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Many students simply do not know what plagiarism is
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If you change an author's words into your own words, you don't have to cite it."
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Many other students know what plagiarism is, but don't consider it wrong. Some have a personal belief that "information wants to be free," and that copying from others is merely an acceptable practice of recycling, a sort of ecological practice. Then, too, some faculty actually encourage copying from sources with a few words of one's own because that is "patch writing," a normal way to write. So the plagiarizer you catch might not be the defiant, lazy cheater you assume, but a practical, "community of words" compiler of essays using fellow writers' verbal structures.
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Students are natural economizers.
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Provide a list of specific topics an
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Require most references to be up-to-date. Many of th
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robinherriffcopyright info and talking to students about what is and isn't plagiarism. link to paper mills
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combat
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Copying and pasting of paragraphs
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Understand why students cheat
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copying from sources with a few words of one's own is merely
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Plagiarism on research papers takes many forms
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Do not assume that students know what plagiarism is, even if they nod their heads when you ask them. Provide an explicit definition for them. For example, "Plagiarism is using another person's words or ideas without giving credit to the other person. When you use someone else's words, you must put quotation marks around them and give the writer or speaker credit by revealing the source in a citation. Even if you revise or paraphrase the words of someone else or just use their ideas, you still must give the author credit in a note. Not giving due credit to the creator of an idea or writing is very much like lying because without a citation, you are implying that the idea is your own."
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Discussing with students why plagiarism is wrong may be helpful also. Clarifying for them that plagiarism is a combination of stealing (another's words) and lying (claiming implicitly that the words are the student's own) should be mentioned at some point, but should not be the whole emphasis or you risk setting up a challenge for the rebels (those who like to break the rules just for fun).
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It is sometimes said that the best plagiarism detector is the student who handed in the paper, because he or she already knows whether or not the paper is genuine, or what part is fraudulent. Therefore, you can sometimes enlist the student's help. You must be very careful about accusing a student of cheating unless you have clear proof, because a false accusation can be both cruel and reason for litigation. But if you ask the right questions in the right way, you will often be successful
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Anti-Plagiarism Strategies for Research Papers
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Strategies of Awareness
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Strategies of Prevention
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Strategies of Detection
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Plagiarism is using another person's words or ideas without giving credit to the other person. When you use someone else's words, you must put quotation marks around them and give the writer or speaker credit by revealing the source in a citation. Even if you revise or paraphrase the words of someone else or just use their ideas, you still must give the author credit in a note. Not giving due credit to the creator of an idea or writing is very much like lying because without a citation, you are implying that the idea is your own.
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lagiarism is using another person's words or ideas without giving credit to the other person. When you use someone else's words, you must put quotation marks around them and give the writer or speaker credit by revealing the source in a citation. Even if you revise or paraphrase the words of someone else or just use their ideas, you still must give the author credit in a note. Not giving due credit to the creator of an idea or writing is very much like lying because without a citation, you are implying that the idea is your own.
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ElRo Resources"Copying papers or even parts of papers short circuits a number of learning experiences and opportunities for the development of skills: actually doing the work of the research paper rather than counterfeiting it gives the student not only knowledge of the subject and insights into the world of information and controversy, but improves research skills, thinking and analyzing, organizing, writing, planning and time management, and even meticulousness (those picky citation styles actually help improve one's attention to detail). All this is missed when the paper is faked, and it is these missed skills which will be of high value in the working world. A degree will help students get a first job, but performance--using the skills developed by doing just such assignments as research papers--will be required for promotion."
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Cotham School LibraryThe availability of textual material in electronic format has made plagiarism easier than ever. Copying and pasting of paragraphs or even entire essays now can be performed with just a few mouse clicks. The strategies discussed here can be used to combat what some believe is an increasing amount of plagiarism on research papers and other student writing. By employing these strategies, you can help encourage students to value the assignment and to do their own work.
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Many students simply do not know what plagiarism is. Their awareness, if any, often derives from urban legends and myths ("Everything on the Internet is public domain and can be copied without citation").
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Madison MitchellAn anti-plagiarism article with strategies to help avoid plagiarizing and ways to help your students avoid plagiarism.
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marisa mennaThe availability of textual material in electronic format has made plagiarism easier than ever. Copying and pasting of paragraphs or even entire essays now can be performed with just a few mouse clicks. The strategies discussed here can be used to combat what some believe is an increasing amount of plagiarism on research papers and other student writing. By employing these strategies, you can help encourage students to value the assignment and to do their own work
article Anti-Plagiarism Strategies Research Papers awareness
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Ashley Adamczykarticle about anti plagiarism strategies for writing research papers
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Plagiarism on research papers takes many forms
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Olivia BarberThere are students who purposely try to get the easy way out by cheating while there are others who simply don't know what plagiarism consists of. Some people believe that information should be free and there shouldn't be anything wrong with using other people information or thoughts. The best way to not run into any problem is become educated. The more you know and understand the less likely you will run into a legal problem. Many teacher educate their class but it is always good to keep educating and refreshing your class. Make assignments clear so there is less likely for you student to plagiaries.
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28 Jan 13
Samantha BurkoThis article provides strategies of awareness, prevention, and detection of plagiarism.
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CRISSA SNYDERPlagerism is easier now so education students is important.
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Emily RamboWays to avoid plagiarism in the classroom as well as how to teach citing. If you start the research paper by teaching students how to cite then there will be less plagiarism.
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Abby BoeremaThis website talks about Plagiarism and strategies students should take in order to avoid using it on their assignments. Many students are simply unaware of what plagiarism is, so it is important to be clear and explain throughly what is means
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Sam ColeThis is a list of tips one can use as a teacher to make sure their students know what copyright is and how to prevent it from occurring in their assignments.
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Allison KreiderHow to avoid plagiarizing in a research paper
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Miranda Joyntunderstanding plagiarism. and what to do when writing research papers
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kandemckaySome more resources for helping students avoid plagiarism.
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- Use of one or more sources written within the past year. A requirement like this will quickly outdate most paper mill products.
- Use of one or more specific articles or books you name or provide. The articles could be available online (from the Web or one of your university's proprietary databases) to save the effort of photocopying and distribution.
- Incorporation of some information you provide (for example, a data set).
- A personal interview with an expert or authority. An interview creates both a current and a checkable source.
3. Require specific components in the paper. For example, "The paper must make use of two Internet sources, two printed book sources, two printed journal sources, one personal interview, and one personally conducted survey." Or, "You must make use of Wells' article on 'Intelligent Design Principles,' and some material from either the Jones or Smith book." Or, "Include a graph which represents the data discussed in the first section." Requirements that will strongly inhibit the use of a copied paper include these:
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4. Require process steps for the paper. Set a series of due dates throughout the term for the various steps of the research paper process: topic or problem, preliminary bibliography, prospectus, research material (annotated photocopies of articles, for example), outline, rough draft, final annotated bibliography, final draft. Some of these parts can be reverse engineered by the determined cheater, but most students should realize that doing the assignment honestly is easier than the alternative.
The rough draft serves several functions. A quick glance will reveal whether whole sections are appearing without citations. At the draft stage, you have the opportunity to educate the student further and discuss how proper citation works. You can also mark places and ask for more research material to be incorporated. If you are suspicious of the paper at this point, ask for the incorporation of some specific material that you name, such as a particular book or article.
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Keep the drafts and let students know that you expect major revisions and improvements between drafts. (This is actually a great way to improve students' writing, quite apart from the other goal of preventing plagairism.)
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Require oral reports of student papers.
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Have students include an annotated bibliography
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Require most references to be up-to-date
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Require a metalearning essay
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Austin ColeWays to avoid plagiarism and understand why people plagiarize. People should educate themselves on plagiarism.
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- 1. Understand why students cheat. By understanding some of the reasons students are tempted to cheat on papers, you can take steps to prevent cheating by attacking the causes. Some of the major reasons include these:
- Many students simply do not know what plagiarism is. Their awareness, if any, often derives from urban legends and myths ("Everything on the Internet is public domain and can be copied without citation").
- Many other students know what plagiarism is, but don't consider it wrong. The belief that "information wants to be free," and the idea that copying from sources with a few words of one's own is merely "patch writing," a normal way to write, support these students in their beliefs. So the plagiarizer you catch might not be the defiant, lazy cheater you assume, but a practical, "community of words" compiler of essays using fellow writers' verbal structures.
- Students are natural economizers. Many students are interested in the shortest route possible through a course. That's why they ask questions such as, "Will this be on the test?" Copying a paper sometimes looks a the shortcut through an assignment, especially when the student feels overloaded with work already.
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- 2. Educate yourself about plagiarism. Plagiarism on research papers takes many forms. Some of the most common include these:
- Downloading a free research paper. Many of these papers have been written and shared by other students. Since paper swappers are often not among the best students, free papers are often of poor quality, in both mechanics and content. Some of the papers are surprisingly old (with citations being no more recent than the seventies).
