If we are to use electronic plagiarism detectors on student work, it would be interesting to know how much similarity should be expected in independently written documents on a similar topic. If our measure is coarse, the answer should be zero, but a finer grained analysis (such as would be needed to detect inadequate paraphrasing) is likely to detect some background noise. How much background ...

INTRODUCTION Scholarship is an essential part of academic success. Junior faculty members are often unfamiliar with the grounding literature that defines educational scholarship. In this article, the authors aim to summarize five key papers which outline education scholarship in the setting of academic contributions for emerging clinician educators. METHODS The authors conducted a consensus-b...

This paper considers the deceptively simple question: Why can’t downloaded academic papers be managed in the simple and effective manner in which digital music files are managed? We make the case that the answer is different treatments of metadata. Two key differences are identified: Firstly, digital music metadata is standardized and moves with the content file, while academic metadata is not ...