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I wonder if I might call on colleagues to help me track down the source of
the attached material on the Forestry Commission. A student has submitted
it as an MBA dissertation, but I am sure that I have read it before, but I
can't find it on sources open to me. This student also has a "history".
Can I request that anyone who recognises it (or the original authors
indeed) contact me on my personal email, rather than risk clogging the
list.

With gratitude

Steven
steven.henderson@solent.ac.uk
(See attached file: Strategy Making in the Forestry Commission.doc)

Steven,

Is this ethical to make these kinds of accusations with no proof, and then
distribute the actual paper with the student's name on it? If you can't prove
your charge and if the charge is unsubstantiated, you've still labeled this
person as a possible cheat, and blasted his name to thousands of people all
around the world.

Furthermore, this paper was submitted over 6 months ago, and you are just now
getting around to wanting to check it out???? What kind of ax do you have to
grind with this person?

If you had pulled out a segment of the paper that you questioned and quoted it
to us with the student being anonymous that might have been one thing. But your
approach is inexcusable. You better hope that the student doesn't find out and
report you to your institution and bring you up on ethics charges.

I think you owe your student and this list an apology for your behavior. In the
future, if you find that the student in fact did plagiarize, then I hope you
keep it to yourself. But if after exhaustive research you still can find no
proof of his "cheating" then I hope you just as publicly clear his name as you
have here today when you labeled him a cheat.


Gary Lear, President & CEO
Inscape Certified DiSC Trainer

Resource Development Systems LLC
Managing the Human Side of Business (sm)

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(c) 2006 permission denied to use this post in any other forum or in any way
other than on the discussion list that it was originally posted.

Thanks to those who have replied and suggested suggested some possible
sources. And of course I didn't mean to circulated the student's name., but
attached the wrong file in error.

Steven

If you contact "http://www.turnitin.com/static/home.html" they can help you
with plagiarism. --- ALev

At 04:26 AM 6/6/2006, you wrote:
>I wonder if I might call on colleagues to help me track down the source of
>the attached material on the Forestry Commission. A student has submitted
>it as an MBA dissertation, but I am sure that I have read it before, but I
>can't find it on sources open to me. This student also has a "history".
>Can I request that anyone who recognises it (or the original authors
>indeed) contact me on my personal email, rather than risk clogging the
>list.
>
>With gratitude
>
>Steven
>steven.henderson@solent.ac.uk
>(See attached file: Strategy Making in the Forestry Commission.doc)
>

Alev M. Efendioglu, Ph.D.
Professor of Management
School of Business and Management
University of San Francisco
2130 Fulton Street, Malloy Hall 220
San Francisco, CA 94117-1045, USA
Tel: +1.415.422.6389; Fax: +1.415.422.2502
http://www.usfca.edu/alev/alev.htm

Agreed as to turnitin. We use it at my school. Students in many course are required to post papers to it.

It's also handy as a tool for students; they can post papers and see how those papers appear to others. We use it more and more as a teaching tool than as a policeperson.

Bob Fulkerth

Dr. Robert Fulkerth
Program Director, Bachelor of Science in Information Technologies
Co-Chair, technology programs
Ageno School of Business
Golden Gate University
536 Mission ST.
San Francisco CA 94105
415 442 6556

>>> alev@USFCA.EDU 6/6/2006 10:01 AM >>>
If you contact "http://www.turnitin.com/static/home.html" they can help you
with plagiarism. --- ALev

At 04:26 AM 6/6/2006, you wrote:
>I wonder if I might call on colleagues to help me track down the source of
>the attached material on the Forestry Commission. A student has submitted
>it as an MBA dissertation, but I am sure that I have read it before, but I
>can't find it on sources open to me. This student also has a "history".
>Can I request that anyone who recognises it (or the original authors
>indeed) contact me on my personal email, rather than risk clogging the
>list.
>
>With gratitude
>
>Steven
>steven.henderson@solent.ac.uk
>(See attached file: Strategy Making in the Forestry Commission.doc)
>

Alev M. Efendioglu, Ph.D.
Professor of Management
School of Business and Management
University of San Francisco
2130 Fulton Street, Malloy Hall 220
San Francisco, CA 94117-1045, USA
Tel: +1.415.422.6389; Fax: +1.415.422.2502
http://www.usfca.edu/alev/alev.htm

Just a note...it seems to me that you open
yourself to some personal liability issues
posting the whole document, name of the author
and all, to the list. Perhaps that's just a
litigious American perspective but I would be
cautious about this
Cheers
Chris


>I wonder if I might call on colleagues to help me track down the source of
>the attached material on the Forestry Commission. A student has submitted
>it as an MBA dissertation, but I am sure that I have read it before, but I
>can't find it on sources open to me. This student also has a "history".
>Can I request that anyone who recognises it (or the original authors
>indeed) contact me on my personal email, rather than risk clogging the
>list.
>
>With gratitude
>
>Steven
>steven.henderson@solent.ac.uk
>(See attached file: Strategy Making in the Forestry Commission.doc)
>Attachment converted: Koyaanisqatsi:Strategy
>Making in t#119671.doc (WDBN/«IC») (00119671)


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