Crisis on campus : confronting academic misconduct /
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| Author / Creator: | Decoo, Wilfried, 1946- |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2002. ©2002 |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xvii, 262 pages) : illustrations |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Bradford book. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11118465 |
| Summary: | <p> "Crisis on Campus" presents an overview of the phenomenon and handling of academic misconduct. After a brief historical background, it discusses contemporary circumstances that affect the nature and frequency of academic misconduct. It then details the phases of misconduct discovery and investigation: detection, analysis, assessment, reporting, and institutional handling. The final chapter deals with prevention. The book focuses on concrete cases, showing the complexities and ambiguities in dealing with presumed academic misconduct. The book also provides practical advice to both whistle-blowers and those accused of academic misconduct.<p>The book pays special attention to plagiarism as one of the most frequent but also most complex forms of academic misconduct. It analyzes the various degrees of possible plagiarism, detection techniques, challenges in proving plagiarism, and denial tactics. It gives valuable advice on how to report and handle cases of alleged plagiarism, both by students and by professionals. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvii, 262 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references pages (235-253) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0585442819 9780585442815 9780262271370 0262271370 0262042010 9780262042017 |