Plagiarism

Authors: Ronald E. Bucknam
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: You are requested to submit a proposal for a site investigation, and find later that a competitor has used the scope of work you developed to obtain the job for slightly less money....
Year: 2003
URL: http://www.niee.org/Case_of_the_Month/1009%20-%20The%20Plagiarized%20Proposal.doc

Authors: Ronald E. Bucknam
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: The instructor in a graduate class discovers several students cheating on the final project, but is directed to be generous in grading the students since support for scholarships, assistantships, faculty salaries and research is dep...
Year: 2003
URL: http://www.niee.org/Case_of_the_Month/1018%20-%20Between%20a%20Rock%20and%20a%20Hard%20Place.doc
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)1052-3928(2001)127:2(45)

Authors: Bebeau, Muriel J.
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Charlie West, a post-doctoral fellow, is tempted to use in his grant proposal the background section of someone else’s grant proposal. (Related to the Diane Archer case.) Case Study from "Moral Reasoning in Scientific Research" pu...
Year: 1995
URL: http://poynter.indiana.edu/mr/mr-west.pdf

Authors: Bebeau, Muriel J.
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Professor Diane Archer discovers plagiarized materials in a grant proposal submitted by Charlie West, a post-doctoral fellow she knew when he was a graduate student. (Related to the Charlie West case.) Case Study from "Moral Reas...
Year: 1995
URL: http://poynter.indiana.edu/mr/mr-archer.pdf

Authors: Bird, Stephanie J.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science and Engineering Ethics
Abstract: Discusses self-plagiarism, redundant, or dual publication, all names for the act of the publication of one article in multiple journals. This practice not only breaks copyright law (in the case where authors assign copyright to thei...
Year: 2002
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-002-0007-4

Authors: Wiener, Jon
Publication Type: Book
Abstract: In Historians in Trouble, investigative journalist and historian Jon Wiener examines the various history scandals of the last few years....
Year: 2005

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Authors: Pritchard, Michael S.
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Nelson Nice is on the engineering faculty at State University. Three years ago he headed a research project that involved an undergraduate student assistant. At first Jason Smart was enthusiastic about the project. However, as time ...
Year: 1992
URL: http://www.onlineethics.org/cms/12532.aspx

Authors: Sadler, Brook Jenkins
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Teaching Philosophy
Abstract: This article offers ten arguments to demonstrate why student plagiarism is unethical. In sum, plagiarism may be theft; involve deception that treats professors as a mere means; violate the trust upon which the professor-student rela...
Year: 2007

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Authors: Pry, Samuel ; Thomas, Mark L. ; Reilly, Richard
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Teaching Philosophy
Abstract: Plagiarism is often equated with theft, but closer inspection reveals that plagiarism is fundamentally a form of deception. In the case of plagiarism in the classroom, a plagiarist sabotages the instructors ability to make a fair a...
Year: 2007

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Authors: Knock, Ned
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Communications of the ACM
Abstract: The author of the article describes a plagiarism case that happened to him when he found a paper submitted to a prestigious journal was virtually copy of an paper that he had co-authored and published in a research journal months e...
Year: 1999

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Authors: American Occupational Therapy Association ; American Occupational Therapy Foundation
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Two students work together on their master’s research proposal, but divide the work up instead of jointly writing the paper. They put their two different sections together and then edit the paper as a team. When the professor reads...
Year: 2005
URL: http://www.research.umn.edu/ethics/pdf/plagiarismandgroupwork.pdf

Authors: Korenman, Stanley G. ; Shipp, Allan C.
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: In the course of conducting a literature review in order to update a book chapter, a scientist discovers that a department chair at a leading medical school has plagiarized long passages from her chapter. She confronts him....
Year: 1994
URL: http://www.research.umn.edu/ethics/pdf/PlagiarismB6.htm

Authors: Korenman, Stanley G. ; Shipp, Allan C.
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: A postdoctoral fellow and a faculty member co-author a paper which refers to the work of another faculty member, with whom they frequently collaborate. They quoted verbatim from papers the three of them had written together without ...
Year: 1994
URL: http://www.research.umn.edu/ethics/pdf/PlagiarismB7.htm

