Plagiarising Works

[MissCroft]

I know it's different but when I was in university I took a course in Linguistic Anthropology and the following year one in Anthropological Linguistics. I soon realized that it was almost the same course with similar assignments and exams. So, yes, I probably plagiarized my own work. If the two departments were too silly to realize that they were essentially offering the same course then I did nothing wrong. OR they were guilty of plagiarism by basically duplicating the same course.

 

[explorerzip]

We're ok with that but why is the law firm charging a separate fee each time for the same opinion? Each subsequent opinion is an exact photocopy of the first.

I would think that each prospectus represents a different company. That would mean 1 prospectus is billed to one company, and the other prospectus is charged to another even if it is identical.

 

[Occasionally]

Not a problem to me. It's his own work.

All the profs have to do is mark the two papers against the objectives of the project he was assigned as exclusive submissions.

What are the chances one paper would succeed vs. two separate tests? Who knows.

What we won't know is if the two papers would still do well. If they did, it goes to show how stupid the school is for having tests/assignments so close to each other that a single submission can cover two tests.

 

[Steve Harper]

From the University of Toronto's Code of Behaviour on Academic matters (click the link at the bottom of this link for the pdf of the code):
http://www.utm.utoronto.ca/academic-integrity/code-behaviour-academic-matters

"s. 1(e) It shall be an offense for a student knowingly to submit without the knowledge or approval of the instructor to whom it is submitted, any academic work for which credit has been previously obtained or is being sought in another course or program of study..."

Regardless of the logic and rational of any arguments in the posts above, UofT says that you just can't do it as it is an academic offense. I'm pretty sure other reputable academic institutions have similar codes. If you've been to university or college, you should already have been aware of it.

 

[fuji]

If you've been to university or college, you should already have been aware of it.

Indeed. Post 1 provided a data point in that regard.

 

[nondescriptive]

lol, John Fogerty was sued for "plagiarizing" John Fogerty, in the end Fogerty was found innocent


http://mentalfloss.com/article/27501/time-john-fogerty-was-sued-ripping-john-fogerty

 

[legmann]

plagiarism is passing someone else's idea off as your own
Where did this bizarre notion you could self plagiarise ever come from?

It may not be 'plagiarism' in the conventional sense, but the point remains that it is against most universities' policy to (re)submit work for which you have already received credit. Little to debate in that regard.

John Fogerty was sued for "plagiarizing" John Fogerty, in the end Fogerty was found innocent

The record company (legitimately) owned the rights to his work, not he (regardless of trial outcome).
There is much more awareness among artists of retaining control over publishing today; not so back then.

 

[TeeJay]

Regardless of the logic and rational of any arguments in the posts above, UofT says that you just can't do it as it is an academic offense. I'm pretty sure other reputable academic institutions have similar codes. If you've been to university or college, you should already have been aware of it.

I've been through 2 different uni & never heard that before
Now in truth I never once bothered to read the school policies but still think it is a ridiculous position

As to the other side of that coin, I have personally witnessed teachers recycling lesson plans & in one severe circumstance we had a very prolonged argument with a certain teacher who was teaching outdated (incorrect) material in a class

 

[basketcase]

I've been through 2 different uni & never heard that before...

It's not new. Been around for decades

 

[someone]

Whether it is proper to call "self-plagiarism", plagiarism could be debated. However, what is not debatable is that it is cheating and against the rules of every university I have worked at. The intention of giving students assignments is so they can learn something them. They do not learn anything if they are self-plagiarizing. Thus, it is against the rules. Someone would have to not be very smart not to know it was against the rules. I am on the Academic Integrity Committee at my university and we regularly convict students who have committed self-plagiarism. Academics also can get in trouble if they self- self-plagiarize by submitting the same paper to different journals.

 

[Cassini]

The universities do not permit you to submit the same assignment in two different courses.

However, if you really wanted to be an annoy the university, you could do is post your paper on a web-site that you owned, under do not redistribute for turnitin.com license conditions. Then, if you got in trouble for plagiarizing, you could:
a) claim that it was your work,
b) secondary publishing is allowed (by the university), and
c) sue turnitin.com for stealing the copy off the website.

Hint: make sure the website is in the US, so you can sue for statutory damages.

 

[basketcase]

The universities do not permit you to submit the same assignment in two different courses.

However, ....

Doesn't do a thing. When you first submit the work to the university it is theirs to do with as they wish no matter what you say on some website. The second time you submit that work you are violating their academic code of conduct.

 

[MissCroft]

As to the other side of that coin, I have personally witnessed teachers recycling lesson plans & in one severe circumstance we had a very prolonged argument with a certain teacher who was teaching outdated (incorrect) material in a class

This.