Online Learning Update Ray Schroeder, editor, OTEL - University of Illinois at Springfield

Bobby Approved (v 3.2)
Monday, October 01, 2001

http://www.dailyemerald.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2001/09/26/3bb1f940da286

Internet helps catch cheaters - Professors are finding more ways to identify papers that have been plagiarized, thanks to new Internet resources

By Leon Tovey, Oregon Daily Emerald

"Plagiarism/Cheating: Academic dishonesty will not be tolerated in this course or at this University: Your work must be 100 percent your own. If you are caught cheating on exams or quizzes or plagiarizing in your written work, you will fail the course." During the first week of classes, every student will see the above policy -- or some variation of it -- on syllabi in courses ranging from ENG 207 to ECON 201. With the number of reported cases of "academic dishonesty" -- a catch-all term for cheating and plagiarism of any kind -- on the rise, students can be certain that someone, somewhere, will be watching....

 



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