Authors: Korenman, Stanley G. ; Shipp, Allan C.
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: A faculty member identifies plagiarism in a paper she is asked to review for a journal. The paper is by a former colleague, and the coauthor is the head of the first author`s department....
Year: 1994
URL: http://www.research.umn.edu/ethics/pdf/SharedInterest.htm

Authors: American Physical Society
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: You are a faculty mentor for an international graduate student in your department. He asks you to read an essay for another class before he submits it, and you find that large sections of the essay have been lifted verbatim from the...
Year: 2009
URL: http://www.aps.org/programs/education/ethics/undergraduate/plagarism.cfm

Authors: Sloan, Lloyd ; Rao, Asha ; Martin, Daniel
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Ethics & Behavior
Abstract: Plagiarism is increasingly evident in business and academia. Though links between demographic, personality, and situational factors have been found, previous research has not used actual plagiarism behavior as a criterion variable. ...
Year: 2009
URL: http://www.ethicslibrary.org/resources/158/

Authors: Kallenberg, Brad J.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science & Engineering Ethics
Abstract: This article discusses an instance where a lead researcher at a Midwestern university submitted as his own a document contained multiple instances of plagiarism from a consultant’s masters thesis and replicated a data chart, and was...
Year: 2009
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-009-9129-2

Authors: American Sociological Association
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: A graduate student is caught copying several paragraphs from a published article without attributing the author in a final term paper. The faculty member to whom the paper was submitted wants the student dismissed. Other faculty be...
Year: 2009
URL: http://www.asanet.org/ethics/detail.cfm?id=Case68

Authors: American Sociological Association
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Jennifer Lazarus has received her first invitation to review a book, and decides to select a review written by Donald Harrold to use as a model for her first review. Shortly after her review is published, Professor Harrold notifies...
Year: 2009
URL: http://www.asanet.org/ethics/detail.cfm?id=Case67

Authors: Davis, Michael
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Plagiary: Cross‐Disciplinary Studies in Plagiarism, Fabrication, and Falsification
Abstract: Claiming as one's own what one knows to be the discovery of another is certainly plagiarism. But what about merely failing to acknowledge the work of another where one does not give the impression that the discovery is one's own? Do...
Year: 2006
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/publication/gray-plagiarism.pdf

Authors: Smith, Conley L.
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: When an editor discovers that a columnist is plagiarizing some of her columns. When confronted, the columnist admits her guilt, and pleads with the editor not to make it public. Should the columnist get fired? Should the fact of the...
Year: 1989
URL: http://journalism.indiana.edu/resources/ethics/naming-newsmakers/punishing-plagiarizers/

Authors: Feder, Toni
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Physics Today
Abstract: The article reports that starting in the summer of 2007, all research article submissions to the arXiv, the online server where many physicists check daily for new preprints, will be checked against manuscripts in the existing datab...
Year: 2007
DOI: 10.1063/1.2718750

Publication Type: Guidelines & Regulations
Abstract: This short document gives the U.S. Office of Research Integrity's definition of plagiarism, and explains how this definition applies to the ORI's investigation of misconduct cases. ...
Year: 1994
URL: http://ori.dhhs.gov/policies/plagiarism.shtml

Authors: Duff, Andrea H. ; Rogers, Derek P. ; Harris, Michael B.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: European Journal of Engineering Education
Abstract: This article describes a program to help reduce the level of plagiarism by undergraduate and international students through a collaborative effort between the lecturers and the learning support staff to make cross-cultural assumpti...
Year: 2006
DOI: 10.1080/03043790600911753

Authors: Han, Jennifer C.
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Scenario of a project which stemmed from a student's experience that the rule against collaboration on homework is often violated and the responsibility of whether disciplinary action should be taken or ignored....
Year: 2006
URL: http://www.onlineethics.org/Resources/Cases/cheating.aspx