Patrick Love, Associate Provost for Student Success Sarah Burns-Feyl, Assistant University Librarian for Instructional Services Beth Klingner, Assistant Dean of Instructional Technology, Dyson What’s the Big Deal? Everybody Does it! Preventing and Detecting Plagiarism and Cheating

Academic Integrity Activities During class time, ask students to briefly define copyright, censorship and plagiarism on a sheet of paper to be turned in anonymously. Have them include questions they may have, and address those questions in a future class.

Academic Integrity Activities Ask students to find a newspaper or magazine article on copyright, censorship, or plagiarism. Have them write a 1-page opinion paper about how this would affect them in some aspect of their life outside school, in their future career, as a parent, a consumer, etc. Have open discussions about the availability of papers for purchase on the Internet. Use this as a way to open dialogue about the ethical issues of using intellectual property.

Avoiding Plagiarism Activities Annotated Bibliographies –Ask students to explain in detail how they found each item –Include items they chose not to use in their paper, and explain why –Design their own method of evaluating and assessing web sites; list the criteria they think is most important

Avoiding Plagiarism Activities Research Logs –Ask students to list resources used such as library databases and web search tools, search strategies and statements they entered, successes and stumbling blocks. –Require that this be turned in throughout the semester, and with the final research project.

Avoiding Plagiarism Activities Read the References –Ask students to read the articles cited in a good research paper or article, then explain how each is related to the paper. –This can help students understand when it is appropriate to recognize the contributions of previous authors in the development of a new work or a new idea.

Avoiding Plagiarism Activities Peer Review –Have students track down resources used by other students in their bibliographies. –Have students “grade” each other’s works cited page for correct style and completeness of citations (as well as appropriateness of sources cited).

Avoiding Plagiarism Activities Is it plagiarism? –discussion scenarios Which is Which? –Being able to interpret citations found in a library database, on the Web, or in bibliographies will contribute to a student’s ability to then create similar citations. In-Text citation exercise –discuss correct versus incorrect uses of source material and analyze sample sentences

Web Resources APOLLO: A Pace Online Library Literacy Orientation / / –Unit 6 “Cite Your Sources and Avoid Plagiarism” Creating Effective Research Assignments “ You Quote It, You Note It ” (Acadia University) OWL: Online Writing Lab (Purdue University) – –Follow “Avoiding Plagiarism” link

What is Turnitin.com? Web-based online plagiarism detection service Licensed based on student enrollment Can be used by faculty or student Printable reports with side by side comparison

What Turnitin Searches 1.Current and archived copy of the publicly accessible Internet ( more than 5 billion pages indexed ) 2.Millions of published works from periodicals, journals, and publication databases. 3.Millions of student papers previously submitted to Turnitin since 1996

Effective ways to use turnitin.com Teaching tool, not a “gotcha” tool Include Syllabus Statement Require Student Consent Form Have students submit papers and view results Conference with students about originality reports Use in conjunction with clear policy on academic integrity

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