Shameless! Reconceiving the Problem of Plagiarism.

There’s been an awful lot of hysteria lately over the increasing incidence of plagiarism in student assignments. No doubt much of the anguish over the issue derives from recent public reports on ‘soft marking’ of fee-paying students and on students being awarded degrees despite having been caught submitting – shamelessly – somebody else’s work as their own. These reports have been followed by firm statements from university administrations that...