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Plagiarism. - Causes of Plagiarism - Shared Responsibilities - Best Practices for preventing Plagiarism. Kye Gon Larissa Ayesha. Did you know?.
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Plagiarism - Causes of Plagiarism - Shared Responsibilities - Best Practices for preventing Plagiarism Kye Gon Larissa Ayesha
Did you know? • The penalties for plagiarism can be surprisingly severe, ranging from failure of classes and expulsion from academic institutions to heavy fines and jail time! http://www.plagiarism.org/learning_center/preventing_plagiarism.html
What is Plagiarism? • Definition • Plagiarism occurs when a writer deliberately uses someone else’s language, ideas, or other original (not common-knowledge) material without acknowledging. • It applies to texts published in print or on-line, to manuscripts, and to the work of other student writers. • Submitting someone else’s text as one’s own or attempting to blur the line between one’s own ideas or words and those borrowed from another source • Carelessly or inadequately citing ideas and words borrowed from another source.
What are the causes? • Discussion Question: • What are the causes of Plagiarism?
What are the causes? • Students may be afraid of failure or taking risks in their own work. • Students may be lack of time management ability and making an effort for researching and writing • Students may not take the issue of plagiarism seriously. • Teachers may fail to report cheating, or may not give an appropriate penalty to students • Students may don’t know how to combine the ideas appropriately of other resources • Students may think error is natural part of learning. • Instructors may not give appropriate knowledge how to write, or they assume that students already know the way of writing documents • Foreign students may not know the conventions governing attribution and plagiarism
Shared Responsibilities • Discussion Question: • “What do you think about responsibilities that we as teachers or students or administration should share? What are our responsibilities to behave ethically?” • Value academic dishonesty
Student Responsibilities • Research assignments are opportunities for rigorous inquiry and learning • Relevant sources should be analyzed and determined • How ideas from resources should be drawn or phrased • Sources should be cited • They should consult with instructors how to put contributions of others to their thought and writing
Faculty Responsibilities • Encourage students to investigate and analyze resources • Build support for researched writing • State policies for documenting sources to avoid plagiarism • Teach how to cite documents and allow practicing skills • Engage students in the process of writing to produce materials (notes, drafts, revisions) • Discuss problems to documenting and offer strategies of avoiding plagiarism • Discuss papers suspected plagiarism • Report cases of plagiarism to administration
Administrators Responsibilities • Publicize policies for conducting ethical research • Publicize procedures for investigating cases of academic dishonesty and its penalties • Provide support services for students how to cite sources • Support discussions of issues concerning plagiarism • Improve working conditions • Provide opportunities to change the ways to work with writing
Best Practices for preventing Plagiarism • Discussion Question: • What strategies can be used for eliminating plagiarism? • Educators • Students
Plagiarism prevention guidelines for Educators • Explain Plagiarism • Explain what is wrong about Plagiarism • Make the Consequences Clear • Start off with Clear Expectation • Improve the Design and Sequence of Assignments • Assign Specific Topics • Attend to Sources and the Use of Reading • Have the Students Annotate their Bibliography • Work on Plagiarism Responsibility • Take Appropriate Disciplinary Actions
Plagiarism prevention guidelines for Students • Consult your Instructor • Plan your paper • Take effective notes • When in doubt, cite sources • Make clear who said what • Know what to Paraphrase • Evaluate your sources
Sources • Council of Writing Program Administrators • http://www.wpacouncil.org • Plagiarism.org • http://www.plagiarism.org/