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Title: Plagiarism


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Plagiarism
Keele University Postgraduate Students Induction
  • Stephen Bostock and Mike Brough

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Summary
  • What is it?
  • Why is it a problem?
  • Keeles position
  • How is technology involved?
  • The regulations

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Plagiarism
  • Literary theft, cheating, copying
  • Passing off someone elses work or ideas as ones
    own, without giving them credit or
    acknowledgement
  • Intentional or not
  • Including
  • Plagiarising published/ web sources
  • Plagiphrasing patching text together from
    different sources or reworking a single source
  • Colluding (not collaborating)
  • Fraudulent authorship

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Examples of misconduct
  • Copy a paragraph exactly
  • Copy a paragraph and replace a few words
  • Create a paragraph by copying sentences from
    other sources
  • All these are wrong unless copied text is in
    quotes and the sources are acknowledged.
  • If an idea but not text is being re-used, no
    quotes are possible but you still need to
    acknowledge the source.

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An example
  • One purpose is attempt to shock, to generate
    awareness - focusing on urban lifestyles and
    living, resource utilization etc. Secondly, to
    build scenarios if criteria used to define the
    footprints are changed, or resource utilization
    reduced, how does it affect the footprints?
    Finally, to evaluate and monitor policies and
    programs (Rees, 2001). What footprints have
    particular policies and programs generated? If
    their structure is changed and modified, or new
    policies put in place, how are footprints
    affected?

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Examples of good practice
  • If you use someones words put them in quotes and
    give the source (publication, page)
  • If you use someones ideas in your own words,
    give the source (publication, page)
  • If you use your own words for your own ideas,
    great! Justify them.

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Why is this a problem?
  • For the student
  • failure to achieve academic learning outcomes
  • treated as academic misconduct
  • For the teacher
  • a waste of time, an irritation
  • For the institution
  • threat to reputation and value of degrees
  • QA, regulations, and legislative context

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Collaboration and collusion
  • Collaboration is encouraged even in preparation
    for individual assessed writing
  • Academic discussion, pre-writing, sharing
    sources, peer review, proof reading
  • Collusion is shared work but claimed to be
    individual
  • Sharing text
  • Sharing ideas/problem-solving that leads to the
    same answer
  • Technical editing, redrafting by others
  • Where to draw the line may vary with discipline
    and with assignment check with your tutor.
  • Acknowledge any help you got including proof
    reading (in an Acknowledgements statement)

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Keeles position
  • Keele is a scholarly community with a culture of
    research and teaching The pursuit of truth in
    the company of friends.
  • Plagiarism (or collusion) is serious misconduct.
  • We (the University and the students Union) want
    to raise student expectations of scholarly
    writing, providing guidance teaching.
  • Staff will set a good example in their own
    materials.
  • Regulations and procedures are applied
    consistently across the University.
  • Each School has an Academic Conduct Officer.
  • Software supports the detection/confirmation of
    plagiarism or collusion.

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Technology
  • Electronic writing makes it easier to plagiarize
  • Web documents give more opportunity cheat Web
    sites
  • Internet communication widens the geographical
    scope but
  • Technology also aids detection

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Turnitin www.submit.ac.uk
  • The Plagiarism Detection Service detects use of
    the web, collusion within and between cohorts,
    and published text books.
  • A demonstration web site open to all.
  • Guides for teachers and students are available.
  • Keele licenses its use Schools use it to provide
    consistent evidence.
  • Students should expect to have work checked
    without notice, either to investigate a suspicion
    or (occasionally) to screen a whole cohort of
    work.

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Web sites
  • Sources on plagiarismhttp//www.keele.ac.uk/depts
    /aa/landt/links/plagiarism.htm
  • Keele regulations and guidancehttp//www.keele.ac
    .uk/depts/aa/regulationshandbook/reg8.htmcheating
    http//www.keele.ac.uk/depts/aa/regulationshandbo
    ok/plagiarism.htmhttp//www.keele.ac.uk/depts/aa/
    regulationshandbook/cheating.htm
  • The Keele key skills package has a section on
    plagiarism http//www.learn.keele.ac.uk/lskills/TL
    TP3/entersite.html
  • Postgraduate induction materials (SB,
    MB)http//www.keele.ac.uk/depts/aa/landt/pg/index
    .htm
  • Frequently asked questions on assessmenthttp//w
    ww.keele.ac.uk/depts/aa/regulationshandbook/faqs.h
    tmassess

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References and reading
  • 1. From Academic writing for graduate students by
    Swales and Feale, University of Michigan, 1993
  • 2. Colon, A. 2001 Avoid the pitfalls of
    plagiarism, Writer 114 (1) p. 8
  • 3. JISC Plagiarism project 2001
    http//online.northumbria.ac.uk/faculties/art/inf
    ormation_studies/Imri/Jiscpas/site/jiscpas.asp
    including A guide to good practice by Jude
    Carroll Jon Appleton
  • 4. Park, C. 2003 In other (peoples) words
    plagiarism by university students literature
    and lessons, Assessment and Evaluation in HE 28
    (5) 471-488
  • 5. Franklyn-Stokes, A. and Newstead, S.E. 1995
    Undergraduate cheating who does what and why,
    Studies in Higher Education, 20 (2)
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