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CITE
PLAGIARISM: THE CUT AND PASTE GENERATION
April Faculty Meeting
What is plagiarism? According to Webster’s dictionary,
plagiarism is…
Do you think it’s happening in your classroom?According to the website Plagiarism.org
• “Recent studies indicate that approximately 30 percent of all students may be plagiarizing on every written assignment they complete.”
•“A national survey published in Education Week found:
-54% of students admitted to plagiarizing from the internet;
-74% of students admitted that at least once during the past school year they had engaged in "serious" cheating;
-47% of students believe their teachers sometimes choose to ignore students who are cheating.”
South Middle School’s Plagiarism Policy
Let’s take a look at our current school policy…
• At the beginning of every year, students and parents are required to sign and return this form to the English department.
• It is located on South Middle’s website if you’d like to further review the policy.
Intentional vs. Unintentional
• Even though the students are aware that intentionally plagiarizing is against school policy, students and parents need to know that unintentional plagiarism is just as serious.
• Unintentional plagiarism usually results from poor note-taking, lack of paraphrasing skills and not knowing how to properly cite sources.
Prevention is easier than prosecution• Redesigning projects/assignments• Emphasizing and repeated practice
of note-taking and paraphrasing skills• Checkpoints • Emphasis on avoiding plagiarism as a
life-long skill– Examples of real life
situations/consequences
Want to be scared?
HPP vs. LPP• High Probability of Plagiarism
– Does not emphasize higher level thinking• Requires only facts, not analysis• Often starts with “tell about…”
– Generic, lack relevance to student – All information can be retrieved
from a single source
Luscre, Anthony. Technology Ethics, 2010
HPP vs. LPP• Low Probability of Plagiarism
– Stress higher level thinking skills/creativity• Use terms such as: compare, contrast,
evaluate, effects of, interpret, document, etc.
– Involves a variety of information finding activities/sources
Luscre, Anthony. Technology Ethics, 2010
HPP vs. LPP• Low Probability of Plagiarism
– Gives students choices/relevant to students life
– Can be collaborative
– Include a technological element (ie. Graph, video, photos, etc.)
Luscre, Anthony. Technology Ethics, 2010
HPP vs. LPP • Utilize formats that use multiple
senses
• Provide students with a rubric detailing performance and expectations
Luscre, Anthony. Technology Ethics, 2010
Examples of HPP vs. LPP
• HPP– My research is about
an assigned animal.
– My research is about an assigned state.
– My research is about any subject of my choosing, I do not need to accomplish a specific task with my report. (research questions not defined)
Luscre, Anthony. Technology Ethics, 2010
• LPP– How can our school stop
the growth of the population of unwanted and abandoned pets in our community?
– How might middle schools change or enhance their curricula to better prepare students for the challenges of our digital world?
– My research draws conclusions, weighs possible solutions and describes potential actions.
Note-taking and Paraphrasing
• Don’t assume students have these skills
• Need to be practiced and implemented into many different lessons
• Encourage students to take responsibility once these methods have been taught
• Use the library as a resource!!
Checkpoints• Ask students to hand in pieces of the
project/assignment at different times.
• If plagiarism is suspected at the checkpoints, address it as a learning opportunity and give student a chance to correct mistakes.
• May create more work for the teacher but the end result will be of higher quality and the likelihood of plagiarism will be much lower.
Why do I need to know this?• Use real life examples to prove to students that
this is a serious subject.– NY Times journalist, Jayson Blair, was accused and found
guilty of plagiarizing from another journalist’s story. He was forced to resign from the newspaper.
– Harvard student, Kaavya Viswanathan, was accused of plagiarizing in her novel, How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life. She lost her publishing contract and all copies of her book were destroyed.
Help control the pet population. Have your pets
spayed or neutered!