He died originality? Everything tends to be repeated, imitated, copied and reproduced, but you can steal ideas? Today, the opportunity to access all the information a couple of clicks has allowed increasing the ‘kidnapping’ of words, especially in academia where teachers must deal daily to discover plagiarism of their students.
to hunt the shooting of texts, educational institutions are increasingly worth more technological tools such as Turnitin, a simple software that can detect plagiarism of the most ‘clever’ students in the classroom.
Turnitin, used by more than 15,000 institutions in 140 countries, verify the originality of school work through an extensive database consisting of more than 300 million archived documents, 110,000 academic publications and 45,000 million crawled web pages.
with this simple tool teachers simply need to copy a piece of student work and the program contrasts it with the base data and displays the percent of plagiarism in the document.
According to a study of the Californian company, analyzed more than 23,000 jobs in Mexico, Brazil, Colombia and Peru had more than 50% of unoriginal content in the academic year 2013-2014.
for more than 15 years ago, Colombian entities such as the University Sergio Arboleda use this software to create a culture of respect for copyright.
in so far year, this institution has already caught 28 jobs with dubious originality of a total of 984 analyzed, due to Turnitin.
“are currently registered 70 teachers and 570 students. the use of the tool is very usual, especially in research projects or work degree “said Yesenia Yusty, systems engineer Sergio Arboleda University.
for Carlos Arias, teacher mastery of communication policy Externado University, plagiarism due to the lack of education on ethics and values that is bound to a cultural behavior in which prevails brainer, ie everything that requires a greater effort is avoided.
“routes and shortcuts closely linked with the social dynamics and patterns of social interaction of postmodernism, which warns a hedonist individual Wanted” said Arias.
and with the increasing access to network have increased fraudulent practices’ copy & amp; paste ‘in those who want to save time and effort. However, the same use of internet facilitates the subsequent identification of fraud so that the institutions must take the lead to control it.
In the opinion of Fernando Laverde, rector of the University Foundation of the Andean area, the causes of plagiarism are ignorance and misuse of the rules that guide the presentation of the work. “This practice is not just copy and paste, because it is also about taking ideas to make them slight changes in order, without reflection, analysis and own production. Many times the student fails to gauge the negative extent of these practices “said Laverde.
To combat this problem, entities elaborate codes of ethics that enable them to prevent and educate the entire community . But most important is “educate students about the value of intellectual production and the possible implications of plagiarism,” Laverde said.
In Colombia, these fraudulent practices are punished criminally. According to Pablo Andres Delgado, a specialist in intellectual property Externado University, such behavior conforms to a certain conduct as a violation of moral rights, set out in Article 270 of the Penal Code which consecrates a prison sentence of 32 to 90 months and a fine ranging from 26.66 to 300 minimum monthly salaries.
“The institutions must adopt policies to punish such conduct, seeking integrally ethical sense and train their professional future” culminated.
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