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Discipline: An Academic Dean's Perspective On Dealing With Plagiarism, Kevin J. Worthen
Discipline: An Academic Dean's Perspective On Dealing With Plagiarism, Kevin J. Worthen
Brigham Young University Education and Law Journal
Three months after I was convinced by our very persuasive Dean that, contrary to my first thought, being an Associate Academic Dean was not such a dumb idea, I was confronted with a situation that reinforced my initial impression. On my desk sat a paper submitted by a student in a law school course. More than one-half of the paper was copied word for word without any attribution being given. Dozens of other lines contained material that should have been included in quotation marks, but was not. Some of the material quoted without attribution came from sources cited in other …
How Educators Can More Effectively Understand And Combat The Plagiarism Epidemic, David A. Thomas
How Educators Can More Effectively Understand And Combat The Plagiarism Epidemic, David A. Thomas
Brigham Young University Education and Law Journal
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Law Student Plagiarism: Why It Happens, Where It's Found, And How To Find It, Kristin Gerdy
Law Student Plagiarism: Why It Happens, Where It's Found, And How To Find It, Kristin Gerdy
Brigham Young University Education and Law Journal
The author explores why law students plagiarize and how to detect it using both personal and technological methods.
Copyright And Information Theory: Toward An Alternative Model Of "Authorship", Alan L. Durham
Copyright And Information Theory: Toward An Alternative Model Of "Authorship", Alan L. Durham
BYU Law Review
Both literary scholars and students of copyright law have challenged the romantic model of authorship, a model emphasizing individual genius and creation ex nihilo. Authorship, they argue, is actually a collaborative effort. Authors assemble their works from the fragments of their cultural environment, transforming as much as creating. Copyright law, however, still champions the rights of authors and it requires a coherent theory of what authorship is. An alternative to the romantic model of authorship can be found in information theory, a branch of mathematics dealing, at a very fundamental level, with all forms of communication. Authorship could be defined …