The Fabulist

Unlike many other people on the planet, I had not read The Salt Path (Winn, 2018), the UK book relating the story of Raynor and Moth Winn, a...

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Are LLM apps the 'man behind the curtain'?

I have noticed more and more that people are using AI apps to put together text for novel situations. For example, a colleague of mine recen...

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Why we need to reference

Earlier this year I completed a MOOC on the FutureLearn platform, and got to a week which was focused on referencing. Such a great topic. Bu...

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The hoofbeats of plagiarism

While plagiarism is a very serious academic issue, the image that accompanied a previous post ( here ; RetractionWatch, 2013) made me laugh....

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8 types of academic dishonesty

There are a number of different types of academic dishonesty that I have encountered. And while this is not an exhaustive list, I thought I ...

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Retraction Watch

There is a very interesting academic not-for-profit site known as RetractionWatch . The site contributors go out of their way to list author...

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Self-plagiarism, recycling credit and audience expectations

This year I have had a few situations with students 'recycling' work from other assignments. This was not really academic dishones...

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There aint no such thing as a free lunch

I had a situation on a course where several students recycled work, which had already been submitted in on a concurrent course for credit, o...

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Why paraphrasing is important in academic writing

Each new semester brings the need to explain some of the same things to a new group of students. One thing about that repetition is tha...

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TurnItIn: a tool for academic writing

My institution uses the plagiarism webware TurnItIn (TII), and the Business School I work in limits students' allowable TII score to 9...

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Academic Dishonesty

I have a student whom I know has cheated on their final report. This student has obviously purchased their assignment - sub-contracted the...

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Why Writing Needs Citations

Each semester, I explain - clearly - to my students why academic writing (assignment work) needs citations and references. There are som...

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