well-known actor Zhai Tianlin Recently, it has continued to attract attention for a series of issues such as suspected academic fraud. On February 14, Nortel responded that the incident had officially entered the investigation stage. On the afternoon of the same day, Zhai Tianlin himself posted an apology on Weibo and applied to withdraw from Peking University's postdoctoral fellow.
htmlOn February 13, after the doctoral thesis was accused of being plagiarized, Zhai Tianlin's master's thesis was exposed to have 8 overlaps with actor Chen Kun 's thesis. Some netizens commented: "Maybe Zhai Tianlin didn't know it was plagiarized, it was written by someone else."did not know Zhizhi.com, plagiarized papers, and could not find a doctoral thesis... Zhai Tianlin's "academic character" managed by him quickly collapsed, and his role as an anti-counterfeiting policeman in this year's Spring Festival Gala was also criticized for being "slapped in the face".
In the apology letter, Zhai Tianlin mentioned: "I deeply reflected on my thoughts, words and deeds. Vanity and luck made me lose myself." However, many netizens did not buy into this apology and believed that they did not respond to key information such as plagiarism in the paper.
Zhai Tianlin incident made the term "academic misconduct" appear in front of the public, and behind the storm, the black industrial chain of paper writing and distribution has also surfaced.
01 only costs 1,000 yuan for writing and distributing thesis on the basis of undergraduate and master's papers
China News Service found that searching for "paper writing" on e-commerce platforms cannot find the results, but after entering the keyword "writing" the key words "writing" there are hundreds of related information, and the slogans are mostly "writing articles" and "writing resumes" and so on. When searching for "papers", there are also a large number of merchants claiming "paper testing", most of which contain the business of writing papers.
From user reviews, we can see that in addition to having basic writing services, the above-mentioned merchants can also modify papers and successfully reduce the content repetition rate to the specified range. As a recent comment from a user said that the modified paper service he purchased "directly reduced the repetition rate from 34% to 7%.
Regarding the price of the above services, China Business Network asked several merchants who wrote papers on behalf of others. One of the merchants said that undergraduate liberal arts Chinese papers are about 300 yuan per thousand words, and 5,000-word papers can be published in 10 days; English papers are priced at relatively high, reaching about 900 yuan per thousand words. A customer service staff member of the above-mentioned merchant said that the writing price is usually related to the total number of words, major and corresponding degree. When asked about the repetition rate of articles, the merchant said that "originality is our basic quality." In addition to writing on behalf of others, "drafting" that reduces the duplication ratio of content by replacing synonyms, adjusting the order of words and sentences, changing the expression, etc. is also one of the services provided by these merchants. Some merchants even promise that their "patterning" form is almost rewritten, with higher quality and less prone to detect, and that the repetition rate can be reduced to less than 10% after operation.
seems to be more "expensive" to publish papers in journals than papers that cost thousands of yuan. China News Service asked the merchants that depending on the journal level, the price of papers for publishing can range from a few hundred to thousands of yuan. For example, the price of publishing articles for a certain national first-level journal is only 1,250 yuan per page; while some lower-level journals even cost only a few hundred yuan.
At the same time, the above-mentioned merchant said that the articles sent on behalf of others only need to ensure that the repetition rate is below 30%, and there are no excessive requirements for content quality. In addition, merchants can also provide free article modification services, and an article recruitment notice can be issued within 2 working days after the article is completed.
At present, paper writing and distribution have formed an industrial chain. According to a previous report by Beijing Business Daily, there are mainly two types of people behind the paper writing. One is full-time or part-time staff with master's and doctoral degrees, while the other is university teachers. Most of them have their own work groups, and they receive various application requests through the group owner, including undergraduate and master's thesis, speeches, work summary, etc. Generally speaking, it is easy to earn 5,000-6,000 yuan per month for part-time writers, and there are also many full-time writers who earn tens of thousands of yuan per month.
02 writing or plagiarizing papers are suspected of illegal
On the evening of February 11, Zhai Tianlin's doctoral college, Beijing Film Academy, said that an investigation team had been established for the fraudulent paper of Zhai Tianlin; on February 14, Beijing Film Academy said that it had officially entered the investigation stage and notified Zhai Tianlin himself. Its postdoctoral academy, , Peking University Guanghua School of Management, , also issued a statement saying that it will handle it according to regulations based on the investigation conclusions of the Beijing Film Academy.
Source: Weibo
Zhai Tianlin officially applied for withdrawing from the relevant work of the postdoctoral research mobile station of Peking University in an apology letter issued on February 14. However, the letter did not respond positively to issues such as plagiarism of papers and degree fraud.
According to reports, Zhai Tianlin serves as the spokesperson and promotional envoy for many well-known brands. In 2019, four film and television works starring Zhai Tianlin will be released. Once the academic misconduct is confirmed, not only will the brand endorsement be ruined, but the situation of the new drama starring Zhai Tianlin will also be worrying.
Interview with China News Service found that many students in school have become accustomed to writing papers, plagiarism and "blank drafts", and have a certain mentality of luck.
"Our school has only started to check undergraduate thesis in recent years. Before, only master's thesis was available." A graduate of a double first-class university told China News Service, "I learned after graduation that some students' thesis cited a large number of other articles, and a thesis only took half a day. Many engineering students also hired people to do it on their behalf in certain links of graduation design, but they were not found to be plagiarized."
Zhao Zhanling, deputy director of Beijing Zhilin Law Firm and special researcher at the Intellectual Property Research Center of China University of Political Science and Law, told China News Service that writing papers is an act of academic dishonesty and is generally handled in accordance with relevant regulations of each school, such as the revocation of the degree awarded after discovery. If the paper written on behalf of others has plagiarism and infringes on the copyright of others, the client, that is, the student who hired someone to write on behalf of others, should bear the tort liability, and the writer does not directly bear legal liability to the party being plagiarized.
Li Min, senior partner of Shanghai Hansheng Law Firm, believes that hiring someone to write a dissertation or plagiarize it is undoubtedly an illegal act. First, according to the provisions of the " Education Law " and "Measures for Handling Falsification of Dissertations", the student will be disqualified from the degree application or cancelled his degree certificate; secondly, within at least 3 years from the date of making the processing decision, each degree-granting institution shall not accept the degree application of the student; finally, plagiarism of other people's papers may also infringe on the copyright of the original author and must bear corresponding civil liability.
Li Min mentioned that Article 14 of the "Measures for Handling Falsification of Dissertations" stipulates: "If social intermediary organizations, Internet sites and individuals organize or participate in the purchase, sale and writing of thesis, the relevant competent authorities shall investigate and deal with it in accordance with the law." Therefore, if any essay writing business operated by a legal person or an unincorporated organization may be considered illegal business, they must bear corresponding responsibilities.
Regarding the issue of "paper scrubbing", Li Min told China News Service that due to the detection principle, the current dilution checking tools cannot detect whether there is plagiarism. "Since my country's copyright protection principle is a dichotomy of ideological expression, that is, the law only protects expression, but does not protect ideas. Therefore, there is uncertainty as to whether different methods of plagiarism infringe on the copyright of others."
Li Min added that generally speaking, the use of synonyms to replace and adjust the order of words and sentences is to infringe on the copyright of others; and whether changing the expression method infringes on whether it is infringing on the specific situation, it is necessary to determine it in light of specific circumstances and cannot be generalized. If the person being plagiarized needs to protect his rights, he should keep evidence of the infringement facts in a timely manner. If conditions permit, it is best to notarize it.
This article is from China News Service
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