Crisis on Campus: Confronting Academic Misconduct - Couverture rigide

Decoo, Wilfried

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0262042010 ISBN 13 : 9780262042017

Editeur : Bradford Books, 2001

Synopsis

A comprehensive guide to the handling of cases of academic misconduct.

Crisis on Campus presents an overview of the phenomenon and handling of academic misconduct. After a brief historical background, it discusses contemporary circumstances that affect the nature and frequency of academic misconduct. It then details the phases of misconduct discovery and investigation: detection, analysis, assessment, reporting, and institutional handling. The final chapter deals with prevention. The book focuses on concrete cases, showing the complexities and ambiguities in dealing with presumed academic misconduct. The book also provides practical advice to both whistle-blowers and those accused of academic misconduct.

The book pays special attention to plagiarism as one of the most frequent but also most complex forms of academic misconduct. It analyzes the various degrees of possible plagiarism, detection techniques, challenges in proving plagiarism, and denial tactics. It gives valuable advice on how to report and handle cases of alleged plagiarism, both by students and by professionals.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Wilfried Decoo is Professor of Romance Languages at Brigham Young University and of Education and French Philology at the University of Antwerp.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bradford Books
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0262042010
• ISBN 13: 9780262042017
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 280
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible