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From: dab@oswego.Oswego.EDU (Dave Bozak)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: A pesimistic sociological view of cheating
Keywords: Sociology, Anthropology of schooling.
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Date: 27 Jul 88 16:15:24 GMT
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Reply-To: dab@oswego.oswego.edu.UUCP (Dave Bozak)
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>But who is cheated?  Who is the "victim" of this "crime?"  Only the
>students who come to a university, pay to get an "education," and
>leave as ignorant as when they arrived.  

WRONG!

The victim(s) are all those whose degree is devalued by this person's
unacceptable manner of getting through the course.  The reputation of
the department/school is also affected by the students who have a
degree from that school.  We all suffer when students succeed in
academic dishonesty.

Now I haven't read all the discussion that has been going on here, so
the above may be restating what others have said.  Also, I provide the
following reference risking duplication of someone else's posting.

H. T. Jankowitz
Detecting Plagiarism in Student Pascal Programs
_The Computer Journal_
Volume 31, Number 1, 1988
pages 1-8

A great paper!

dave bozak
SUNY College at Oswego
dab@rocky.oswego.edu