The etiquette between the student and the teacher should be followed. In general the student should
respect the teacher. This is respect to knowledge and not the individual. The prophet taught admiration and emulation of the
knowledgeable. Students should be quiet and respectfully listen to the teacher all the time. Students should cooperage such
that one who attends a teaching session will inform the others of what was learned[i]. Students can learn a lot from one another. The student who hears a fact from a
colleague who attended the lecture may even understand and benefit more. Students should ask questions to clarify points that
they did not understand or which seem to contradict previous knowledge and experience. Taking notes helps understanding and
retention of facts. Study of medicine is a full-time occupation; students should endeavor to stay around the hospital and
their teachers all the time so that they may learn more and all the time. They should avoid being involved in many other activities
outside their studies.
PLAGIARISM (From Encyclopedia Brittanica 2004).
Encyclopedia
Britannica defines plagiarism as the act of taking the writings of another person and passing them off as one's own. If only
thoughts are duplicated, expressed in different words, there is no breach of contract. Also, there is no breach if it can
be proved that the duplicated wordage was arrived at independently.
Plagiarism
is the act of claiming to be the author of material that someone else actually wrote. Students have plagiarized book reports,
term papers, essays, projects, and graduate-degree theses. Teachers—including college professors—have plagiarized
journal articles, course materials, and textbooks. Researchers have plagiarized reports, articles, and book chapters. Although
academic plagiarism is not new, what is new since the latter years of the 20th century is the ease with which writings on
virtually any topic can be misappropriated with little risk of detection. The principal instrument responsible for the recent
rapid rise in academic plagiarism has been the Internet.
Especially
popular are the on-line “paper mills” or cheat sites—companies that sell students completed essays, book
reports, projects, or theses that can be submitted in school under the students' own names. At least 150 cyber paper mills
have been operating over the past three years. Those available on the World Wide Web bear such names as Evil House of Cheat
(more than 8,000 essays), Genius Papers, Research Assistance, Cheat Factory Essay Warehouse, School Sucks, Superior Term Papers,
and 12,000 Papers.com. In Germany, <cheatweb.de> advertised high-scoring essays,
term papers, stories, interpretations, book reports, and other types of homework. The site reported having between 3,000 and
5,000 high-school and college users daily.
Just
as the Internet has greatly expanded students' opportunities to plagiarize, however, it has also increased teachers' ability
to discover sources from which students have lifted material. This new ability to discover plagiarism is attributed to Web-plagiarism
checkers or verifiers.
The
typical Web checker is an Internet service that works in the following way. A student's paper is entered into the checker's
Web site. That Web site is programmed to compare the contents of the paper with the contents of thousands of documents on
the World Wide Web. A report showing how much of the student's paper is identical to, or highly similar to, documents on the
Web is sent back to the teacher, and the report identifies what those original documents were.
Web checkers usually charge
for their services, either a flat annual fee or a stated amount for each paper processed. One popular plagiarism checker is
<turnitin.com>. In 2001 the operators of the site claimed 20,000 subscribers worldwide. Another much-used checker is
the Essay Verification Engine (EVE), which conducted 45,840,495 assessments between February 2000 and late August 2002. Educators
who have used Web-plagiarism checkers report that telling students that their papers will be Web-checked reduces the incidence
of Internet plagiarism.