[Englecturers] Academic dishonesty question--is this considered "fabrication"?

jonesbk at ucr.edu jonesbk at ucr.edu
Mon Nov 5 10:08:57 PST 2007


Hi, everyone. I've assigned a light research paper to my
English 1A students. All but one source on this paper must be
from UCR libraries or UCR library databases. To ensure that
they were getting a head start on the research, I asked my
students to write up an annotated bibliography. They only need
to annotate three secondary sources, but those sources must
come from UCR libraries or official UCR library databases. Yes, I 
know, I'm mean.)

One of my students has listed approved sources that clearly
came from UCR databases, but the annotations have nothing to
do with the sources. The student is actually annotating
articles from regular Websites like musicbabylon.com and
msnbc.com. Is this considered fabrication? If not, what kind
of academic dishonesty is it? I've never seen this particular 
brand before, so I've been caught a little off guard.

Thanks for any feedback,
Benedict Jones


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