Abstract
Three brief studies are conducted regarding plagiarism in the age of the internet. The first identifies the disparity between cited and un-cited examples of brief media catchphrases used on the internet. The second uses a thesaurus to generate alternative wordings of established definitions and tests them for legibility. The third asks respondents to spontaneously generate definitions for common concepts and uses Google to test those spontaneous definitions for plagiarism. In all three cases, results are such that they call into question current views on the nature of plagiarism itself.
Highlights
Allow me to put all my cards on the table
You remember correctly – we were the ones in the news over purported plagiarism problems among our senior administrators, and again for, of all things, plagiarising the definition of plagiarism in a draft of our new plagiarism policy (Weinhold, 2009)
Drafting a new plagiarism policy was a response to the earlier problems
Summary
Allow me to put all my cards on the table. I‟m from Southern Illinois University. The plagiarism definition that was reportedly plagiarised was ten words long.
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