I think the officer is wrong. Plagiarism is, I think, with benefit of
authoritative source, an appropriation of anither's work as one's. A
form of fraud but not the only form of fraud. Intentionally
misrepresenting one's work as an original response to an assignment
may be fraud, depending on the expectations in the context. Textbook
writers are assumed to be recycling some of their own work, without
attribution, but the expectation inheres in the context.
So it comes down to what expectations were implicit in the context,
which was, i think, someone else's point in this series of post. The
officer is correct that it is (most likely) wrongful, but nit that the
wrong is named plagiarism.
I'll bet the integrity officer is not a lawyer or a linguist or a
grammarian.
Thank goodness.
Anybody else analyze it this way?
Ginny
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On Apr 15, 2010, at 2:26 PM, "Kulow, Marianne DelPo" <[log in to unmask]
> wrote:
> Here is the response from Bentley's academic integrity officer:
>
> We do consider this plagiarism and we have had a graduate student
> have a hearing over an incident where much of the first paper was
> cut and pasted into a second paper without citation. Also caught by
> turnitin. The student failed the course but largely because the 0
> on the paper forced it. We talk about this at freshmen plagiarism
> workshop and other places. The problem is that is not something
> that is intuitively wrong or cheating, so, unless expressly
> forewarned, most students would not think they were doing anything
> wrong. We recommend always clearing the use of an old paper with
> the professor and being sure to cite it properly However, again,
> the intent to plagiarize is harder to assume as this act is not
> intuitively wrong.
>
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