Legal and ethical issues surrounding the use of information goes beyond
- citing sources and
- avoiding plagiarism.
Researchers should be knowledgeable about the
following issues:
- privacy & security,
- censorship,
- freedom of speech,
- intellectual property,
- copyright, and
- fair use.
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Turnitin.com
Enables educators to check students’ work for proper citation or possible plagiarism by comparing it against three continually updated content bases:
i. billions of pages of web content, plus
ii. hundreds of millions of pages of proprietary content
from subscription-based publications, and
iii. over 80 million student papers previously submitted
to Turnitin.
Easy-to-read Originality Reports help ensure the academic integrity of students by teaching them how to cite properly.
As an MC student, your instructor may ask you to submit papers to Turnitin.com. To do so, your instructor will give you a class I.D. number and an enrollment password.