As I see it, it isn't so much that plagiarism is evil </stephanie> i've got a novelist friend who'd definitely beg to differ. though writers' and academics'...
nate jarvis
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Oct 27, 2009 6:27 pm
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... My comment: And in my British education Mario I was taught to paraphrase AND cite who had said it first. For Chinese students taught to use the words and...
I think the virtue in quoting the ancients is that everyone already *knows* who said the original. People do not, in any way, expect others to think that...
Students don't know that it's wrong to copy material in quantity and pass it off as their own? They are pulling your collective legs! The last time this...
Karen wrote: We will certainly not be successful with every student, but we can help almost everyone move closer. ... And teach them one lesson at a time. I...
To add to Karen's comments, I have found that plagiarism and cheating do seem to be a function, in part, of immaturity. Older students and more mature acting...
This problem involves ethics, morals and culture. In addition, students are under a lot of pressure to produce, produce, produce. When they have a holiday they...
I have been known to pick up a stidemt's purse, extract the wallet, and take a few bills out of the wallet during class, in full view of the students. When...
When someone questions me I ask what the moral difference is between stealing money and stealing ideas. </mert> money's material. ideas are virtual. if you...
nate jarvis
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Oct 30, 2009 2:12 am
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Nate wrote: but how often are students plagiarizing from classmates? ... All the time! The hardworking students are expected to let the lazy ones copy due to...
alan
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Oct 31, 2009 2:47 am
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As teachers, we follow the news of the technologies facilitating our work. Here is more on the gradual but constant demise and death of paper: "...the...
Though intangible, I don't ideas are "virtual" especially if they're expressed on paper. A script or book is tangible and something that one can profit from....
The hardworking students are expected to let the lazy ones copy due to their "friendship" bond even if it means the good students get caught. </Alan> so two...
nate jarvis
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Oct 31, 2009 1:15 pm
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MODERATOR NOTE: This interesting discussion on plagiarism is beginning to move a bit away from how to deal with it relative to students and the classroom and...
nate jarvis
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Oct 31, 2009 2:38 pm
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Nov 1, 2009 8:28 am
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MODERATOR NOTE: Most of the items on the website require payment, although the abstracts of the papers presented at the conference are available free, and you...
Forwarded from Linguist List. ... Full Title: English Education Today for Tomorrow: The Road Ahead Short Title: ELC2010 Date: 16-Apr-2010 - 18-Apr-2010 ...
I've changed my response to Karen's post to the Teach list because I want to share a site that another teacher in Japan adapted (by simplifying a little of the...
"Language Learning & Technology is a refereed journal which....seeks to disseminate research to foreign and second language educators in the US and around the...
How many people teach graduate students who may want/have to present in English at professional conferences? What kinds of techniques do you include in your...
Karen, ... I taught a course like that about fifteen years ago at a technical university in Japan. The students mostly wanted help with the grammar in their...
Karen wrote How many people teach graduate students who may want/have to present in English at professional conferences? What kinds of techniques do you...
... Ah no but there were books on such things in the FLTRP bookshop, 3rd Ring NW corner , Beijing. I think I bought one written by an Australian 'for Chinese...
Dave
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Nov 11, 2009 9:58 am
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I see some famous writer (who I haven't read) and probably from HongKong, was taken to task by a reviewer, for plagiarising 'a few phrases' from other sources....
Dave
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Nov 11, 2009 10:03 am
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I've taught this sort of thing. Usually, the student comes in with a few pages he's copied from some source and puts it on the screen power point style and...
On a recent program on the BBC, it was reported that students taking exams in Denmark will be given the exam questions in advance. Students can bring their...
alan
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Nov 14, 2009 7:39 am
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Merton Bland wrote: ... Here's a possibility: Begin by having the student choose an issue s/he has a strong *personal* connection to. Have the student write a...
... Oh dear I adj one BP style and it's not nearly so interesting, because the Prime Minister and Leader Oppn don't get to make a second speech. And it's ...
Dave
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Nov 14, 2009 7:40 am
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... Did you see an article in C-D, I think maybe 2008-9 by, I think ?? Shapiro that Deng was mis-translated in the above and in fact said something else, but...