- Buying a paper from a commercial paper mill. These papers can be good--and sometimes they are too good. If you have given students an in-class writing assignment, you can compare the quality and be quite enlightened. Moreover, mills often sell both custom and stock papers, with custom papers becoming stock papers very quickly. If you visit some of the mill sites, you might just find the same paper available for sale by searching by title or subject.
- Copying an article from the Web or an online or electronic database. Only some of these articles will have the quantity and type of citations that academic research papers are expected to have. If you receive a well-written, highly informed essay without a single citation (or with just a few), it may have been copied wholesale from an electronic source.
- Copying a paper from a local source. Papers may be copied from students who have taken your course previously, from fraternity files, or from other paper-sharing sources near campus. If you keep copies of previous papers turned in to you, they can be a source of detection of this particular practice.
- Cutting and pasting to create a paper from several sources. These "assembly-kit" papers are often betrayed by wide variations in tone, diction, and citation style. The introduction and conclusion are often student-written and therefore noticeably different from and weaker than the often glowing middle.
- Quoting less than all the words copied. This practice includes premature end quotation marks or missing quotation marks. A common type of plagiarism occurs when a student quotes a sentence or two, places the end quotation mark and the citation, and then continues copying from the source. Or the student may copy from the source verbatim without any quotation marks at all, but adding a citation, implying that the information is the student's summary of the source. Checking the citation will expose this practice.
- Faking a citation. In lieu of real research, some students will make up quotations and supply fake citations. The fake citation can be either completely fabricated (The American Journal of Asymmetric Induction Studies), or it can reference a real source (book, journal, or Web site) which contains no such article or words that have supposedly been used. You can discover this practice by randomly checking citations. If you require several Web or other electronic sources for the paper, these can be checked quickly.
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4. Discuss the benefits of citing sources.
Many students do not seem to realize that whenever they cite a source, they are strengthening their writing. Citing a source, whether paraphrased or quoted, reveals that they have performed research work and synthesized the findings into their own argument. Using sources shows that the student in engaged in "the great conversation," the world of ideas, and that the student is aware of other thinkers' positions on the topic. By quoting (and citing) writers who support the student's position, the student adds strength to the position. By responding reasonably to those who oppose the position, the student shows that there are valid counter arguments. In a nutshell, citing helps make the essay stronger and sounder and will probably result in a better grade.Appropriate quoting and citing also evidences the student's respect for the creators of ideas and arguments--honoring thinkers and their intellectual property. Most college graduates will become knowledge workers themselves, earning at least part of their living creating information products. They therefore have an interest in maintaining a respect for intellectual property and the proper attribution of ideas and words.
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Many students simply do not know what plagiarism is.
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Many students are interested in the shortest route possible through a course.
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Some students fear that their writing ability is inadequate.
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Many students simply do not know what plagiarism is. Their awareness, if any, often derives from urban legends and myths
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Buying a paper from a commercial paper mill. These papers can be good--and sometimes they are too good. If you have given students an in-class writing assignment, you can compare the quality and be quite enlightened. Moreover, mills often sell both custom and stock papers, with custom papers becoming stock papers very quickly. If you visit some of the mill sites, you might just find the same paper available for sale by searching by title or subject.
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- Search for the paper online. If you suspect the paper may have come from the Web, you might try these strategies to find it:
- If you find nothing with these tools, try several of the large-database, full-text search engines like Google, and perform an exact phrase search on a four-to-six-word phrase from a suspect part of the paper (find a phrase that has two or three relatively unusual words in it). Remember that no search engine covers more than about a third of the visible Web, so you should try several engines before you give up.
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Michael HansonThis website explains how you can work around the use of copying and plagiarism. With it being so easy to do, this website gives strategies on how to overcome copying and pasting things quickly.
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Many students simply do not know what plagiarism is. Their awareness, if any, often derives from urban legends and myths ("Everything on the Internet is public domain and can be copied without citation").
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Students are faced with too many choices, so they put off low priorities.
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2. Educate yourself about plagiarism. Plagiarism on research papers takes many forms.
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Nicole DeMarieThis site explains why students may be plagiarizing, and how to catch them. It also gives helpful hints on how to prevent it!
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Many students simply do not know what plagiarism is
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A few students like the thrill of rule breaking.
