Re: [LM_NET] A new way to plagiarize using Wikipedia?

[Shonda Brisco <sbrisco@FWCDS.ORG>]

So the idea is to write an article for Wikipedia and let the editors clean it up 
for you?

For those schools that have Turnitin.com in place, the article should be picked up 
as "plagiarized" from the Internet and eliminated for credit.  However, with this 
type of free cheating advice being made available to students, it's important that 
we understand all that is involved and how to create testing situations (including 
writing assignments) that include caveats that "no previous publication of essays 
or written assignments made public on the Internet or other online source will be 
accepted for credit."  

We will have to provide conditions that eliminate the possibility of 
pre-publication scenarios from occuring and educate our teachers about how students 
might use these new "editing programs" to make their work more appealing to the 
online readers....(I keep thinking of the EPIC 2014 video with the statement of 
"everyone will become journalists and editors"---we continue to move in that 
direction.  Are we ready?)

~Shonda







Shonda Brisco, MLIS
US / Technology Librarian
Fort Worth Country Day School
Fort Worth, TX
sbrisco@fwcds.org

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