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Plagiarism Lines Blur for Students in Digital Age At Rhode Island College, a freshman copied and pasted from a Web site’s fr
Plagiarism Lines Blur for Students in Digital Age At Rhode Island College, a freshman copied and pasted from a Web site’s fr
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Plagiarism Lines Blur for Students in Digital Age
At Rhode Island College, a freshman copied and pasted from a Web site’s frequently asked questions page about homelessness—and did not think he needed to credit a source in his assignment because the page did not include author information.
At DePaul University, the tip-off (爆料) to one student’s copying was the purple shade of several paragraphs he had lifted from the Web; when confronted by a writing tutor his professor had sent him to, he was not defensive—he just wanted to know how to change purple text to black.
And at the University of Maryland, a student critisized for copying from Wikipedia in a paper on the Great Depression said he thought its entries—unsigned and collectively written—did not need to be credited since they counted, essentially, as common knowledge.
Professors used to deal with plagiarism(抄袭) by warning students to give credit to others to follow the style guide for citations, and pretty much left it at that.
But these cases—typical ones, according to writing tutors and officials responsible for discipline at the three schools who described the plagiarism—suggest that many students simply do not grasp that using words they did not write is a serious misdeed.
It is a disconnect that is growing in the Internet age as concepts of intellectual property, copyright and originality are under attack in the ungoverned exchange of online information, say educators who study plagiarism
Digital technology makes copying and pasting easy, of course. But that is the least of it. The Internet may also be redefining how students—who came of age with music file-sharing, Wikipedia and Web-linking— understand the concept of authorship and the singularity of any text or image.
"Now we have a whole generation of students who’ve grown up with information that just seems to be hanging out there in cyberspace and doesn’t seem to have an author," said Teresa Fishman, director of the Center for Academic Integrity at Clemson University. "It’s possible to believe this information is just out there for anyone to take. "
Professors who have studied plagiarism do not try to excuse it—many are champions of academic honesty on their campuses—but rather try to understand why it is so widespread.
In surveys from 2006 to 2010 by Donald L. McCabe, a co-founder of the Center for Academic Integrity and a business professor at Rutgers University, about 40 percent of 14,000 undergraduates admitted to copying a few sentences in written assignments.
Perhaps more significant, the number who believed that copying from the Web constitutes "serious cheating" is declining—to 29 percent on average in recent surveys from 34 percent earlier in the decade.
Sarah Brookover, a senior at the Rutgers campus in Camden. N.J., said many of her classmates blithely (无忧无虑地) cut and paste without attribution.
"This generation has always existed in a world where media and intellectual property don’t have the same gravity," said Ms. Brookover, who at 31 is older than most undergraduates. "When you’re sitting at your computer, it’s the same machine you’ve downloaded music with, possibly illegally, the same machine you streamed videos for free that showed on HBO last night. "
Ms. Brookover, who works at the campus library, has pondered the differences between researching in the stacks and online. "Because you’re not walking into a library, you’re not physically holding the article, which takes you closer to ’this doesn’t belong to me,’" she said. Online, "everything can belong to you really easily. "
A University of Notre Dame anthropologist, Susan D. Blum, disturbed by the high rates of reported plagiarism, set out to understand how students view authorship and the written word. or "texts" in Ms. Blum’s academic language.
She conducted her ethnographic research among 234 Notre Dame undergraduates. "Today’s students have a new concept of conceiving texts and the people who create them and who quote them," she wrote last year in the book "My Word!: Plagiarism and College Culture," published by Cornell University Press.
Ms. Blum argued that student writing exhibits some of the same qualities of pastiche(混成品) that drive other creative endeavors today—TV shows that constantly reference other shows or rap music that samples from earlier songs.
In an interview, she said the idea of an author whose singular effort creates an original work is rooted in Enlightenment ideas of the individual. It is based on the Western concept of intellectual property rights as secured by copyright law. But both traditions arc being challenged.
"Our notion of authorship and originality was born, it flourished, and it may be waning," Ms. Blum said.
She contends that undergraduates are less interested in cultivating a unique and authentic identity—as their 1960s counterparts were—than in trying on many different personas(角色), which the Web enables with social networking.
"If you are not so worried about presenting yourself as absolutely unique, then it’s O.K. if you say other people’s words, it’s O. K. if you say things you don’t believe, it’s O. K. if you write papers you couldn’t care less about because they accomplish the task, which is turning something in and getting a grade," Ms. Blum said, voicing student attitudes. "And it’s O. K. if you put words out there without getting any credit."
The notion that there might be a new model young person, who freely borrows from the vortex of information to mash up a new creative work, fueled a brief disturbance earlier this year with Helene Hegemann, a German teenager whose best-selling novel about Berlin club life turned out to include passages lifted from others.
Instead of offering a poor apology, Ms. Hegemann insisted, "There’s no such thing as originality anyway, just authenticity." A few critics rose to her defense, and the book remained a finalist for a fiction prize (but did not win).
That theory does not wash with Sarah Wilensky, a senior at Indiana University, who said that relaxing plagiarism standards "does not foster creativity, it fosters laziness."
"You’re not coming up with new ideas if you’re grabbing and mixing and matching," said Ms. Wilensky, who took aim at Ms. Hegemann in a column in her student newspaper headlined "Generation Plagiarism."
"It may be increasingly accepted, but there are still plenty of creative people—authors and artists and scholars—who are doing original work," Ms. Wilensky said in an interview. "It’s kind of an insult that that ideal is gone, and now we’re left only to make paste-ups of the work of previous generations."
In the view of Ms. Wilensky, whose writing skills earned her the role of informal editor of other students’ papers in her freshman dorm, plagiarism has nothing to do with trendy academic theories.
The main reason it occurs, she said, is because students leave high school unprepared for the intellectual rigors of college writing.
"If you’re taught how to closely read sources and synthesize them into your own original argument in middle and high school, you’re not going to be tempted to plagiarize in college, and you certainly won’t do so unknowingly," she said.
Teresa Fishman believes that ______.
选项
A、it is acceptable for unsigned information hanging in cyberspace
B、it is necessary for unsigned information signed in cyberspace
C、it is reasonable for students to take information unsigned
D、it is advisable for anyone to take information unsigned freely
答案
C
解析
根据题干关键词Teresa Fishman定位到第八段,根据最后一句:“It’s possible to believe this information is just out there for anyone to take.”可知,Teresa Fishman认为学生抄袭信息而不注明出处的做法是可以理解的,因为网络上的信息谁都可以随便拿来用,故选C
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