What to do and Where to go: Strategies & Resources for Combating Plagiarism

What to do and Where to go:Strategies & Resources for Combating Plagiarism

What’s the Big Deal? * • frequency of cheating/plagiarism • method used • moral outrage * special thanks to Prof. M. D’Angelo for assistance with the following six factors… and to Clemson University for their videos…

What are we up Against? • Librarians, teachers, and professors work against four primary factors and two additional factors: 1 2 4 3 5 6

Laziness • Students are “natural economizers”: (Harris 2004) • Cutting and pasting • Purchasing from online service • Downloading a free paper • Paraphrasing w/o attribution • “Archiving” fellow student papers 1

Lack of Writing Fluency Results from: • Inability or unwillingness to complete background assignments • Lack of practice • Fear of being under-prepared 2

Incorrect Research Practices Consists of: • Summarizing w/o attribution • Careless notetaking • Ignorance about what constitutes plagiarism • Copying text, images, sound, or video clips w/o attribution 3

Procrastination • Panic for time: result of poor time management skills and laziness • Stress and competition: Grades • Assignment Construction and Due Dates 4

Victimless Crime Idea • “Everybody does it!” • “Culture” of institution allows it • Lack of perceived punishment • Major journalists/historians “cited” 5

“He didn’t mean it!” • “He’s just a kid!” (D’Angelo 2004) • Educators of all types (librarians, teachers, administrators) often do not want to get involved in the accusation and proof process • And last but not least “My father’s a lawyer!” 6

Teaching About and Combating Plagiarism • thoughts… • suggestions… • strategies… • VirtualSalt.com Robert Harris 2004 “Anti-Plagiarism…”

Web Resources for Citing, Research, and Writing • different types of plagiarism • mistakes in summarizing, paraphrasing, quoting • generating, revising, and editing • researching ideas and attributing

Research and Documenting Sources: 4 Sites • Research & Documenting Sourceshttp://owl.english.purdue.edu/ handouts/research/index.html • Citation Style for Research Papershttp://www.liunet.edu/cwis/cwp/ library/workshop/citation.htm

Research and Documenting Sources: 4 Sites (cont.) • Citing Sources & Avoiding Plagiarismhttp://library.duke.edu/research/citing/ • Research and Documentation Onlinewww.dianahacker.com/resdoc/

Citing Sources: 2 Sites • OSLIS “Citing Sources” http://oslis.k12.or.us/secondary/ • "NoodleBib" http://www.noodletools.com/

Web Resources for Research and Writing: 3 Sites • The Writers’ Workshophttp://www.engl.niu.edu/comskills/ • A+ Research and Writing for High School and College Studentshttp://www.ipl.org/div/aplus/ • Guide to Grammar and Writinghttp://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/ grammar/

Help with When and Why to Cite Sources: 4 Sites • Synthesis: Using the Work of Others http://library.umf.maine.edu/ plagiarism/ • Plagiarism Court: You be the Judgehttp://www.fairfield.edu/documents/library/plagicourt.swf

Help with When and Why to Cite Sources: 4 Sites (cont.) • Plagiarism Workshophttp://mail.nvnet.org/~cooper_j/ plagiarism/ • Cybercheats: Plagiarism & the Internethttp://cybercheats.blogspot.com/

Conclusion OK, sort of… Play with these interactive sites, and look at… “The Book!”

http://library.rider.edu/~rlackie/plagiarism/prevent10-2008.ppthttp://library.rider.edu/~rlackie/plagiarism/prevent10-2008.ppt Thank you for attending! THE END

What to do and Where to go: Strategies & Resources for Combating Plagiarism