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

Detecting PlagiarismDetecting Plagiarism

Dr. Jun WangDr. Jun Wang

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Do Your Students Plagiarize ?

Do Your Students Plagiarize ?

Dealing with Plagiarism at SJDC (An article from The Record)

http://www.recordnet.com/

Does any of these ring a bell?

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..

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..

What Can We Do to What Can We Do to Prevent or Ward off Prevent or Ward off

Plagiarism?Plagiarism?

• Build an awareness by introducing students to plagiarism prevention resources or tutorials http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/pamphlets/plagiarism.pdf http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_plagiar. html http://www.depts.drew.edu/composition/Avoiding_Plagiarism.htm http://www.reshall.berkeley.edu/academics/resources/ plagiarism http://www.lib.duke.edu/libguide/plagiarism2.htm

Plagiarism Prevention TutorialsPlagiarism Prevention Tutorials

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.html#Works-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.htm• A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations

(Reference:LB2369 .T8 1996)

Useful ResourcesUseful 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)

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 won’t miss any citations

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

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)

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

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?keywords=essays

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