December 21, 2001

The Wrong Way to Fight Plagiarism

To the Editor:

I trust that others who care about student learning are ... indignant about Rebecca Moore Howard's November 16 essay, "Forget About Policing Plagiarism. Just Teach." (The Review), in which she urges academicians to worry less about what she believes is our undue distress over student plagiarism and concern ourselves more with good teaching. Howard's analysis focuses on what she believes are major causes of plagiarism: Many students "are working long hours at outside

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