Plagiarism in Academia vis-a-vis Ethical Aspects and Common Practices
Call for Papers
The proposed seminar aims at providing a platform for exchanging ideas about the relatively underresearched but ever more common practice of plagiarism by academics. From a theoretical perspective, it will focus on the evaluation of current definitions of plagiarism in terms of their variation, relevance in the digital age, ethical and legal aspects. Central to the discussion will be the delineation of the types of text plagiarism and the elicitation of plagiarism techniques such as direct plagiarism, mosaic plagiarism, paraphrase plagiarism, plagiarism of ideas, among others. Various methods for identifying text plagiarism will be examined, and ways of measuring semantic and structural similarity will be proposed. Special attention will be paid to the phenomenon of translated plagiarism, whose linguistic analysis can help to develop a methodology for recognition of cross-language plagiarism.
Papers in the following areas are welcome:
- Plagiarism – theoretical aspects
- Plagiarism in the digital age
- Ethical and legal aspects of plagiarism
- National and university policies for combating plagiarism and their effectiveness
- Plagiarism techniques
- Plagiarism identification and the affordance of the new technologies
- Cross-language (translated) plagiarism and its recognition
As well as any research related to the topic.
Please send your proposals to the seminar convenors:
- Prof. Dr. Klaus Schneider, University of Bonn, Germany: k.schneider@uni-bonn.de
- Prof. Dr. Irena Vassileva, New Bulgarian University, Bulgaria: vassileva.irena@gmail.com
Deadline for abstract submission: 28 February 2016
Notification of acceptance: by 31 March 2016
More information here.