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Cutting and pasting to create a paper from several sources. These "assembly-kit" papers are often betrayed by wide variations in tone, diction, and citation style. The introduction and conclusion are often student-written and therefore noticeably different from and weaker than the often glowing middle.
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Provide an explicit definition for them. For example, "Plagiarism is using another person's words or ideas without giving credit to the other person. When you use someone else's words, you must put quotation marks around them and give the writer or speaker credit by revealing the source in a citation
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If an institutional policy exists, quote it in your syllabus.
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Many students simply do not know what plagiarism is.
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Many other students know what plagiarism is, but don't consider it wrong.
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Students are natural economizers
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Students are faced with too many choices, so they put off low priorities.
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Many students have poor time management and planning skills
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Some students fear that their writing ability is inadequate.
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A few students like the thrill of rule breaking.
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Downloading a free research paper.
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In addition to a definition, though, you should discuss with your students the difference between appropriate, referenced use of ideas or quotations and inappropriate use.
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Mixed citation styles
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Lack of references or quotations.
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Unusual formatting.
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Off topic.
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Brittany SchooThis article discusses why students cheat, how to tell if students are cheating on papers and educating students about cheating and plagiarism.
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Students are faced with too many choices, so they put off low priorities.
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Do not assume that students know what plagiarism is, even if they nod their heads when you ask them.
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By quoting (and citing) writers who support the student's position, the student adds strength to the position.
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kelton hervelaThis article gives students the basics on how to correctly sight research papers so they dont get into trouble for copyright
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. Understand why students cheat. By understanding some of the reasons students are tempted to cheat on papers, you can take steps to prevent cheating by attacking the causes. Some of the major reasons include these:
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Many students simply do not know what plagiarism is. Their awareness, if any, often derives from urban legends and myths ("Everything on the Internet is public domain and can be copied without citation").
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Educate yourself about plagiarism. Plagiarism on research papers takes many forms. Some of the most common include thes
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Megan DuttonThe article discusses the strategies to detect and fight plagiarism in classrooms. With technology advancing each day students are finding new and improved ways to cut corners to plagiarize their peers, or random student's, work.
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The availability of textual material in electronic format has made plagiarism easier than ever.
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Many students simply do not know what plagiarism is. T
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Plagiarism on research papers takes many forms
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Make the penalties clear
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Joseph MercerTeachers need to be aware that plagiarism is on the rise due to the rise of easy information across the web. Being able to identify plagiarism is skill all teachers must acquire.
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Many students simply do not know what plagiarism is.
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Buying a paper from a commercial paper mill
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If an institutional policy exists, quote it in your syllabus.
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Many students simply do not know what plagiarism is.
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students know what plagiarism is, but don't consider it wrong.
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Many students are interested in the shortest route possible
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Many students have poor time management and planning skills.
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Some students fear that their writing ability is inadequate. Fear of a bad grade and inability to perform cause some students to look for a superior product.
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A few students like the thrill of rule breaking. The more angrily you condemn plagiarism, the more they can hardly wait to do it
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Cutting and pasting to create a paper from several sources. These "assembly-kit" papers are often betrayed by wide variations in tone, diction, and citation style.
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Faking a citation. In lieu of real research, some students will make up quotations and supply fake citations. The fake citation can be either completely fabricated (The American Journal of Asymmetric Induction Studies), or it can reference a real source (book, journal, or Web site) which contains no such article or words that have supposedly been used.
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Make the penalties clear. If an institutional policy exists, quote it in your syllabus. If you have your own policy, specify the penalties involved.
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Be specific about your expectations. Should the paper be an individual effort or is collaboration permitted? Must the paper be unique to your course, or do you allow it to be submitted to another course as well? (In scholarly publishing, such multiple publication is usually called self-plagiarism.
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Gabrielle StuartTips to help avoid plagiarism.
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By understanding some of the reasons students are tempted to cheat on papers, you can take steps to prevent cheating by attacking the causes
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Plagiarism on research papers takes many forms
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Do not assume that students know what plagiarism is, even if they nod their heads when you ask them
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Audrey JulkaThis website is important because it highlights a few important reasons and strategies of awareness for writing research papers.
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By understanding some of the reasons students are tempted to cheat on papers, you can take steps to prevent cheating by attacking the causes
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Plagiarism on research papers takes many forms
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Do not assume that students know what plagiarism is, even if they nod their heads when you ask them
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Natalie TownThis is a website designed to help teachers lower the rate of plagiarizing students. This site teaches teachers about why students plagiarize and about how you can inform students on how to cite their sources.
