Korean Job Discussion Forums

[hogwonguy1979]

anybody got any good info on sites/software that will go through a students paper and check for plagarism.

Got several group reports here and I already found one where the group copied straight off of wikipedia.

If this keeps up it will make my grade curve for the class a lot easier to deal with

[Son Deureo!]

Typing a sentence or two into Google has exposed a few plagiarists for me.

[ChopChaeJoe]

[Novernae]

I do the google thing, too. Put quotes around it for more concise results.
I had a 50 year old student in Argentina who couldn't string together a sentence and handed in a final paper that was so perfectly that there was not a single mistake in all eloquent 20 pages, including the use of some pretty advance punctuation. It was so beautifully written that only a few native speakers in the world are capable of such concise, flowing prose. I found the original, printed it out, showed it to him next to his own (handwritten on looseleaf) with the director sitting next to me and he still denied copying it. What did he think, that the person who had written it a few years earlier had traveled in time to Argentina to invisibly look over his shoulder while he was painstakingly looking up every word in his dictionary and checking every bit of grammar only to return to the past, type it out, and publish it on some obscure website? How stupid do people really think their teachers are? We offered to let him rewrite it in school with no penalty, but he refused. He left the school without his diploma (translation) and last I heard he had somehow scored a teaching job. oy!

[Hyeon Een]

If I receive suspiciously good or weird writing homework I copy a couple of sentences and do a search at naver.com (korean web portal). I invariably find the source.

[laogaiguk]

While plagerism is a horrible thing, the thing that always angers me the most is when it's so bloody obvious that they copied it. I used google too to find them out. It's almost an insult to my intelligence

[Woland]

A friend of mine, director fo the writing center at a major US university, once caused a certain amount of outrage among her academic colleagues by writing about plagiarism in an in-house newsletter something to this effect:

If an assignment can be downloaded from the internet, maybe it should be.

Food for thought.

[the_beaver]

[rothkowitz]

So.........how's that different from photocopying or copying findings/research from a book?

Wasn't ok before,it's not ok now,whatever the technology if you can't show how you got there.

Nonetheless,plenty do and with a plethora of sources now-though not necessarily better than those commonly referenced,it's easier if not always better to plagiarise.

At least people ought to paraphrase in order to make it their own a little.

Anyhoo...if someone puts in their own time it shows-style or signature,argument et al.

[laogaiguk]

[Novernae]

[Hollywoodaction]

There are internet services that will investigate plagiarism, but I'd guess costs would add up pretty quickly given that many Korean students are prone to plagiarism.

To add to the Google advice...You could try calculating lexical density if you think that two students have copied off of each other, but it's not an easy task to do.

[Woland]

[JeJuJitsu]

http://www.plagiarism.com/screening.htm

works great--but other than buying it, maybe look at a torrent site or two (hehe, pirating plagiarism software, hehe).

But prepare yourself for sadnessot trouble--I have a friend who teachers University here, and uses this software, who graded a research assignment last term, and found only 4 papers out of 300 that were NOT plagiarized. When they say it's common in Korea, that's putting it mildly. It's absolutely standard practice. Also, he was almost fired when he tried to tell/show his data to those in charge.

[Hollywoodaction]