Hello, fellow classmates and random internet followers. I have a question for you – what would YOU want to know about what the graduate students here at Virginia Tech know/understand about the Graduate Honor Code? We are currently working on our final project for our Academic Integrity and Plagiarism course which is a survey that we are designing for graduate…
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Blogging’s Implications for Us All
Yesterday, the CHE published an article concerning the intersection of academic and social media. It contains a couple of bold tips to keep in mind when posting on sites such as Facebook, Twitter, or blogging. I thought that this needed to be shared due to how it touches on the communications we are all putting out onto the internet.…
Week 3: Falsification Case Study
I’m basing this initial analysis off of my gut level reaction instead of anything available in an honor code. I’m planning on coming back later after studying the honor code in more depth and adding an update. 1. I think that the committee should determine what the timeline of events is, and why the committee did not discover this on…
Thoughts on Self-Plagarism
Self-plagarism might be one of the trickiest things that an author can struggle with in academia. It seems much easier to remember to cite someone else’s work when writing an article than your own. It also seems easy to reuse the same words and phrases that have already been floating in your own head without realizing it. The definition of…
Copyright Information
Hi, all! My research group has been mulling over the question of the self-plagarism issues recently, and sought out information from the university librarians on the subject. The following link (http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/copyright/cprtetd.html) shed some light on the situation for us, and I just wanted to pass it along to everyone else in the class as well!