I've decided to post useful links to resources, blogs, that I found useful or interesting. Here are some recent ones:
Tulip (Visual Analytical software)-based research: http://tulip.labri.fr/TulipDrupal/?q=bibliography
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Sunday, July 17, 2011
On Teacher-Student Relationship (AKA ways to avoid plagiarism)
It always amazes me to read professors writing about their frustrating experience in dealing with plagiarism (today, another one made it to HackerNews,). The good outcome from that post is that professor in the end finds at least some alternatives (than writing-essays and completing-excel type) homeworks for his students, congrats&well done. Also, It's good to know that text analysis is now actually being applied, and seems to work pretty well (in Turnitin). However, as one that is standing in the bridge between a student and a professor (I was TA once, probably will be again next year), and one that often reminisce on my student days, I just want to entertain my readers with thoughts from my perspective--which I think are in-your-face obvious, but I have yet to see them been posted.
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"Do the students know what is plagiarism?" Of course they do. Before entering college, AP classes and even just the normal high school homework can be in similar formats as the ones in universities. Let's face it. No one needs to dig into the different levels of plagiarism, we all know what it is. Do they know the risk? For the ones that haven't been called on it, probably not at a personal level. But on paper, they all know that bad things will happen if the professor finds out the copy&pasting behavior.
When writing an essay, technical or not, it should be just as if you are writing a letter to your family, or a diary. It should comes from you, your own thoughts, your organization of what you see, hear, know and understand. No one would copy & paste snippets of text from various sources that doesn't even have a smooth logic flow and send it to their distant beloved as a "my life is great, how about you" message.
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"then why do student still plagiarize?"
1.
"Do the students know what is plagiarism?" Of course they do. Before entering college, AP classes and even just the normal high school homework can be in similar formats as the ones in universities. Let's face it. No one needs to dig into the different levels of plagiarism, we all know what it is. Do they know the risk? For the ones that haven't been called on it, probably not at a personal level. But on paper, they all know that bad things will happen if the professor finds out the copy&pasting behavior.
When writing an essay, technical or not, it should be just as if you are writing a letter to your family, or a diary. It should comes from you, your own thoughts, your organization of what you see, hear, know and understand. No one would copy & paste snippets of text from various sources that doesn't even have a smooth logic flow and send it to their distant beloved as a "my life is great, how about you" message.
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"then why do student still plagiarize?"
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