This work presents three short fictional texts recounting certain significant passages in the career of our central character, Isidore Tousignant, plagiarism expert and expert plagiarist. A trainee journalist, later a doctoral student and finally a university lecturer, our wily protagonist explores the repetitions of journalism and the redundancies of amourous discourse; textual duplicity in literary research; and perversions of professorial authority and authorial integrity in an academic context. / In the acompanying critical essay, we present varied notions of literary plagiarism, supported by selected works of Charles Nodier, Jorge Luis Borges, and Danilo Kis, and we propose certain possible avenues of inquiry into the subject, referring principally to the research of Michel Schneider, Gerard Genette, and Marilyn Randall.

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Thèse (M.A.)--McGill University, 1998. / Comprend des réf. bibliogr.

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Thesis (M.S. in Education)--Shenandoah University, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references.

Graph and network theory have become commonplace in modern life. So widespread in fact that most people not only understand the basics of what a network is, but are adept at using them and do so daily. This has not long been the case however and the relatively quick growth and uptake of network technology has sparked the interest of many scientists and researchers. The Science of Networks has sprung up, showing how networks are useful in connecting molecules and particles, computers and web pages, as well as people. Despite being shown to be effective in many areas, network theory has yet to be applied to mechanical engineering design. This work makes use of network science advances and explores how they can impact Computer Aided Design (CAD) data. CAD data is considered the most valuable design data within mechanical engineering and two places large collections are found are educational institutes and industry. This work begins by exploring 5 novel networks of different sized CAD collections, where metrics and network developments are assessed. From there collections from educational and industrial settings are explored in depth, with novel methods and visualisations being presented. The results of this investigation show that network science provides interesting analysis of CAD collections and two key discoveries are presented: network metrics and visualisations are shown to be effective at highlighting plagiarism in collections of students' CAD submissions. Also when used to assess collections of real world company data, network theory is shown to provide unique metrics for analysis and characterising collections of CAD and associated data.

In recent years with the changes of time, academic dishonest behaviors become more and more general. With the highly development of technology and the help of Internet, student can easily get all kinds of materials and commit plagiarism now. Cause there are still none related researches about the plagiarism behaviors in graduation theses, this study would try to figure out the plagiarism behaviors of the graduate students in writing theses about the technology acceptance model in Taiwan. In this study , we would like to find out the writing in 6 different dimensions. The description of the theory of the technology of acceptance model, the description of the the perceived usefulness, the description of the perceived ease of use, the description of external variables, the use of figure of theoretical framework and the use of the table of researches concerned. This study had chosen 226 graduation theses for sampled. Through using the content analysis, the major findings are as followed: (1) Plagiarism did happen in graduation theses in Taiwan (2) Most of what happened in all types of plagiarism behaviors is forming a new sentence without citing the source. (3) Students are lack of how to do a suitable writing , often forget to cite the sources and do not know it¡¦s necessary to write complete descriptions of whole variables. (4) Some students prefer to change what¡¦s in the figure of theoretical framework arbitrarily, and do not know it¡¦s necessary for citing the source of the figure.

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This thesis offers both a survey of representative French language literary plagiarisms from Corneille's Le Cid to contemporary internet downloading, and an evaluation of theoretical approaches to plagiarism and plagiarism-related subjects including intertextuality, pastiche, heteroglossia, and citation. The author argues that all-encompassing theoretical approaches to plagiarism cannot account for vast variations, both in the motivation for plagiarizing on the part of the author, and in the reception of the plagiarized material by individual readers and by the literary/discursive community. Varying standards of acceptability for plagiarized texts are contingent upon the historical, political, geographical and legal juncture within which they are undertaken, and the consequences of plagiarisms uncovered vary accordingly. Nevertheless, the author notes an important relationship between prevailing socio-economic relations within the society and the ways in which plagiarism is regarded by the institutions entrusted with the regulation of, for example, copyright, author's rights, and the publishing industry. After considering the findings and failings of the growing corpus of approaches to plagiarism from Angenot to Zumthor, the author concludes that at the end of the day, approaches are most significantly narrowed-down to categories that uphold or reject the practise of plagiarism. Two extreme examples of these categories would be the corporations' attempts to purchase for all time the rights to the reproduction and diffusion of literary texts, and the Bakhtin-inspired approach that emphasizes the point that utterances are common to communities of speakers, and as such redundancy and repetition are inevitable--but so too is assurance that the originality of each repetition will be affirmed by the ever-changing context within which it is spoken. The latter approach, deemed utopic within the present system of economic relations, is not upheld as a panacea: indeed the

Mashups—texts composed by combining portions from several original texts—are a new literary form. In order to better understand this form, I have created my own literary mashup, Buchstauben, which allowed me to encounter first-hand the nuances of the form. As such, my thesis consists of both my own literary mashup, Buchstauben, as well as a critical component, in which I explore the history of the mashup, from the Classic poetic technique of the cento to the modern work of mashup artists such as Girl Talk. The critical component also serves as a reflection on my own experiences in composing a mashup, and the challenges this form poses to mashup artist, especially in light of contemporary copyright concerns.