Shame I haven't got a mike
Charlon finds the right means to protect his integrity.
If I had a mike and a camera, I would chase Charlon Gouder down Republic Street and ask him the following questions.
1. You were forced to resit your examination in constitutional law, because you failed first time round. Did you fail the resit?
2. I hear that you and your Super One colleague Jonathan Attard – who has also followed the Labour pattern of migrating to the law course from Super One as a mature student – are being disciplined for cheating/plagiarism. Is this correct?
I don’t have a mike and a camera, so I’m asking Charlon and JONETIN to please post their replies here and I will upload them in full. Unlike Super One and Malta Today, I uphold the rules of the Press Act and fulfil my obligations in respect of the right to reply.
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What is the difference between cheating and plagiarism?
When something is plagiarised it is essentially copied. Like say when writing an essay about a piece of literature. If instead of doing your own reading and writing your own interpretation, you ask a friend to give you his/her notes and regurgitate that. At university students have been known to use excerpts from books written about a particular subject by another author and paste them directly into their assignments effectively claiming them as theirs. That would be a case of plagiarism.
Cheating implies that one or a number of rules are broken or not adhered too, to obtain an otherwise unachievable result, such as peaking at someone’s exam paper whilst the examiner is looking away giving yourself an unfair advantage.
[Daphne – Plagiarism is a form of cheating.]
So maybe it was a case of PLagiarism?
As is a visit to Charlontown?
True, plagiarism is a form of cheating. But as Treva` has correctly pointed out (albeit unwittingly perhaps) not all forms of cheating are instances of plagiarism. Yet, as Daphne wrote, the contrary is true.
Harry, or was it Charlata(w)n.
Google books allows you to find whether a particular excerpt matches anything Google has scanned.
If you go and ask all the local MPs, maybe someone who by coincidence was also a newscaster might give you an answer.
oh but at least he’s got his own wikipedia entry too
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlon
I believe the University has software to detect plagiarism.
Not quite. The software available at university detects forms of plagiarism where passages have been cut and pasted from other documents. When a student cuts and pastes something from one document to another, this is not plagiarism but laziness, for the student could have merely copied a section of text from a document he himself created.
Significantly, if the act of plagiarism was carried out by the student manually typing in the text, the software will not pick it up, but obviously it remains a blatant form of plagiarism nonetheless, for the offence of plagiarism has existed well before the advent of domestic IT. The commonality and accessibility to the internet has merely facilitated it.
Plagiarism is “the unacknowledged use, as one’s own, of work of another person, whether or not such work has been published” (Regulations Governing Conduct at Examinations, 1997).
1. Copying text that you yourself had originally written is not plagiarism but is not accepted at University especially if the orginal text was presented as an assignment to another credit.
2. Cutting and pasting or typing out text verbatim from someone’s else text is plagiarism.
The university does not have software to detect plagiarism, though such a software is being assessed and should be in use within a year or two. From the point of view of an supervisor and examiner, it is very easy to detect plagiarism on three factors.
1. If one is well read, then phrases or paragraphs would seem familiar.
2. The level of the syntax of the sentences changes drastically from one paragraph to another.
3. Pick up 5-7 word random phrases and Google them.
@ Banquo
Yes there is!
Cheating is getting to know what question will be asked on an exam paper, as an example.
Plagiarism is when you use someone else’s work (essay, etc.) and claim it as your own.
The only similarity is that both are equally reprehensible.
I beg to differ. The similarity is that both are forms of cheating, with the latter being a form of theft of intellectual property as well.
And was Mr Gouder accused of?
And what was Mr Gouder accused of?
The University considers cheating and plagiarism as a very grave act and in fact the University Chancellor has used his powers to publish Legal Notice 274/2009 with the aim of curbing such disgraceful acts:
http://www.um.edu.mt/registrar/regulations/general/assessment_regulations
Maybe he showed insufficient knowledge about Chapter Eight of the Constitution of Malta, in particular that Magistrates can be removed by a majority in the House of Representatives, on the ground of misbehaviour?
“Unlike Super One and Malta Today, I uphold the rules of the Press Act and fulfil my obligations in respect of the right to reply”
Allura jekk skont il-ligi ta l-istampa hemm id-dritt ghat-twegiba, kif dawn ma jgibux ir-risposti tieghek?
U jekk dan hu ksur ta ligi, fuq min taqa r-responsabbilta li jara li l-ligi ma tinkisirx? Fuq il-press club? Jew fuq il-pulizija?
[Daphne – Il-pulizija.]
U l-pulizija kif se jkunu jafu li s-Super One u l-Malta Today ma gabux it-twegiba tieghek? Tibghad kopja lilhom ukoll?
