Title: Preventing Student Plagiarism with Online Tools and Guidelines for Intellectual Integrity
1- Preventing Student Plagiarism with Online Tools
and Guidelines for Intellectual Integrity
2Questions
- What is the student context?
- How often do students plagiarize? Why?
- What are the problems with plagiarism detection
tools? - How do you define plagiarism? Intellectual
integrity? How do students know? - How can you encourage intellectual integrity?
Reduce plagiarism?
3What is the student context?
4Student Context
- computers
- rapid access
- cut-and-paste
- whole papers
- excerpts
- fees
5How often do students plagiarize?
6often
- 75...CAI (Center for Academic Integrity)
Research, Duke University - less (Chronicle of Higher Education)
- before college (American School Board Journal)
7Why do students plagiarize?
8why
- Lack of skills
- Confusion
- Careless note taking
- Cultural dispositions
- Panic, pressure
- Procrastination
- Schoolsucks.com download your workload
9What are the problems with plagiarism detection
tools?
10problems
- Unlawful gain
- Publicity for plagiarism
- Incomplete databases
- Instructor works
- False positives, negatives
- Conflicting interests
11problems
- Two online services that help professors check
student papers for plagiarism -- PlagiServe.com
and EduTie.com -- appear to have ties to Web
sites that sell term papers to students.
Chronicle of Higher Education, Information
Technology, Tuesday, March 12, 2002,
http//chronicle.com/free/2002/03/2002031201t.htm
12problems
- Students still can plagiarize
13How do you define plagiarism?
14How do you define intellectual integrity?
15How do your students know?
16How can you encourage intellectual integrity?
17Plagiarizing Examples
- English
- Physical Geology
- Art History
18Plagiarizing Example 1-English
- Politics How does a particular novel -- say,
Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale -- raise its
political questions? And does it raise these
questions effectively? For example, would you say
that the novel's "reconstructed" style helps or
hinders its political agenda? And what about the
novel's ending?
19Plagiarizing Example 1-English
- Search Terms Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale
politics
20Plagiarizing Example 1-English
- Google Search http//www.brothersjudd.com/index.
cfm/fuseaction/reviews.detail/book_id/750/Handmaid
's20T.htm
21Plagiarizing Example 1-English
- Mamma Search http//endeavor.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/
lit-med-db/webdocs/webdescrips/atwood157-des-.html
22Plagiarizing Example 1-English
- Altavista Search http//www.netessays.net/viewpap
er/1358.html
23Plagiarizing Example 1-English
- Yahoo Search http//www.megaessays.com/viewpaper/
9360.html
24Plagiarizing Example 1-English
- Hotbot Search http//www.gilest.org/32.php3
(discussion board - ant plagiarist commentary)
25Plagiarizing Example 1-English
- Askjeeves Search (What are the politics in
Atwoods The Handmaids Tale?)
26Search Examples 2 and 3
27Structured Assignment 1
- English 102, Writing Research PapersDr.
Marylynne Diggs Permission to use received
1/26/05 from mdiggs_at_clark.edu.
http//web.clark.edu/diggma/102/102home.htm or
http//thor.clark.edu/diggma/102/102home.htm
28Structured Assignment 2
- Course Paper Assignment,Sociological Research
Methods IIDr. James Daniel LeePermission to use
received by email on 1/26/05 from
jdlee_at_jaguar1.usouthal.eduhttp//www.southalabama
.edu/sociologyandanthropology/lee/website/CPA.pdf
29Structured Assignment 3
- GLG310 Structural Geology 2004 Information about
Research Assignment Dr. Ramon ArrowsmithDr.
Steve Reynolds Permission to use received by
email on 1/26/05 from ramon.arrowsmith_at_asu.edu
with cc to sreynolds_at_asu.edu http//activetecto
nics.la.asu.edu/Structural_Geology/Labs/FinalProje
ct/ with links to general project outline and to
writing tips
30Structured Assignment 4
- EAS 100 Planet EarthDept. of Earth Atmospheric
SciencesTerm Paper AssignmentProf. Lawrence W.
BrailePermission to use received by email on
1/27/05 from braile_at_purdue.edu.
http//www.eas.purdue.edu/braile/eas100/term.do
c orhttp//www.eas.purdue.edu/7Ebraile/eas100/t
erm.pdf or http//www.eas.purdue.edu/braile/eas1
00/term.pdf - Prof. Braile wrote On the plagiarism issue, I
found a few years ago that there were several
copy and paste term papers turned in. Now I have
a section in the assignment and I go over this
issue in class and there are many fewer
plagiarized papers.
31Issues
- Student Context
- Incidence of Plagiarism
- Problems with Plagiarism Detection
- Defining Plagiarism, Intellectual Integrity
- Communicating Expectations
- Encouraging Intellectual Integrity
- Reducing Plagiarism
32What else would help?
Will you evaluate workshop?