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| Oct 27, 2023 at 5:29 | comment | added | tripleee | (SRV == Stevie Ray Vaughan, apparently?) | |
| Oct 7, 2022 at 21:32 | comment | added | CubicInfinity | It's not hard to tell the difference between a student that has leaned the concepts and one that hasn't. IMO, learning and integrity are the only things that truly matter and grading should be based on that. Students already struggle when they get into college and find that things aren't as structured for them as they were in high school. It frustrates me that so many college courses continue this unnecessary rigid structure that does them little favor in most industries. | |
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| May 22, 2014 at 13:43 | comment | added | Floris | @jsl4980 note that there is a HUGE difference between plagiarism (claiming as your own) and attributed use of open source (non copyrighted) material. As described, this policy condemns the former and condones the latter. It shows no sign of leniency towards plagiarism (or are you saying "apparent plagiarism gets little to no credit") is too lenient? | |
| Nov 17, 2011 at 17:34 | comment | added | JohnMcG | I just included that comment verbatim in a paper I submitted so I guess we'll find out (;-) | |
| Nov 13, 2011 at 1:28 | comment | added | barrowc |
Every page on here says user contributions licensed under cc-wiki with attribution required. If you take something non-trivial from here and use it verbatim in your own work (whether as a student or otherwise) without attributing it correctly to the author and to SE then you would be in breach of that licence, would you not?
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| Jul 6, 2010 at 0:51 | comment | added | eruciform | I'm also a computer science professor, and this is similar to my policy as well. As long as they correctly cite something, they can use any source. That being said, if, after they've turned it in, there are so many citations or it's otherwise obvious that most of the work was done by others, I reserve the right to ask them to redo the project from scratch, using what they've learned, but not using so much help this time. It's usually obvious if they misuse this policy, especially if they have a lot of trouble with the same concept on the very next project. They can't hide it forever. :-) | |
| Jun 19, 2009 at 6:50 | comment | added | Anonymous | Yes, in a literature course, I can use resources, and quote them, and I must cite them and give proper credit. I share your viewpoint in that credit must be given, just as with any other resource. This seems like a guideline to impose on students. | |
| Apr 15, 2009 at 7:09 | comment | added | Newtopian | This being said, students should sometimes be reminded that the homework was about programming, not net surfing thus even if all sources were cited the grades are on the actual work done towards that goal... That's how we did it when grading papers, it was well accepted by both students and staff | |
| Apr 15, 2009 at 7:07 | comment | added | Newtopian | wow, sbeen a while but still... yes on agressive plagiarism policies BUT how many different permutations of hello world can you make before stubling on someone else's, thus citing sources is NOT plagiarism. | |
| Feb 9, 2009 at 4:25 | comment | added | Chris Ballance | I like your policy. Programming most certainly is a team sport. | |
| Dec 3, 2008 at 15:58 | comment | added | Dan Blair | I have to agree with jsl4980. Now it did lead to some interesting problems, I inserted a quotation from SRV into one of my programs and cited it. This lead to my having to explain why I "stole" Java code from a guy who died before Java existed. Neither the prof nor the TA were from the US. | |
| Oct 23, 2008 at 23:11 | comment | added | acrosman | I agree with jsl4980, plagiarism should be handled aggressively (my college expelled students for the first offense. That said, I think having guidelines like this that make clear limits on what's in and what's out are very helpful for avoiding plagiarism in the first place. | |
| Oct 23, 2008 at 20:28 | comment | added | JohnMcG | Well, where I am is further down in the academic chain such that we see the students as "customers." | |
| Oct 23, 2008 at 20:26 | comment | added | jsl4980 | That's an incredibly lenient policy on plagiarism. My school had an automatic 'zero' for anything that included plagiarism and any cheating was reported to the dean of the college. On a second offense students could be removed from the program. | |
| Oct 23, 2008 at 19:11 | comment | added | Greg D | You should add a parenthetical: "(<I/Your grader> knows how to use google, too.)" After only a semester of grading Automata homework, it was really easy to separate the googlers from the people who actually did their homework. | |
| Oct 23, 2008 at 17:40 | history | answered | JohnMcG | CC BY-SA 2.5 |