From jericho at attrition.org Sun Nov 6 14:30:29 2011 From: jericho at attrition.org (security curmudgeon) Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2011 14:30:29 -0600 (CST) Subject: [attrition] Attrition.org Errata Project - Detecting Plagiarism Message-ID: http://attrition.org/errata/plagiarism/detecting_plagiarism.html Attrition.org Errata Project - Detecting Plagiarism Sun Nov 6 02:02:41 CST 2011 With the recent rash of plagiarism exposure, one of the most frequent questions we get is "how do you find plagiarism?" Our methodology is home-grown and very simple. We assume that we are only catching some of it, and that our methodology causes us to miss some cases. Rather than read our layman views on the matter, we encourage you to read the NYU Ethics Handbook written by Professor Adam Penenberg. The entire handbook is worth reading, but you can jump to section 9, "Cardinal Sins" to read about plagiarism. Before we get into the "how", we want to address a second question and concern; what is plagiarism and how can I avoid it? [..]