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| diwas k |
Posted
on 12-Jul-01 09:41 AM
visit this site to learn what happens when people plagiarize in amrika....
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/193/nation/MGH_scientist_plagiarized_US_says+.shtml
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| Kali Prasad |
Posted
on 12-Jul-01 02:40 PM
This is scary. The main reason for this kind of act is due to constant pressure in academia to excel and be better than other. If you are a tenure track assistant professor, you have to publish journal articles to be tenured. So people do every single imaginable stupid things hoping that they do not get caught and get the benefit out of it. The world is too small (mainly due to internet now) so you better not do any thing with myopic sight.
This also provides a lesson to graduate and undergraduate students. I know due to time crunch some of you may copy and paste things from internet, but the punishment for this kind of act is very severe in the schools I attended. Since I know few people who have gone through that pain, I felt it may be beneficial for some of you to hear it again.
Work hard and try to be original.
Cheers,
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| Biswo |
Posted
on 12-Jul-01 11:53 PM
Btw, Are we likely to know what happened to our homegrown
plagiarists?
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| the real ashu |
Posted
on 13-Jul-01 12:58 AM
Economic reasoning tells us that:
Americans are NO MORE or NO LESS moral/ethical
than us Nepalis.
But all things being equal, the COST of being found out
as a plagiarist is too HIGH in the US.
You lose your job, ruin your reputation, and basically you are finished as a professional. And so, most professionals in the US
simply cannot afford to be found out as a plagiarist.
But the COST of being found out as a plagiarist is TOO
LOW in Nepal.
Anyone can afford to be a plagiarist and still do "well".
I mean, your job isn't axed. Your reputation seems to stay
sort of intact, you still get assignments, and on and on
and on.
So, if our editors/researchers are serious about combating RAMPANT plagiarism in Nepal, then their first challenge is to raise the COST of being found out as a plagiarist so high that
most people simply would not be able to afford to be
plagiarists.
Else, moral urging alone is not going to go far.
oohi
ashu
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