LIE OF THE LAND
By RITA DELFINER, New York Post Online Edition
October 22, 2004

"Nearly all U.S. high school students talk the talk that honesty is the best policy--while at the same time, many of them are lying, cheating and stealing, according to a new study. A national survey of 24,763 high-schoolers found 62 percent of them admitted cheating on a school test in the past 12 months, 27 percent stole something from a store during that period, and 40 percent admit they 'sometimes lie to save money.' In a telling twist, nearly a third didn't even tell the truth on the integrity survey--29 percent of the students polled by the Josephson Institute of Ethics 'fessed up to fibbing on one or two of the more than 60 questions."

The Borrowers
Reviewed by Mark Lewis, washingtonpost.com
November 14, 2004; Page BW04

PAST IMPERFECT
Facts, Fictions, Fraud -- American History from Bancroft and Parkman to Ambrose, Bellesiles, Ellis, and Goodwin
By Peter Charles Hoffer. PublicAffairs. 287 pp. $26

SCANDALS AND SCOUNDRELS
Seven Cases That Shook the Academy
By Ron Robin. Univ. of California. 277 pp. Paperback, $19.95

Lipson delves into academic dishonesty
By Yuefan Weng, Chicago Maroon
October 28, 2004

"Hongtae Kim, a second-year economics concentrator, is the perfect candidate to read political science professor Charles Lipson's new book Doing Honest Work in College. 'I actually had an experience in cheating before, Kim said. But even though I was not caught, I felt horrible afterward and I now believe that we are mature enough to be responsible for our own work.' In an interview, Lipson said the Internet has created a resource arena with no clear ownership rights, resulting in a virtual free-for-all forum for students to garner fraudulent information and papers."

Is cheating a necessary survival tool?
News Sentinel | 10/25/2004 |
By Mike Manuel in the South Side Times

"Nearly a quarter of a century ago, if you cheated in school, you were looked down upon, not only by your teachers and parents but also by your peers as well. Those who accompanied daily life around you made sure that the traditional morals and ethics of the learning atmosphere were protected on a day-to-day basis. Obviously, this has dramatically changed since the mid-1900s."

WHEN ACADEMIC DISHONESTY
HAPPENS ON YOUR CAMPUS
by Karén L. Clos, Dean of Learning & Instruction
Barton County Community College, Great Bend, KS
Innovation Abstracts, The University of Texas at Austin

Lipson authors student guide on honesty in academic work

By William Harms, News Office
University of Chicago Chronicle

"College students throughout the country have a new book to add to their collections of dictionaries and other essential reference materials-the first-ever guide to avoiding cheating and plagiarism. The guide focuses considerable attention on Web-based research, where much of today's troubles begin"

Mediaphor Plagiarism- Finder 1.0.9

Thursday 18, November 2004
By Matthew Overington, apcmag.com

"Finally, teachers gain an ally in the ongoing war on plagiarism. For years, teachers have been fighting plagiarism, but with the advent of the Internet, the battle seemed lost forever.

German software house Mediaphor is turning the tables on would-be cheats with Plagiarism-Finder, a program designed to scour online articles for designated quotes and snippets."

DEAR PLAGIARISTS: YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR.
Pediatrics. Nov. 2004, Vol. 114 Issue 5, p1211
Source: EBSCOhost Academic Search Premier

Subject Terms:
*PLAGIARISM
*INTERNET fraud
*INTERNET
*WEB sites

Geographic Terms: UNITED States

Abstract: "Focuses on the prevalence of Internet plagiarism in the U.S. Initiative to deal with Web site plagiarism; Advocacy of college students to Internet plagiarism."

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Students can avoid falling into plagiarism trap
By HILARY COSTA, The California Aggie

A student view from University of California, Davis.