[Daphne – Le, trid taghmel rapport, u hafna nies bhali ma jaghtux kaz. M’ahniex bhal Charlon Gouder u il-magistrat, nahlu hin il-pulizija (u il-magistrat tahli hin il-pulizija b’mod iehor, ukoll).]
Kieku veru ma taghtix kas, l-anqas ma twegighom fuq dan is-sit. Barra minn dan it-twegiba m’hijiex biss ghas-sodisfazzjon tieghek, imma wkoll ghall min jara Super One u jaqra l-Malta Today. Jigifieri jekk il-pulizija se jaghmlu dak li hu mitlub minnhom, m’hux se jkun hela ta hin assolutament.
Vince dawn in-nies l-iskop taghhom hu li jahlulek sahhtek fuq affarijiet li ma’ tehtieghomx u aptithom. Dak li jkun wahdu bhal Daphne mhux se joqghod jinhela jahli n-nofs ta’ nhari l-qorti fuq l-intietef.
Is-sabiha hi li Daphne ziedet id-doza u fejn qabel kienet taghmel ftit posts fil-gimgha issa hergin bhal pastizzi (jew imqaret meta’ jkun hemm xi demostrazzjoni l-Belt).
Picture above: As expected, Charlon got the wrong end of the stick – he rolled the thing on from the wrong end.
Daphne, you’ve got these dimwits totally screwed, sorry, I meant skewered.
On second thought–both, must hurt like hell.
Why am I not surprised about these shenanigans? Is it because I believe that Charlon et al belong to that part of Maltese society made up (and there is no real political distinction here) of the wannabees, women with little calculators for hearts, hedonists, swingers, men who are long past it trying to relive their youth, but, more worryingly, power-mongers who pull strings across political and social lines, who build discreet bridges between Labour and PN, but whose only motivation is power and money.
The mix includes MPs, MEPs, and a smattering of social ‘glitterati’. Nouveau riche mixes with members of the police and judiciary come se niente fosse. Alcohol and food, and the occasional mask, make things fuzzy and the world rosy. Unlikely friendships and alliances are forged.
[Daphne – There’s a word to describe it, Mario: the demimonde. That’s why I use it all the time. You have failed to notice the one thing almost all these people have in common. Almost none of them are still married. That’s the common factor that brings them together, and that’s where they’re really mixing it up. There are relatively few people whose marriages founder and who succeed in conducting a subsequent relationship with some kind of dignity, grace and quietly, without the need to be all over the place all the time. For the rest, it’s as though they’ve spun the clock back 20, 30, 40 and in a few cases even 50 years, which is why their social life – or the bits I’ve experienced of it – feels so much like being back at a bottle party at the age of 18, but with better food and drinks and more expensive (though not better) clothes. Certainly not better conversation, though.]
This has to stop. I’m not implying bringing back the Puritans. I’m saying that this sleazy network has to be exposed for what it is, and the power brokers who run them, who advocate that this is all right in the interests of finding common ground, should be brought to the light. This is the new mazunerija, where unlikely connections are made that will ultimately make our society poorer in thought and in spirit, because this nether world is dangerously close to taking over the reins of power in Malta.
Then, only if all, and only, these people made it to Parliament, Joseph Muscat would not need to declare a free vote about his private member’s bill on divorce.
Is it true that current Labour MPs Dr Vassallo of Ta’ Xbiex and Carmelo Abela of Zejtun are not contesting the next elections because they disagree with the divorce initiative?
@ Banque
Then they would be stupid – he is giving them a free vote – then they should vote against, if that is what they think is right.
Unlike Freemasonry, which claims to be a moral allegory, there is nothing moral in this sleazy demimonde. At least Freemasons debate about values and claim to be doing their thing for the glory of the architect of the universe.
But for whose glory are these wheeler-dealers doing their thing?
Jose, Consuelo Pilar, Vincenso de Mel, Andy, Vince Micallef, Anton ta’ Ghawdex, together with their satellites Veronique (and her Super One connections), Julia (and her Malta Today connections), a PN candidate, a PN backbencher (to whom Jose passes hot criminal cases involving drug dealers), Salvu Balzan (and his Malta Today connections) – and so on.
Wheels within wheels. Probably Mario De Bono is right in using mazunerija rather than Freemasonry, as in Maltese the term is derogatory, whereas in English it is descriptive.
By the way, there was a time when Vincenso de Mel – who is known to receive his clients with his feet resting on his desk and a huge Cubano in his mouth – made it known to all those who wanted to hear (and to the others who didn’t care a hoot) that with a change in government he would be appointed magistrate.
Can you mention who the PN backbencher is and who is Vincenso del Mel?
Yes who is this Vincenzo del Mel? These mazuni should be known to one and all.