Problem
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Solution
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Therefore student work should be...
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Inadvertent plagiarism | Publish and review a statement on plagiarism | Well explained |
Easy copy-and-paste of data | View data as building blocks, not buildings | Constructive |
Easy copy-and-paste of analyses | Demand citation (and double-check work) | Authoritative |
Easy modification of other people's work | Examine successive stages of work (parallel to requiring keeping lab notes) | Accomplished within a community |
... which has always been the ideal for student work within the tutorial, workshop, and big laboratory models of education.
The easy data acquisition of networked computing impels us to appreciate building and depreciate foraging.