Do Your Students Plagiarize Practical Strategies on Preventing

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

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Dealing with Plagiarism at SJDC (An article from The Record) http: //www. recordnet. com/

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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, 2001. .

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, 2001. .

What Can We Do to Prevent or Ward off Plagiarism?

Plagiarism Prevention Tutorials • Build an awareness by introducing students to plagiarism prevention resources or tutorials Ø Ø Ø http: //www. indiana. edu/~wts/pamphlets/plagiarism. pdf http: //owl. english. purdue. edu/handouts/research/r_plagiar. html http: //www. depts. drew. edu/composition/Avoiding_Plagiarism. htm http: //www. reshall. berkeley. edu/academics/resources/ plagiarism http: //www. lib. duke. edu/libguide/plagiarism 2. htm

Major Writing Styles • Introduce students to print and online resource guides on major writing styles – MLA: • http: //library. deltacollege. edu/IC/mla. html • http: //owl. english. purdue. edu/handouts/research/r_mla. html#Works-Cited • MLA Handbook (Reference: LB 2369. G 53 2003) – APA: • http: //library. deltacollege. edu/IC/apa. html • http: //owl. english. purdue. edu/handouts/research/r_apa. html • Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (Reference: BF 76. 7. P 83 2001) – Turabian (Chicago): • http: //library. deltacollege. edu/IC/turabian. html • http: //www. nwmissouri. edu/library/citing/turpar. htm • A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations (Reference: LB 2369. T 8 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, 2001. 139 -152. (Main Book Collection: PN 167. H 37 2001)

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 – http: //library. deltacollege. edu/electronic. html • 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 – Fast -- Yahoo -- 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

Papermills & Essay Sites • Free Essay network: – http: //www. freeessay. com/ • Essay. Search. com: – http: //www. essaysearch. com/ • Essay Crawler: – http: //www. essaycrawler. com • Term Paper Sites: – http: //www. termpapersites. com/ • Search Cowboy: – http: //www. searchcowboy. com/cgibin/search. cgi? keywords=essays

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