What goes around comes around Basic information Target
What goes around comes around
Basic information • Target audience: Graduate Students • Summary: The results of plagiarism • Objective: To help students consider the consequences of plagiarism in graduate studies. • Length: 30 minutes
Learning Outcomes • The learners will be familiar with the legal results and sanctions stemming from plagiarism. • The learners will be able to illustrate the importance of receiving training in every aspect of academic integrity.
The story § Black Pirate was a graduate student at Eastern Grape University. Although he was not a very successful student at the department, he was favoured by some of the faculty members due to his political connections. § Moreover, he did not regularly attend graduate courses. His favourite occupation was spending his time in some faculty members’ offices gossiping about other faculty members in the department. § What is worse, he falsely accused people of plagiarized their work! Source: https: //www. pexels. com/photo/selectivefocus-photography-of-skeleton-1528375/
The story § Mr. Pirate always thought that his political connections would help him hide his academic dishonesty. Source: https: //www. pexels. com/photo/silhouette-of-man 1480690/
The story § As Mr. Pirate did not attend most of his graduate classes and especially an academic writing course, he was not aware of the consequences of academic dishonesty in graduate work. § He was doing his Ph. D at the department of Urkic language. Trusting in his political power, he plagiarized from a Ph. D dissertation written in Rench Land University. The only thing he did was to translate from Rench language into Urkic language and adapt it to his context. § He was able to complete his thesis only in 2 months. Source: https: //www. pexels. com/photo/man-personrelaxation-steps-4129/
The story § Mr. Pirate submitted his Ph. D thesis. § Neither his Ph. D advisor nor the Ph. D committee had concerns related to plagiarism issues in his text. § That was, actually, the beginning of the end. Source: https: //www. pexels. com/photo/dead-end-road-sign 1469196/
The story § Dr. Black Pirate found a very good position at Neverfail University. § He continued to have bad manners there § He accused other faculty members of plagiarism. § He mobbed others. § He suppressed others by using his political connections when they complained. § One day, a clever academic searched Dr. Pirate’s academic background and found something shocking! Source: https: //www. pexels. com/photo/adult-blurbusiness-close-up-239548/
The story § That academic revealed that Dr. Pirate’s thesis was translated and adapted from another thesis. Source: https: //www. pexels. com/photo/ballpen -blur-close-up-computer-461077/
The story § As soon as the academic revealed this similarity, he wrote an email to the Council of Higher Education. § All academia in the country heard the scandal. Source: https: //www. pexels. com/photo/curve-decision-forestfork-6754/
The story • The Council of Higher Education gave a decision about Dr. Pirate’s academic dishonesty. • Finally, Mr. Pirate lost his position and his Ph. D was rescinded. • None of his connections provided any support for him. Source: https: //www. pexels. com/photo/bad-weather-beach-blurclouds-395303/
Questions for discussions • Do you think that Mr. Pirate’s advisor and thesis committee also should have been held responsible for this academic dishonesty? • Do you think that thesis advisors should be trained in fighting against academic dishonesty on a regular basis? If so, how? • What else could have been done to prevent this case? • What would you have done differently if you were Mr. Pirate’s thesis advisor?
Acknowledgement & references • All photos used are just illustrative, they are downloaded from an online photo-bank and the characters depicted have no connection with the presented story. • Author: Pexels • Lisenced under https: //www. pexels. com/photo-license/ • Source: https: //www. pexels. com
Author & contact information • Salim Razı (salimrazi@gmail. com, salimrazi@comu. edu. tr) • Mustafa Çoban (muscoban 09@gmail. com, mustafa. coban@btu. edu. tr) • 2019
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