False Feathers

A Perspective on Academic Plagiarism

Debora Weber-Wulff (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

XV, 200 Seiten

2016 | Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014
Springer Berlin (Verlag)
978-3-662-51393-4 (ISBN)

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With plagiarism a growing problem on university campuses, this book explains a range of strategies to identify instances of the offence. Written by an activist in the VroniPlag Wiki group, it shows how members find and document plagiarism in dissertations.

Since human beings have been writing it seems there has been plagiarism. It is not something that sprouted with the advent of the Internet. Teachers have been struggling for years in countries all over the globe to find good methods for dealing with the problem of plagiarizing students. How do we spot plagiarism? How do we teach them not to plagiarize? And how do we deal with those who have been found out to be plagiarists? The purpose of this book is to collect material on the various aspects of plagiarism in education with special attention given to the German problem of dissertation plagiarism. Since there is a wide-spread interest in the German plagiarism situation and in strategies for dealing with it, the book is written in English in order to be accessible to a larger audience.

Debora Weber-Wulff (1957) is a Professor of Media and Computing at the University of Applied Sciences, HTW Berlin. She studied computer science in San Diego, CA, USA and Kiel, Germany. The topic of plagiarism has been one of her main interests since 2002, and she is active in the German VroniPlag Wiki group, which has been documenting plagiarism in dissertations since 2011. She blogs in English on scientific misconduct (copy-shake-paste.blogspot.com) and oversees a German-language portal on plagiarism (plagiat.htw-berlin.de).

Introduction.- Plagiarism and Scientific Misconduct.- Plagiarism in Germany.- Plagiarism Detection.- Plagiarism Avoidance.- Plagiarism Policies and Procedures Abroad.- Plagiarism Perspective.- The future?.- Works Cited.- Appendix.

Erscheinungsdatum	29.08.2016
Zusatzinfo	XV, 200 p. 12 illus.
Verlagsort	Berlin
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	350 g
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Datenbanken
	Naturwissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
Schlagworte	Computer Science • Good scientific practice • History of plagiarism • Information Retrieval • information systems applications (incl. internet) • Internet Searching • plagiarism • science education • Science: general issues • Teaching of a specific subject • VroniPlag Wiki
ISBN-10	3-662-51393-5 / 3662513935
ISBN-13	978-3-662-51393-4 / 9783662513934
Zustand	Neuware