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By understanding some of the reasons students are tempted to cheat on papers, you can take steps to prevent cheating by attacking the causes.
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2. Educate yourself about plagiarism.
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Do not assume that students know what plagiarism is, even if they nod their heads when you ask them. Provide an explicit definition for them.
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Shannon RichardsThis article focuses on plagiarism. It talks about reasons why students may be tempted to cheat and plagiarize, along with ways that the teacher can decrease risk of plagiarism in the classroom. It also explains how you as an educator should take the time to make sure all students know what plagiarism is and how to correct write a paper by using quotes to avoid plagiarizing
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By understanding some of the reasons students are tempted to cheat on papers, you can take steps to prevent cheating by attacking the causes.
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Do not assume that students know what plagiarism is, even if they nod their heads when you ask them. Provide an explicit definition for them. For example, "Plagiarism is using another person's words or ideas without giving credit to the other person. When you use someone else's words, you must put quotation marks around them and give the writer or speaker credit by revealing the source in a citation. Even if you revise or paraphrase the words of someone else or just use their ideas, you still must give the author credit in a note. Not giving due credit to the creator of an idea or writing is very much like lying."
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Make the penalties clear. If an institutional policy exists, quote it in your syllabus. If you have your own policy, specify the penalties involved. For example, "Cheating on a paper will result in an F on that paper with no possibility of a makeup. A second act of cheating will result in an F in the course regardless of the student's grade otherwise." If you teach at a university where the penalty for plagiarism is dismissal from the university or being reported to the Academic Dean or Dean of Students, you should make that clear as well.
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Jennifer DrumThis article explains many strategies of awareness. These include: understanding why students cheat, educating yourself about plagiarism, educate your students about plagiarism, discuss the benefits of citing sources, and making the penalties.
Strategies of prevention: make the assignment clear, provide a list of specific topics, require specific components in the paper, require process steps for the paper, require oral reports of student papers, have students include an annotated bibliography, require most references to be up-to-date, and require a metalearning essay.
Strategies of detection: look for clues, know where the sources of papers are, search for the paper outline, and use a plagiarism detector.-
Perhaps the most effective discussion will ask the students to think about who is really being cheated when someone plagiarizes.
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The overall goal of these specific strategies is to make the assignment and requirements unique enough that an off-the-shelf paper or a paper written for another class or a friend's paper will not fulfill the requirements.
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You must be very careful about accusing a student of cheating unless you have clear proof, because a false accusation can be both cruel and reason for litigation.
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Understand why students cheat
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Do not assume that students know what plagiarism i
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As you read the papers, look for internal evidence that may indicate plagiarism.
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Mitchel ReeseThis article discusses everything there is to know about plagiarism in the public school systems. It goes in depth about how it is important to understand why students use plagiarism and how to catch plagiarism and fix it.
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Cutting and pasting to create a paper from several sources. These "assembly-kit" papers are often betrayed by wide variations in tone, diction, and citation style. The introduction and conclusion are often student-written and therefore noticeably different from and weaker than the often glowing middle.
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Citing a source, whether paraphrased or quoted, reveals that they have performed research work and synthesized the findings into their own argument. Using sources shows that the student in engaged in "the great conversation," the world of ideas, and that the student is aware of other thinkers' positions on the topic.
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Paid databases over the Web. This category includes commercial databases for consumers (such as Northern Light's Special Collection) and databases that libraries subscribe to, containing scholarly journals, newspapers, court cases and the like. Providers like Lexis-Nexis, UMI Proquest, Infotrac, JSTOR and others are in this group. To find information from this category, you must have access to the database (through password or an on-campus computer) and search on the database directly.
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Jean LuddyStrategies for instruction about plagiarism and paraphrasing and suggestions for handling unsourced copying when it occurs.
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Many students simply do not know what plagiarism is.
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Many other students know what plagiarism is, but don't consider it wrong.
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Students are natural economizers. Many students are interested in the shortest route possible through a course.
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Remind students that the purpose of the course is to learn and develop skills and not just "get through."
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udents are faced with too many choices, so they put off low priorities.
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customize the research topic to include something of real interest to the students or to offer topics with high intrinsic interest to them.
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students have poor time management and planning skills
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structure your research assignment so that intermediate parts of it (topic, early research, prospectus, outline, draft, bibliography, final draft) are due at regular intervals, students will be less likely to get in a time-pressure panic and look for an expedient shortcut.
