University of Wisconsin–Madison

Category: Academic Integrity

Plagiarized Articles Warn of the Evils of Plagiarism

Professor Brian L. Frye of University of Kentucky – College of Law recently published to SSRN an interesting trilogy of articles about plagiarism norms.  Why so interesting?  Because the articles themselves were completely plagiarized.  In fact, that was the point. Frye writes: In 2020, I paid Alvin Emoodo of youressaymaster.com $100 to ghostwrite a law …

Teacher Beware: M-Journal Makes Wikipedia Articles Look Like “Real” Academic Articles

So if you see a cite to a source called M-Journal, you might want to take a closer look.  M-Journal, from a group called MSCHF Internet Studios, is a site designed to fool instructors into believing that cited sources are more scholarly than they are.  It advertises: “Turn any Wikipedia page into an extremely citable …