Plagiarism: The Crime of Intellectual Kidnapping: An Interactive Information Competence Tutorial at

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Plagiarism The Crime of Intellectual Kidnapping
An Interactive Information Competence Tutorial at
San Jose State University

• Pamela A. Jackson
• Reference/Instruction Librarian
• San Jose State University Library

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Abstract This interactive, online tutorial
teaches students about plagiarism, paraphrasing,
and citing sources. It includes a pre-quiz,
assessing what students already know, and graded
quiz at the end, testing students understanding
of plagiarism and their ability to avoid it.
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• Benefits of Using Online Tutorials
• Students learn information competence skills at
  their own pace, outside of physical classrooms
  and traditional class time.
• Students gain a common foundation of knowledge
  before the library instruction session.
• Librarians can make more of the one-hour,
  one-shot library instruction session.

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• Librarys Role in Plagiarism InstructionWhy
  should the library teach students about
  plagiarism?
• Demonstrates the librarys commitment to
  important campus issues, such as academic
  integrity.
• Campus communities frequently look to librarians
  to provide this instruction.
• ACRLs Information Literacy Competency Standards
  for Higher Education call for student
  demonstration in the legal and ethical use of
  information.

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• Collaboration with Classroom Faculty
• "Last spring, in order to address the issue of
  plagiarism, we submitted course assignments to
  turnitin.com and were astounded to discover that
  between sixty-three to seventy-five percent of
  our students plagiarized. This tutorial has
  contributed significantly to help meet the
  formidable challenge of plagiarism."
• --Debra Caires-Mullens, Coordinator of CS100w
  and June Sheldon, CS100w Instructor

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• Campus Commitment to Academic Integrity
• As a university, we need to help our students
  to really understand what it means to have
  academic integrity and why it is important to
  have it. We need to continue to find ways to help
  students understand what cheating and plagiarism
  are and why it is wrong to engage in such
  practices.
• --Annette Nellen, Chair, Academic Senate
• San José State University

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• The Accidental Plagiarist
• Students are frequently guilty of accidental
  plagiarism
• Not Citing Sources
• Lack understanding of how to properly paraphrase
  original passages

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The Creation Process Plagiarism The Crime of
Intellectual Kidnapping
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• Tutorial Highlights
• Pre-Test and Graded Quiz
• Plagiarism Definitions and Examples
• Academic Dishonesty Policies
• Plagiarism Detection Services
• Paraphrasing
• Importance of Citing Sources
• Citation Styles

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• Five Person Team
• One Librarian responsible for overall direction
  of the tutorial, and creating the content and
  quiz.
• One Information Literacy Competence Specialist
  responsible for oversight of the programming and
  graphics team collaborates with librarian on
  overall direction.
• One Programmer responsible for HTML, PHP, and
  back-end quiz databases and queries.
• Two Graphic Artists/Designers responsible for the
  artwork, Flash animations, and overall look of
  the tutorial.

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• Timeline 2002
• June 2002 Idea sparked through a conversation
  between classroom faculty and the Librarian.
• Fall 2002 Librarian began researching available
  online plagiarism resources. While there were
  many valuable websites, we did not find tutorials
  that measure student learning.

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• Timeline 2003
• Spring 2003 Librarian began writing the content
  and creating the quiz.
• Late Spring 2003/Summer 2003 Content and quiz
  completed. Programmer and Graphic Artists begin
  illustrating, and creating the back-end quiz
  database and registration page.
• Late Summer 2003 Tutorial is tested in various
  web browsers for glitches and ADA compliance.
• Fall 2003 Tutorial is launched one week before
  the fall semester begins.
• Late Fall 2003 Graphic Artist begins work on an
  animated Flash version.

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• Timeline 2004
• Spring 2004 Librarian begins writing a new quiz
  that better adheres to test writing standards.
  Team decides to make the tutorial available as a
  free download via an Open Publication License as
  soon as the Flash version and new quizzes are
  completed and tested.
• Summer 2004 Animated Flash version is launched.
  
• Fall 2004 New quiz is launched. The tutorial is
  almost ready for Open Publication release.

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• Quizzes and Queries
• Students register to take a tutorial.
• Quiz scores are automatically emailed to the
  student upon completion.
• Results are stored in a local database.
• Queries allow us to see quiz scores by class,
  student, semester (includes class averages and
  scores by question).

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• Quiz Results Show that Students
• Recognize blatant examples of plagiarism.
• Know what to include in a citation and what types
  of resources need to be cited.
• Understand academic dishonesty issues and school
  policy.

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• Quiz Results Show that Students
• Have difficulty reading an original passage and
  identifying what is wrong with a paraphrase.
• Have difficulty understanding that paraphrasing
  is NOT merely a rewriting of the original passage
  but involves synthesizing the original passage
  and writing it in their own words.

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• Revising the Quiz
• Initial quiz was active from Fall 2003 to Summer
  2004
• New quiz launched in Fall 2004
• Better adheres to multiple choice test writing
  standards.
• Includes questions that ask students to practice
  their paraphrasing skills.

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• Contribution to Student Learning
• Library is able to provide classroom faculty with
  data about their students knowledge.
• Librarians can use data to guide what they teach
  during their in-person instruction session.
• First year of quiz results show that students
  have difficulty with paraphrasing. New quiz
  gives students more practice paraphrasing.

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• Open Publication
• Positive response and requests to use the
  tutorial from high schools, community colleges
  and universities in Canada and the U.S.
• Open Publication License is based on other
  libraries OPL for tutorials (TILT and NetTrail).
  
• Programmer and Web Team are deciding what files
  and formats to make available for download.
• Programmer is creating a brief registration page
  to collect data on who downloads our tutorial.

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Link to SJSU Tutorialshttp//tutorials.sjlibrary
.org/