -----Original Message----- From: Vojtěch Dostál <vojtech.dostal(a)centrum.cz> To: Wikimedia Education <education(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Sent: Thu, Nov 21, 2013 8:26 am Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Education] Results of plagiarism study I never came up with a magical solution of plagiarism and I would like to hear it, if there is one. The percentages suggested by Sage Ross's study are realistic; these are numbers we cope with on Czech Wikipedia too. It seems to me that some students can hear the "Don't plagiarise" warning three times and still do it; among others, this is also a matter of generally educating people what authorship and plagiarism means. All sorts of 'strange' questions are asked by students during the Wikipedia sessions such as "I know we can't copy from a book, but what about from the Internet", "Can I copy from the Internet if there is no author?" etc... you have to answer all of these carefully. My friend Petr Broz (user:Chmee2) used to have one way of making students remember that they should not plagiarize: He explained them everything and than he showed them how easy it is to discover a plagiarism by showing a google search by test and a google search by searching for similar images. This seemed to leave a long-lasting effect on students :-). cheers Vojtech ************************ Vojtěch Dostál Mail vojtech.dostal(a)centrum.cz ______________________________________________________________ Hi all! I know plagiarism is something a lot of us face around the world, so I thought you all might be interested in a blog post Sage Ross put together about a plagiarism study we did on the English Wikipedia, comparing student contributions to other editor cohorts: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/11/20/how-to-make-a-wikipedian-angry/ I'm curious to see if this seems to hold true with your programs as well -- and does anyone have a great solution they've implemented that's cut down on student plagiarism? LiAnna -- LiAnna Davis Wikipedia Education Program Communications Manager Wikimedia Foundation http://education.wikimedia.org (415) 839-6885 x6649 ldavis(a)wikimedia.org ---------- _______________________________________________ Education mailing list Education(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education _______________________________________________ Education mailing listEducation@lists.wikimedia.orghttps://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education _______________________________________________ Education mailing list Education(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education