1. Academic integrity Plagiarism in written assignments is:
Copying anything from anybody into your work
But brief quotes are OK, as long as you give credit to the author
Plagiarism in programming assignments is:
Copying code from other students or teams
Downloading code from the web and claiming that you wrote it
But the instructor may provide some code that everyone can use
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2. Why it’s important to write your own stuff
Learning!
Looks good, less work, but no learning
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3. Academic integrity - 2 Plagiarism is a problem: Some solutions:
Several academic dishonesty charges have occurred during the last few terms
Students have been dismissed
Some solutions:
Turnitin setup information (650)
Turnitin setup information (655)
MOSS
Any source files on einstein must be readable only by you
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4. How turnitin.com works I create a class and assignments
I provide signup information
You create an account (if necessary)
You join the class
You submit a written assignment
Turnitin creates an originality report
(if necessary) you revise your assignment and re-submit it to the revision assignment; turnitin creates an originality report for the revision
I review your originality report and decide if the matching in it is OK
I download your assignment from turnitin and grade it
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5. Examples: plagiarism and quoting
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6. This is OK
BOINC is optimized for academic projects that need a lot of computing power but don’t have a lot of money. According to the web site,
“Scientists with computationally-intensive tasks may be able to use BOINC. A BOINC project requires just a single Linux server, and can provide computing power equivalent to a cluster with tens of thousands of CPUs.” [4]
Some of the projects that have used BOINC …
BOINC’s text
Quotes
Reference
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7. This is also OK
BOINC is optimized for academic projects that need a lot of computing power but don’t have a lot of money. Scientific projects are often in this category. To use BOINC, a project only has to buy one Linux server, which can coordinate tens of thousands of volunteer computers. [4]
Some of the projects that have used BOINC …
BOINC’s idea,
expressed in your
own words
Reference
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8. This is PLAGIARISM
BOINC is optimized for academic projects that need a lot of computing power but don’t have a lot of money. Scientists with computationally-intensive tasks may be able to use BOINC. A BOINC project requires just a single Linux server, and can provide computing power equivalent to a cluster with tens of thousands of CPUs.
Some of the projects that have used BOINC …
BOINC’s text, looking like you wrote it
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9. This is PLAGIARISM also
BOINC is optimized for academic projects that need a lot of computing power but don’t have a lot of money. Scientists with computationally-intensive tasks may be able to use BOINC. A BOINC project requires just a single Linux server, and can provide computing power equivalent to a cluster with tens of thousands of CPUs. [4]
Some of the projects that have used BOINC …
Reference, but nothing
that shows it’s a quote
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10. Yet more PLAGIARISM
BOINC is optimized for academic projects that need a lot of computing power but don’t have a lot of money. Scientists with computationally-intensive tasks can use BOINC. A BOINC project requires only a single Linux server. The basic principle is that many hands make light work —and at lower cost.
Some of the projects that have used BOINC …
BOINC’s text with a couple of words changed
Copied from a
different web
site
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11. Some rules You can quote, but the quotes MUST BE
Introduced as quotes
Set off with quotation marks
Referenced
Brief
Reference text will often match other documents
Rubric text will often match other papers
Scattered, isolated accidental matches may occur
ANY OTHER COPYING IS FORBIDDEN
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12. More rules You should supply references if you
Borrowed an idea and expressed it in your own words
Want to use the reference to support your point
Bottom line guideline: if your paper has more than 25% matching, there’s a good chance that I will ask you to revise it.
Common revisions:
Remove excess quotes
Shorten quotes
Remove rubric text
Re-write sections with high matching
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