Teachers turn tables on plagiarism

National student surveys run by the Center for Academic Integrity reveal the trend. In 1999, 10 percent of college students admitted anonymously to plagiarizing sources from the Internet, according to the center, which surveyed 50,000 undergraduates at 60 institutions. Last year, 40 percent admitted...

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Published inThe Charleston gazette (Charleston, W. Va. : 1907)
Main Author Mike Jackson and Karen Ayres
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Charleston, W.V Charleston Newspapers 30.01.2006
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Dodd, Tim
Harris, Kimberly
Witcher, Kathy
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Summary:National student surveys run by the Center for Academic Integrity reveal the trend. In 1999, 10 percent of college students admitted anonymously to plagiarizing sources from the Internet, according to the center, which surveyed 50,000 undergraduates at 60 institutions. Last year, 40 percent admitted doing so. "There are more means available to cheat," said Tim Dodd, executive director of the Center for Academic Integrity at Duke University's Kenan Institute for Ethics. "But an ethical person, regardless of the variety of means, is not going to use them." Students give in to temptations to cheat under pressures to succeed, said Dodd, of the Center for Academic Integrity. High school students aiming for college are expected to participate in various extracurricular activities while maintaining good grades. College students headed for graduate schools face the same pressures. Scholarships are won and lost based in part on grade- point averages.