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Since human beings have been writing, there has been plagiarism, as can be seen in some excellent histories of plagiarism, for example, Mallon (2001) or Theisohn (2009). It is not something that sprouted with the advent of the Internet. Teachers have been struggling for years in countries all over the globe to find good methods for dealing with the problem of students who plagiarize. When do we suspect plagiarism? How do we judge when a text is to be considered plagiarism since it is not a binary yes/no decision? How do we teach students not to plagiarize? And how do we deal with those who have been caught plagiarizing?
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Mallon, T. (2001). Stolen words (2nd ed.). San Diego: Harcourt.
Theisohn, P. (2009). Plagiat: eine unoriginelle Literaturgeschichte. Stuttgart: Kröner.
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Weber-Wulff, D. (2014). Introduction. In: False Feathers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39961-9_1
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