Crisis on Campus presents an overview of the phenomenon and handling of                  academic misconduct. After a brief historical background, it discusses contemporary                  circumstances that affect the nature and frequency of academic misconduct. It then                  details the phases of misconduct discovery and investigation: detection, analysis,                  assessment, reporting, and institutional handling. The final chapter deals with                  prevention. The book focuses on concrete cases, showing the complexities and                  ambiguities in dealing with presumed academic misconduct. The book also provides                  practical advice to both whistle-blowers and those accused of academic                  misconduct.The book pays special attention to plagiarism as one of the most frequent                  but also most complex forms of academic misconduct. It analyzes the various degrees                  of possible plagiarism, detection techniques, challenges in proving plagiarism, and                  denial tactics. It gives valuable advice on how to report and handle cases of                  alleged plagiarism, both by students and by professionals.

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