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

Bobby Approved (v 3.2)
Friday, March 15, 2002

http://www.uwiretoday.com/computing031402002.html

Speech theft, plagiarism thrive through Internet
By Justin Smith & Drew Reese, The Auburn Plainsman (Auburn U.)

(U-WIRE) AUBURN, Ala. -- Katharine Jackson's award-winning high school speech is now on sale for $19.95, and college students are buying it. Jackson, now a sophomore at Harvard University, wrote the piece during her senior year of high school in Kettering, Ohio. It since has floated around the Internet and now is located on several essay search sites. It also found its way into print -- in The Auburn Circle. Last spring The Circle accepted Jackson's piece, submitted as an original work by [a student], who graduated from Auburn University with a journalism degree last year....

 



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