- University of Manitoba - Cheating, Plagiarism & Fraud - http://www.umanitoba.ca/student/advocacy/cheating_plagiarism_fraud.shtml
Material to help if you have been accused of or if you suspect someone else of committing an academic offense; and material help understand academic offenses better in order to inadvertently avoid committing them.
- TOPICS Online Magazine for ESL - Academic Dishonesty (Cheating) - http://www.topics-mag.com/edition13/cheating-page.htm
Tutorial of sorts intended primarily for adult ESL students. Includes vocabulary and idioms, photo essay demonstrating cheating techniques, hypothetical situations, a poll, and real-life stories.
- Plagiarism and Academic Integrity - http://www.scc.rutgers.edu/douglass/sal/plagiarism/intro.html
A production of the Rutgers University Libraries. An interactive lesson designed to teach students about avoiding infractions of academic integrity policies and instances of plagiarism. Requires the Flash plugin; best accessed over a fast connection.
- The Infinite Mind: Cheating - http://www.theinfinitemind.com/mind294.htm
Summary of and a link to a radio broadcast discussing cheating in schools, in academia, by primates in general, and in relationships.
- Cheating: An Epidemic - http://privateschool.about.com/cs/forteachers/a/cheating.htm
Short article about academic cheating from about.com
- Wired News: Students Called on SMS Cheating - http://www.wired.com/news/school/0,1383,57484,00.html
Six University of Maryland students have admitted cheating on an accounting exam by using their cell phones to receive text messages with the answers. Another six students were implicated in the case.
- Lucent - Research Review - http://www.lucent.com/news_events/researchreview.html
Results of inquiry into the validity of certain physics research papers from Bell Labs. Independent committee finds one researcher committed scientific misconduct and clears the 19 other authors investigated.
- The Scientist : Fallout from fraud - http://www.biomedcentral.com/news/20041008/03
Fossil algae researcher used plagiarized photographs in his papers for many years before being detected.
- The Claremont Institute: The Fall of an Academic Fraud - http://www.claremont.org/writings/021028.html
Now-former Emory University professor and author manipulated and/or falsified information in order to back assertions made in the book, "Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture."
- Academic Fraud At The U: U Comes Clean - http://www.knightridder.com/papers/greatstories/saintpaul/uofm9.html
A series of stories about major fraud related to academics and the men's basketball program at the University of Minnesota during the 1990s.
- Plagiarism: A Misplaced Emphasis - http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/sts/bmartin/pubs/94jie.html
An article by Brian Martin published in Journal of Information Ethics, 1994. Argues that "concern about plagiarism has been diverted from the most serious and pervasive problems and channelled into excessive concern about less serious problems."
- ACM Ubiquity - In Defense of Cheating - http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v6i11_norman.html
Donald A. Norman argues that cheating is a natural response to much of what the education system thinks is important.
- ACM Ubiquity - PCs in the Classroom & Open Book Exams - http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v6i9_golub.html
Open-book exams compared/contrasted with open-internet exams and issues related to cheating via computer. Article by Evan Golub, Department of Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction Lab, University of Maryland.
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