[edi581] Plagiarism assigment (Kelly Ferraro)

  • From: JerryTaylr@xxxxxxx
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  • Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 22:16:57 EST

After reading many of the articles about plagiarism and copyright many things 
come to mind.  The first thing I found interesting was the article about how 
teachers can stop cheaters.  In the article, they spoke of teachers that 
purchased computer programs and other technologies to help them find and catch 
cheaters.   As teachers is this something that we should be doing??  
Spending our 
money and using extra time to run each studentâ??s paper through these programs 
to find out they are cheating.  It makes more sense to me to teach student the 
importance of being honest and have integrity for their work.   
The next section I found interesting was from the â??10 Big Myths about 
Copyrightâ??.  It was number 8 at the list.  It says, â??Oh, so copyright 
violation isnâ??
t a crime of anything?â??  This I have had experiences with from a very 
unlikely 
source, ( donâ??t take offence, Jerry) the teachers at Brockport.   As you 
may 
know I work at the college library.  At the library we offer a service called 
E-Reserves which, you may or may not have used.  If you havenâ??t used itâ?¦It 
allows teachers to place articles, chapters of book, notes and other materials 
on line so students can access them anywhere.   (Kind of like Angel)  Before 
the teacher is allowed to put things on Angel they are given a sheet about 
copyright.  It talks about the â??fair useâ?? that allows them to place one 
article 
from each issue of a journal, magazine or newspaper and one chapter from a 
book.   If a book is not clearly divided, 10% of the work may be copied.  
After the 
teacher is given this, when they had in their materials they have to sign a 
paper saying that they understand these rules and everything they give us will 
pass the copyright laws.   Well, on many occasions my boss has had to call up 
a professor and tell them that they broke the copyright laws and they are not 
allowed to put some of the material on-line.  A professor making that mistake 
once is bad enough but we have a few teachers who like to see how much they 
can get away with.   
Which leads into number 9 on the list.  "It doesn't hurt anybody -- in fact 
it's free advertising."  I think this statement all depends on which side of 
the story you are on.  People like getting things for free, however, people 
like 
to make money off of what they write or publish.   

If anyone is interested in checking out the library's page about copyright 
here it is

http://www.brockport.edu/~library5/copyright.htm#web

Hope everyone has a great TURKEY day!  

Always
~Kelly Ferraro

  
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