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Plagiarism : alchemy and remedy in higher education /

"Plagiarism takes an in-depth look at the history of plagiarism in higher education in light of today's Web-based plagiarism detection services. Challenging the widespread assumption that plagiarism is a simple matter of student cheating or scriptural error, Bill Marsh argues that today�...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Marsh, Bill, 1964-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2007.
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  • Machine generated contents note: Introduction : understanding plagiarism
  • 1. "A flurry of fascination" : the (anti)plagiarism cases of Stephen Ambrose and Doris Kearns Goodwin
  • Anatomy of a literary crime
  • strange mix of contempt and sympathy
  • Temptations and their consequences
  • Of echoes, settlements, and surveillance machines
  • Conclusion : fascination revisited
  • 2. plagiarism debate : history and contexts
  • Plagiarism defined
  • Authorship, ownership, and writing
  • Plagiarism and "societal control"
  • Conclusion : writing conventions
  • 3. Plagiarism in the early-twentieth-century "new university"
  • Learning to write in the "new university"
  • "golden era" of plagiarism litigation
  • Plagiarism and the modern "research attitude"
  • Conclusion : plagiarism as error
  • 4. Plagiarism and the alchemical tradition
  • Alchemy, divinity, and Christian remedy
  • Remedium and the birth of scholastic reading
  • Reading Montaigne reading
  • Conclusion : transmutation in the new university
  • 5. How to avoid plagiarism
  • How to read writing handbooks
  • Discipline and credit
  • Quote, paraphrase, and summary
  • Conclusion : synthesis and alchemical transmutation
  • 6. Plagiarism, research writing, and the spirit of inquiry
  • Assaying Montaigne in the modern essay
  • Good writing habits and the experience of inspired sermonizing
  • Plagiarism and the patchwriting ferment
  • Conclusion : preliminary recommendations for research writing instruction
  • 7. Internet plagiarism and plagiarism detection
  • Computers, the Internet, and the plagiarism "epidemic'
  • Plagiarism detection software
  • Turnitin.com and the scriptural enterprise of plagiarism detection
  • Conclusion : Turnitin.com in the "managed" university.