Recently, Soochow University Graduate School released the "Revocation of Degree Announcement". "With Japanese Society" had academic misconduct, and decided to revoke Shao's doctorate in history , and to revoke his doctoral degree certificate (certificate number: 1028522014000016).
revoked from Douban netizen Liujiaoqiao Santu Jun published on July 21 this year " plagiarism is shameful, plagiarism is even more shameful " said that Shao's doctoral thesis was suspected of plagiarism Junichiro Sakai's writing has attracted widespread attention from netizens.
Mr. Santu said that Dr. Shao’s plagiarism covers almost every chapter of Sakai’s works, “If Shao obtains Mr. Sakai’s consent, this blog post can even be regarded as Mr. Sakai’s original work without major adjustments. translation and publication". The specific details of
have been reported on the Internet and various self-media, so Teacher Mi will not repeat them.
Since Soochow University has notified it, the notification only stated that Shao had academic misconduct, and did not specify whether the paper was plagiarized or written by himself, so here we are just doing a possible analysis of similar situations—
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Is it possible that these graduation thesis with extensive plagiarism were actually written by the gunman? The reason why
doubts like this comes from the following points
1. Incomprehensible behavioral logic.
I remember when I was in elementary school, I forgot to write my homework once, and I had no choice but to copy the homework at the same table, but the teacher found out, grabbed my collar and scolded me in the office. The reason why it was discovered was that when I copied almost every word, the traces were too obvious. Since then, I have understood at least two principles, one is not to copy other people's homework, and the other is to copy without leaving traces.
I think that a talented student like Dr. Shao will not understand the fate of plagiarism, and also understand the truth that "if you have to copy, you can't leave traces", right?
Then why do such stupid things of plagiarism? If you are an undergraduate, your education is still low, you are fearless, and your undergraduate thesis will at most be kept in the college students' joint comparison library, and will not be taken out to HowNet , so the probability of being discovered is extremely low. But as a PhD candidate, how could Shao not know the consequences? How could he not know that his thesis will be uploaded to HowNet?
Moreover, to be honest, the graduation rate of PhDs in social sciences is very low. Shao should understand that once he plagiarizes, his students and even his teaching career will be ruined (it seems that he has already taught).
The reason why Shao plagiarized so much is that he was extremely stupid and plagiarized the books of Japanese scholars, or he couldn’t write it himself, and then spent a lot of money to find gunmen to write papers for him, but the gunmen gave him pitted.
Second, there is no guarantee of original paper factories
As early as a few years ago, I heard that there are a large number of paper factories in China. Some of them will package themselves as certain biotechnology companies, and some will hide in some journal agency companies internal.
As far as these companies are concerned, they will carry out graduation thesis writing promotion activities with great fanfare every March. They will brainwash their employees, saying that the transfer of copyright is allowed by law, and let employees sneak into some QQ groups of masters and doctors. Then carry out the publicity of graduation thesis writing. But if you can't stand the temptation, or because of some difficulties in the writing of graduation thesis, you will be easily lured by them and go nowhere.
they will often assure you that paper oneMake it original, and make sure you pass the defense and blind review .
But have you ever thought about a question, the originality that these shooters can guarantee is only the repetition rate up to the standard? And the so-called papers that can pass the defense and blind review are just non-original articles that they have translated through weight reduction or foreign language translation.
Just like Shao can get a doctorate through this thesis, at least it means that this thesis has passed the academic misconduct detection system, but we must know that the online master and doctoral dissertation detection system can neither compare documents in different languages, And if the literature to be compared is an academic monograph that has not been included in any Internet database, then the detection system will not be able to compare it. As for the review by experts, I think that because the original book and Shao’s blog were published close to each other, it is possible that the review experts did not notice it. But whether anyone has discovered it since then is unknown.
Similar cases include Yi Mou who was exposed to have plagiarized his papers this year on Nankai Zhibo Peking University . As expected, the detection system still failed to detect it.
Therefore, given that the plagiarism checking system can be cheated by the method of weight reduction, washing manuscripts and translating foreign languages, the "originality" that those paper mills and gunmen can guarantee you is simply untenable.
