'Web of deceit' in classroom...LONDON: More than half of teachers in a survey said they thought plagiarism Using ideas, plots, text and other intellectual property developed by someone else while claiming it is your original work. from the Internet is a problem. Some students who steal essays wholesale from the web, they said, are so lazy they don't even bother to take the adverts off the cut and pasted text. Fifty-eight per cent of the teachers interviewed in the Association of Teachers and Lecturers The Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) is a trade union, teachers union and professional association, affiliated to the Trades Union Congress, in the United Kingdom representing educators from nursery and primary education to further education. (ATL (Active Template Library) A set of software routines from Microsoft that provide the basic framework for creating ActiveX and COM objects. Stemming from the standard template library (STL) that comes with C++ compilers, ATL includes an object wizard that sets up ) questionnaire had come across plagiarism among their sixth-form pupils. Gill Bullen from Itchen College Itchen College is a sixth form college located in Bitterne, Southampton, in the south of England. The college offers part- and full-time courses for both young students and adults alike. The college has around 2500 students, but only around 950 of those are full-time. in Southampton, for example, said pieces handed in by two students were identical and "significantly better than either of them could have done". "Not only that, the essays given in didn't quite answer the title question I had set." A teacher from Leeds said: "I had one piece of work so blatantly 'cut and pasted' that it still contained adverts from the web page." Connie Robinson from Stockton Riverside College, Stockton on Tees, said: "With less able students it is easy to spot plagiarism as the writing style changes mid-assignment, but with more able students it is sometimes necessary for tutors to carry out Internet research This article is about using the Internet for research; for the field of research about the Internet, see Internet studies. Internet research is the practice of using the Internet, especially the World Wide Web, for research. to identify the source of the plagiarism." Mary Bousted, general secretary of the ATL called for robust policies to combat plagiarism, and asked for help from exam boards and the government in providing resources and techniques to detect cheats. But there was another side. "I have found once students clearly understand what plagiarism is, its consequences and how to reference correctly so they can draw on published works, plagiarism becomes less of a problem," said Diana Baker from Emmanuel College There is more than one Emmanuel College:
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