Plagiarism, Preventing It and AntiPlagiarism Software

What is Plagiarism?

1. How Well Do You Know Plagiarism? Online Quiz

http://en.writecheck.com/plagiarism-quiz  

What does Plagiarism look like?

• Refer to this infographic https://goo.gl/1daaub  and understand that plagiarism comes in many forms:

• Copying word for word

• Making vocabulary changes

• Combining ideas from multiple sources and presenting as your own work

• Using others’ ideas and not citing them

• Citing sources in correct format that don’t exist

• Citing sources but paraphrasing in language and structure that is almost  identical to the original

• Learn more here: https://academicplagiarism.com/

What is the solution?

• Owl Purdue Site

  https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/resources.html

  
  

  https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/using_research/quoting_paraphrasing_and_summarizing/paraphrasing.html

• If students wish to work together they must meet with the teacher to discuss and identify how each will show evidence of their individual learning without submitting the same document.

• Student can learn to use one of these two tools and learn how to cite work or ideas or images that are not their own. Students can check their own work and ask for the citation to be automatically created to be included in their work

• BibMe (click)

• Easy Bib (click)

• Add an extension to your chrome toolbar and learn to use it https://goo.gl/AWhE6j

Academic Integrity: We want our students to demonstrate their understanding of a learning outcome. Ultimately a student who plagiarizes is not showing his or her best work or understanding of course material. We value academic rigour and honesty in our teaching and learning community and want our students to strive to achieve their very best.  Universities respect our academic integrity and trust that student demonstration of learning is their own and reflected accurately in grades.

Post secondary institutions take this violation very seriously and student discipline includes expulsion from the university. See this page at the University of Alberta http://goo.gl/JmNXOs. Ultimately my goal is to stop this behaviour so that students learn how to confidently present his/her own understanding of learning in this course.

Are you sharing your work to help someone out?

• Protect your academic integrity
• Protect your intellectual property
• Feel free to talk and explore ideas with your friends. Quote them in your essays but refrain from sharing docs. It questions your integrity as well if you do.