The most critical question is, how can you guarantee that the shooter will give you an original paper? Could it be that you live in the shooter's house and stare at him every day to do experiments and write papers for you?
Don't mention any contracts, and don't mention any accountability after the fact.
Think about it, if you spend tens of thousands of yuan to write a graduation thesis, and it turns out that the thesis is not original, or even the thesis is original, but it is found that it was written by a ghost, you can ask for it back through legal weapons These tens of thousands of yuan. Yes, even if it is an original one, you can still get it back, because the act of ghostwriting a thesis violates public order, good customs and laws, the contract itself cannot be protected by law, and the other party has to return the fee to you regardless of whether the thesis is original or not.
But think about it, are you only losing tens of thousands of yuan?
Just like Shao in this incident, his thesis may not have been ghost-written, after all, it was not mentioned in the bulletin, but plagiarism in a large amount of space, academic misconduct is a fact recognized by the school, the school also revoked his paper Ph.D. He graduated in 2014, and it has been 8 years since now. As a doctor of history, he is likely to work in a university (if you are interested, you can check it, and I won’t make too much speculation here). His doctoral degree was revoked due to academic misconduct. It is hard to imagine how much impact it will have on his future development, at least his reputation will be bad.
Third, I advise you not to get involved in ghostwriting
Whether you are a doctor, master or undergraduate, I do not recommend asking someone to write a paper for you. There are several reasons.
1. You can never guarantee that the gunner will give you an original paper
Note that the gunner can only guarantee the repetition rate, not the originality. Don’t believe any of their rhetoric, you have to know that ghostwriting is a gray industry that cannot be seen, and what they pursue is often a one-shot deal, and they don’t expect you to recommend your classmates or colleagues to start new business with them. And more importantly, in many ghostwriting agency paper factories, he will only hire a small number of professional gunners, while most of the other business orders are distributed to working students to complete part-time. Do you think part-time students will seriously give you original papers?
What's more, the industry that ghostwriting agency paper factories are engaged in is an illegal industry that is not visible and cannot be protected by law, and they can act recklessly.
2. The lingering gunman threat and the school’s severe punishment
Many students have reported to Mr. Mi on Zhihu that they were blackmailed by the gunman. Some repented halfway, while others did not pay the shooter after paying the money themselves. And guess what? The shooter would threaten these students by reporting to the school, and some even reported the buyer because of the uneven distribution of spoils among writers.
is like the case in the picture aboveAs said, even though the student basically did not use the content provided by the shooter, the school still revoked his degree because of his behavior of asking for a graduation thesis to write.
Yes, you heard me right, the buyer will be punished like the graduation thesis they bought, because schools often stipulate that students can be punished if there are academic frauds such as ghostwriting. Pay attention, as long as there is behavior, it is not just looking at the result, not the behavior, as many people imagine.
Of course, whether the specific school punishes students with behavior or results depends on the school itself, but as long as you have the behavior of asking for a graduation thesis, then the school does have a reason to punish you.
Fourth, the graduation thesis is an assignment that needs to be completed by oneself
I have been emphasizing that the graduation thesis must be original, not to create some anxiety, but to tell everyone that the graduation thesis itself is a piece of work that students should complete after a period of learning experience. job. Homework cannot be plagiarized, so can graduation thesis be plagiarized or ghost-written because you can’t write it? Originality does not mean that high-quality papers must be written, and each stage should have different requirements. If you can’t meet the requirements, it means that you haven’t mastered it yet. At this time, you should think about how to improve your ability so that you can complete a graduation thesis independently, instead of relying on plagiarism or ghostwriting. Using unethical means to complete a dissertation to earn a degree.
If you really don’t know your homework, especially like many master and doctoral students, unfortunately you have chosen an irresponsible supervisor, then you can find a senior brother or sister early, or find a formal thesis tutoring organization outside who refuses to provide ghostwriting. Tutor yourself to improve your thesis writing ability, so that you can independently complete a satisfactory graduation thesis answer sheet. In this way, you can not only graduate successfully, but also acquire relevant knowledge, and the grades and degrees obtained are also above board. Why not do it?
Advise those students who are counting on plagiarism and ghostwriting to graduate, don't stretch out your hand, you will be caught if you stretch out your hand!
