Total plagiarism

[Scylax]

A guy 'borrows' another person's research portfolio, has the findings written-up by a third person, then successfully presents the dissertation, in its entirety, for a Masters degree.
The original researcher is never made aware of this theft. What would you do ?

[joggerjayne]

Hope nobody finds out that I copied the guy's research portfolio.

[woofgang]

I would tell the original researcher, the Uni, and anyone else I could think of....provided I have proof. Theft is theft.

[tiggerblue10]

Make the original researcher aware of the theft.

[craft1948]

I had this happen when I guy at work totally stole another colleague's paper to support his application for MIEE. I told my colleague what he'd done and then left it up to him.

[joko]

its not really plagiarism if a dissertation was written based on research....thats normal...

the problem is the research wasnt collected and done himself....and that he didnt write the text himself - that would be hard to prove as presumably the information in the research is there for all to collect if they wanted to

plagiarism would be if he copied the persons actual dissertation, almost word for word

[1hipster]

The guy should have attributed research to the original researcher and lecturers should be made aware of the theft. Universities now have quite rigorous and sophisticated methods of uncovering plagerism these days if it is reported, including the software checker 'Turnitin'. If the culprit is cross-examined he should be easy to expose.