Students May Have Plagiarized Honor Code
SAN ANTONIO — The goal was an honor code that discouraged cheating and plagiarizing.
But the wording in a draft by students at the University of Texas at San Antonio appears to match Brigham Young University’s code — without proper attribution.
The student in charge of the honor code project said it was an oversight; he plans to include proper citation and attribution when the draft is submitted to the faculty senate.
Cheating experts say the case illustrates a sloppiness among Internet-era students who don’t know how to cite sources properly and think of their computers as cut-and-paste machines.