{"id":2901,"date":"2010-08-20T01:26:11","date_gmt":"2010-08-20T06:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/?p=2901"},"modified":"2010-08-20T01:26:11","modified_gmt":"2010-08-20T06:26:11","slug":"a-defense-of-cheating-in-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/2010\/08\/20\/a-defense-of-cheating-in-college\/","title":{"rendered":"A Defense of Cheating in College?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I really think that on some level our students don&#8217;t understand plagiarism the way we do\/did.\u00a0 But you can&#8217;t have this conversation with most faculty who view plagiarism as if it were a capital crime.\u00a0 It is a grave offense that undermines the work of the academy, but saying it&#8217;s really bad doesn&#8217;t change the culture our 18 year olds bring to the university.\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/08\/02\/education\/02cheat.html?ref=us&amp;pagewanted=all\">Trip Gabriel<\/a> has an interesting piece in the New York Times on the rise in plagiarism.\u00a0 This passage, really stood out to me:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Now we have a whole generation of <strong>students who\u2019ve grown up with  information that just seems to be hanging out there in cyberspace and  doesn\u2019t seem to have an author<\/strong>,\u201d said Teresa Fishman, director  of the Center for Academic Integrity at Clemson University. \u201cIt\u2019s  possible to believe this information is just out there for anyone to  take.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Do you think this argument excuses plagiarism among our students?\u00a0 How do you address it at your institutions?<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F~r%2Fmatthewyglesias%2F~3%2FFPdy2h25WMg%2F\">Matt Yglesias<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really think that on some level our students don&#8217;t understand plagiarism the way we do\/did.\u00a0 But you can&#8217;t have this conversation with most faculty who view plagiarism as if it were a capital crime.\u00a0 It is a grave offense that undermines the work of the academy, but saying it&#8217;s really bad doesn&#8217;t change the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[158,43,140],"class_list":["post-2901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cheating","tag-college","tag-internet"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2901"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2903,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2901\/revisions\/2903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}