Introduction Ethical
questions are about right and wrong, good and bad, just and unjust.
Being able to make ethical choices comes from both understanding
the values that are behind moral decisions, and from developing
critical thinking skills. The aim of this module is to develop
and encourage the process of critical thinking through consideration
of the ethical dimensions within authorship, specifically through
the example of alleged plagiarism in Kaavya Viswanathan’s
novel Opal Mehta. The topics in this module are specifically related
to the issues and ethics involved in questions of ownership of
intellectual property rights. View
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Background
for for
Teachers This
plagiarism module introduces students to the concept of words and
ideas as intellectual property, and to plagiarism and how to avoid
it. Why can some authors “get away” with it, while others
are discredited? Is the law the same as what is right? What are
the ethics of borrowing somebody else’s words or ideas? Often,
a student will question why if every word has been spoken or written
before, is it that those words in some cases become someone’s
intellectual property to the exclusion of others’? The module
will enable students to understand the answers to that question,
and to introduce and debate such ethical issues as: View
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