Easy enough to do, there are 2 or 3 different software programs that are designed to find plagiarism. I worked at a large land-grant research university some years ago and we used one of them to find plagiarized research papers and grant proposals.
I don't recall the exact numbers, but I do know that a few were caught. It's been 7 years since I worked there, and it wasn't my job to look for plagiarized papers, I was a technical editor.
More or less. The software was originally intended for professors to scan student papers for plagiarism, but eventually it evolved into looking at dissertations and theses, and finally grant proposals and research papers. The digital age -- which was supposed to free us all from tiresome, repetitive tasks -- has turned out to be one of minute surveillance of everything.
Easy enough to do, there are 2 or 3 different software programs that are designed to find plagiarism. I worked at a large land-grant research university some years ago and we used one of them to find plagiarized research papers and grant proposals.
What percentage was plagiarized?
I don't recall the exact numbers, but I do know that a few were caught. It's been 7 years since I worked there, and it wasn't my job to look for plagiarized papers, I was a technical editor.
they need to check Dr. Jill's work.
So if it is that easy, that would mean we have a tremendous amount of hypocritical complicity.
Students get expelled, but faculty get promoted.
More or less. The software was originally intended for professors to scan student papers for plagiarism, but eventually it evolved into looking at dissertations and theses, and finally grant proposals and research papers. The digital age -- which was supposed to free us all from tiresome, repetitive tasks -- has turned out to be one of minute surveillance of everything.