Do Your Students Plagiarize? Practical Strategies on Preventing and Detecting Plagiarism Dr. Jun Wang Celebrating National Library Week!

Do Your Students Plagiarize ?

Dealing with Plagiarism at SJDC (An article from The Record)

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Common Types of Plagiarism Paraphrasing without giving credits to the original source Quoting less than what has been copied Creating a paper by cutting and pasting phrases, sentences, or paragraphs from other publications Working on an individual assignment with a partner and turning in identical answers Based on Robert A. Harris’ Plagiarism Handbook: Strategies for Preventing, Detecting, and Dealing with Plagiarism. Los Angeles, CA: Pyrczak Publishing,

Desperate Types of Plagiarism Copy an entire article from the Web or a subscription online database Download a free research paper from the Web Buy a paper from a commercial paper mill Fake a citation to get by so as to meet the deadline Use a paper with permission from a friend who took the same course or chose the same research topic Based on Robert A. Harris’ Plagiarism Handbook: Strategies for Preventing, Detecting, and Dealing with Plagiarism. Los Angeles, CA: Pyrczak Publishing,

What Can We Do to Prevent or Ward off Plagiarism?

Build an awareness by introducing students to plagiarism prevention resources or tutorials   html html   plagiarism plagiarism  Plagiarism Prevention Tutorials

Major Writing Styles Introduce students to print and online resource guides on major writing styles –MLA: MLA Handbook (Reference: LB2369.G ) –APA: Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (Reference: BF76.7.P ) –Turabian (Chicago): A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations (Reference:LB2369.T8 1996)

Useful Resources Quizzes & Activities: –Plagiarism Attitude Scale –Citation Quiz –Using Sources Quiz –Acceptable Use Versus Plagiarism Exercise –“You Be the Judge” Activity Robert A. Harris’ Plagiarism Handbook: Strategies for Preventing, Detecting, and Dealing with Plagiarism. Los Angeles, CA: Pyrczak Publishing, (Main Book Collection: PN167.H )

Other Recommendations Recommend unique/specific topics or topics on current issues for students’ research papers Encourage students to start their research process as early as possible Remind or require students to include complete bibliographic information on their printouts or note cards as they gather the information for their research paper Encourage students to cited sources under Works Cited or References as they write their paper so that you won’t miss any citations

Level of language use Context & coherence Similarities in papers…

Plagiarism Detection Tools Subscription online databases – Suggested methods of searching: –Conduct a keyword search, using appropriate online databases from the database list Start with a comprehensive database (e.g. Expanded Academic Index ASAP) Type in the search box a phrase from a suspected paper, surrounding the phrase with quotation marks, or Conduct a Boolean search by entering some keywords from a suspected paper, using the Boolean operator, “AND” to nest the keywords together (e.g. school and connectedness and youth and violence)

Plagiarism Detection Tools Web Search Engines: –Google -- Yahoo –Fast -- Dogpile Suggested Methods of searching –Conduct an exact-phrase search in a Web or Directory search box Enter a phrase from a suspected paper, using quotation marks –Conduct a keyword search Enter a few keywords from a suspected paper in the Web search box (e.g. school connectedness youth violence anger behavior) –Perform the searches in more than one search engines

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