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False Feathers

A Perspective on Academic Plagiarism

  • Identifies and elaborates on many different strategies for identifying plagiarism

  • The author, as an active member of the VroniPlag Wiki group, explains how the group finds and documents plagiarism in dissertations

  • Presents a selection of historical plagiarism cases in German- speaking countries

  • Includes an overview of plagiarism policies in different countries

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
  2. Introduction

    • Debora Weber-Wulff
    Pages 1-2
  3. Plagiarism and Academic Misconduct

    • Debora Weber-Wulff
    Pages 3-27
  4. Plagiarism in Germany

    • Debora Weber-Wulff
    Pages 29-70
  5. Plagiarism Detection

    • Debora Weber-Wulff
    Pages 71-111
  6. Plagiarism Perspective

    • Debora Weber-Wulff
    Pages 113-139
  7. Outlook

    • Debora Weber-Wulff
    Pages 169-173
  8. Back Matter

    Pages 175-200

About this book

Since human beings have been writing it seems there has been plagiarism. It is not something that sprouted with the advent of the Internet. Teachers have been struggling for years in countries all over the globe to find good methods for dealing with the problem of plagiarizing students. How do we spot plagiarism? How do we teach them not to plagiarize? And how do we deal with those who have been found out to be plagiarists? The purpose of this book is to collect material on the various aspects of plagiarism in education with special attention given to the German problem of dissertation plagiarism. Since there is a wide-spread interest in the German plagiarism situation and in strategies for dealing with it, the book is written in English in order to be accessible to a larger audience.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Berlin, Germany

    Debora Weber-Wulff

About the author

Debora Weber-Wulff (1957) is a Professor of Media and Computing at the University of Applied Sciences, HTW Berlin. She studied computer science in San Diego, CA, USA and Kiel, Germany. The topic of plagiarism has been one of her main interests since 2002, and she is active in the German VroniPlag Wiki group, which has been documenting plagiarism in dissertations since 2011. She blogs in English on scientific misconduct (copy-shake-paste.blogspot.com) and oversees a German-language portal on plagiarism (plagiat.htw-berlin.de).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: False Feathers

  • Book Subtitle: A Perspective on Academic Plagiarism

  • Authors: Debora Weber-Wulff

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39961-9

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-39960-2Published: 05 March 2014

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-51393-4Published: 23 August 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-39961-9Published: 13 May 2014

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 200

  • Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet), Science Education

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eBook USD 29.99
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Softcover Book USD 37.99
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  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 37.99
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