Do Your Students Plagiarize? Practical Strategies on Preventing and Detecting Plagiarism

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Do Your Students Plagiarize? Practical Strategies
on Preventing and Detecting Plagiarism

• Dr. Jun Wang

Celebrating National Library Week!
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Do Your Students Plagiarize ?
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Dealing with Plagiarism at SJDC (An article from
The Record)
http//www.recordnet.com/
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Does any of these ring a bell?
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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..
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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..
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What Can We Do to Prevent or Ward off Plagiarism?
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Plagiarism Prevention Tutorials

• Build an awareness by introducing students to
  plagiarism prevention resources or tutorials
• http//www.indiana.edu/wts/pamphlets/plagiarism.p
  df
• http//owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_
  plagiar. html
• http//www.depts.drew.edu/composition/Avoiding_Pla
  giarism.htm
• http//www.reshall.berkeley.edu/academics/resource
  s/ plagiarism
• http//www.lib.duke.edu/libguide/plagiarism2.htm

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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.htmlWorks-Cited
• MLA Handbook (Reference LB2369 .G53 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 BF76.7 .P83 2001)
• Turabian (Chicago)
• http//library.deltacollege.edu/IC/turabian.html
• http//www.nwmissouri.edu/library/citing/turpar.ht
  m
• A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and
  Dissertations (ReferenceLB2369 .T8 1996)

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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 PN167 .H37 2001)
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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 wont miss any citations

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• Level of language use
• Context coherence
• Similarities in papers

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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)

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Plagiarism Detection Tools

• Web Search Engines
• Google -- Yahoo
• Fast -- 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

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Papermills Essay Sites

• Free Essay network
• http//www.freeessay.com/
• EssaySearch.com
• http//www.essaysearch.com/
• Essay Crawler
• http//www.essaycrawler.com
• Term Paper Sites
• http//www.termpapersites.com/
• Search Cowboy
• http//www.searchcowboy.com/cgi-bin/search/search.
  cgi?keywordsessays

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Popular Commercial Tool
(http//www.plagiarism.org)
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Group Discussions Recommendations