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Can General Education Outmaneuver the Majors? — A Loose Talk from Course Assessment Methods to ChatGPT

AI & Scholarship2023.03.19
Can General Education Outmaneuver the Majors? — A Loose Talk from Course Assessment Methods to ChatGPT
Note: I originally just wanted to vent a bit about the feelings stirred up by a wave of severely plagiarized assignments, but as it turned out the discussion naturally drifted into AI, and things got a bit loose. Let’s leave it at that for now. The two courses I taught last semester—A General History of Technology and Introduction to Philosophy of Technology—have only just now finally been brought to a close. Normally, my courses use in-class exams during the last week of the term, but because of the outbreak of the pandemic at the end of last semester, the university suggested changing the final-exam process and arranging two exam sessions,…
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2023年3月19日
From Melamine to Thesis Plagiarism Checks: A Completely Meaningless Detection-and-Evasion Battle

Culture & Public Commentary2019.02.15
From Melamine to Thesis Plagiarism Checks: A Completely Meaningless Detection-and-Evasion Battle
An impromptu submission to Jiemian; I finished writing it at noon and it went up in the afternoon~ The recent Zhai Tianlin incident made “CNKI” and its plagiarism-checking technology quite the sensation. Netizens spontaneously helped run plagiarism checks on Zhai Tianlin’s paper and found the rate of duplication to be as high as 40%, causing his image as a top student to collapse. I’m not particularly interested in Zhai Tianlin’s image crisis; I’m more inclined to hitch a ride on the hot topic and talk about my own views on plagiarism-checking technology for theses. Plagiarism checking has been popular for many years now. I have always taken a critical and…
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2019年2月15日
On Plagiarism (A Zero Without Appeal and Unsparing Mockery)

History of Science & Scholarship2018.06.30
On Plagiarism (A Zero Without Appeal and Unsparing Mockery)
The deadline for submitting assignments for the History of Technology survey course has now passed. Although I had already previously talked about plagiarism, it still wasn’t enough, so I’m posting a special article here to explain the matter and to lay down rules for how I will deal with plagiarism in the future. This time there were 29 students in the course altogether. One student withdrew from the class (not taking the exam and not submitting the assignment), so the actual number was 28. Looking at their midterm assignments now, I found a total of 5 plagiarized pieces! That’s almost one-fifth! Of course, among them were 2 international students (though…
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2018年6月30日
Plagiarism Is Not Just a Matter of “Academic Norms” — With a Discussion of Relative Legitimacy

History of Science & Scholarship2010.07.16
Plagiarism Is Not Just a Matter of “Academic Norms” — With a Discussion of Relative Legitimacy
The Wang Hui plagiarism incident still has no conclusion, and the debate continues. Just now I saw a reposted article, also a rather typical pro-Wang piece, and it really does make some good points. Though it makes good points, it is actually a maneuver to shift the focus. In substance, it is still absurd and laughable. I’ll first quote the article’s first section (the boldface is mine): http://blog.renren.com/blog/7178/478029071 A Casual Talk on the Wang-Zhu Incident: It Concerns Academic Norms, and Even More, the History of Scholarship 2010-07-14 19:03:37 from: leo 1 The doctoral dissertation Wang Hui published in the late 1980s, Against Despair, has been branded by Wang Binbin with…
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2010年7月16日
Why Suixuan Is Not Afraid of Plagiarism

Life & Notes2008.02.22
Why Suixuan Is Not Afraid of Plagiarism
Not long after Suixuan first started running, a friend reminded me to be a little careful: academic articles posted there would always inevitably face the risk of plagiarism and theft. More recently, an older fellow student also suggested that I might as well submit more pieces to newspapers, which would both earn a bit of author’s fee and, to some extent, protect copyright. But for me, whether writing for newspapers or submitting papers to magazines, first, it is not commensurate with my present qualifications and level; second, it more or less sacrifices freedom; third, it is unnecessary, because I am neither short of money nor afraid of plagiarism and theft….
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2008年2月22日