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udents fear that their writing ability is inadequate
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Reassuring students of the help available to them (your personal attention, a writing center, teaching assistants, online writing lab sites, etc.) may give them the courage to persevere.
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A few students like the thrill of rule breaking.
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present the assignment and the proper citation of sources in a positive light
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Downloading a free research paper.
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Buying a paper from a commercial paper mill.
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Copying an article from the Web or an online or electronic database.
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- Copying a paper from a local source. Papers may be copied from students who have taken your course previously, from fraternity files, or from other paper-sharing sources near campus. If you keep copies of previous papers turned in to you, they can be a source of detection of this particular practice.
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Cutting and pasting to create a paper from several sources.
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Quoting less than all the words copied
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Faking a citation.
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. Educate your students about plagiarism
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Plagiarism is using another person's words or ideas without giving credit to the other person. When you use someone else's words, you must put quotation marks around them and give the writer or speaker credit by revealing the source in a citation. Even if you revise or paraphrase the words of someone else or just use their ideas, you still must give the author credit in a note. Not giving due credit to the creator of an idea or writing is very much like lying."
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Clarifying for them that plagiarism is a combination of stealing (another's words) and lying (claiming implicitly that the words are the student's own) should be mentioned at some point, but should not be the whole emphasis or you risk setting up a challenge for the rebels (those who like to break the rules just for fun).
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henever they cite a source, they are strengthening their writing.
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Citing a source, whether paraphrased or quoted, reveals that they have performed research work and synthesized the findings into their own argument. Using sources shows that the student in engaged in "the great conversation," the world of ideas, and that the student is aware of other thinkers' positions on the topic. By quoting (and citing) writers who support the student's position, the student adds strength to the position.
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Make the penalties clear. If an institutional policy exists, quote it in your syllabus. If you have your own policy, specify the penalties involved.
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Make the assignment clear.
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Be specific about your expectations.
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Change topics from semester to semester whenever possible.
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Provide a list of specific topics and require students to choose one of them.
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Require specific components in the paper. For example, "The paper must make use of two Internet sources, two printed book sources, two printed journal sources, one personal interview, and one personally conducted survey."
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Use of one or more sources written within the past year. A requirement like this will quickly outdate most paper mill products.
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A personal interview with an expert or authority. An interview creates both a current and a checkable source.
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Set a series of due dates throughout the term for the various steps of the research paper process: topic or problem, preliminary bibliography, prospectus, research material (annotated photocopies of articles, for example), outline, rough draft, final annotated bibliography, final draft.
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Require oral reports of student papers
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Alternative to an in-class presentation is a one-on-one office meeting, where you can quiz the student about several aspects of the paper as needed.
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Have students include an annotated bibliography.
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Require most references to be up-to-date.
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If you require all research material to be, say, less than five years old, you will automatically eliminate thousands of online papers
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have students write an in-class essay about what they learned from the assignment
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Require a metalearning essay.
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Look for the clues.
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Mixed citation styles
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Lack of references or quotations.
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nusual formatting
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Off topi
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Signs of datedness.
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Anachronisms
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Anomalies of diction
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the sophisticated scholar's paragraph precedes the breezy journalist's commentary, which may be followed by the student's own highly colloquial addition.
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Anomalies of style
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Smoking guns.
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perform an exact phrase search on a four-to-six-word phrase from a suspect part of the pape
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Remember that no search engine covers more than about a third of the visible Web, so you should try several engines before you give up.
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the best plagiarism detector is the student who handed in the paper, because he or she already knows whether or not the paper is genuine, or what part is fraudulent.
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Victor Ferreirarec from Karla (grad study) U of Stout Wisconson
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Plagiarism is using another person's words or ideas without giving credit to the other person. When you use someone else's words, you must put quotation marks around them and give the writer or speaker credit by revealing the source in a citation. Even if you revise or paraphrase the words of someone else or just use their ideas, you still must give the author credit in a note. Not giving due credit to the creator of an idea or writing is very much like lying
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Linda GreenwoodRobert Harris gives educators strategies to help students avoid plagiarizing a research paper.
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Leslie HandellAnti-Plagiarism Strategies for Research Papers
The availability of textual material in electronic format has made plagiarism easier than ever. Copying and pasting of paragraphs or even entire essays now can be performed with just a few mouse clicks. The strategies discussed here can be used to combat what some believe is an increasing amount of plagiarism on research papers and other student writing. By employing these strategies, you can help encourage students to value the assignment and to do their own work.
Strategies of Awareness
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