Plagiarism: Identifying It, Dealing with It, Deterring It

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Plagiarism Identifying It, Dealing with It,
Deterring It
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Plagiarism Identifying It, Dealing with It,
Deterring It

• Derek Briton Asst. Prof., Work Community
  Stds. MAIntegrated Studies
• Jeff Taylor Prof., Work Community Stds.,
  Program Director, Arts
• Tim Parker Tutor, Psychology
• David Otto Tutor, Business/Applied Studies
• Izak Paul Tutor, Science
• Cheryl Kier Tutor, Psychology

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Inspiration for Session

• Existing policy for dealing with plagiarism has
  certain absences
• The Registrar, Gilbert Perras, is about to revise
  the existing policy
• Learning Services conference seemed an ideal
  location to get valuable feedback from our
  resident experts

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Structure of Session(s)

• Derek
• Brief overview of issues related to plagiarism
• Jeff
• Review of AUs existing policy on plagiarism
• Tim Park
• Recount personal experiences with plagiarism
• Questions/Discussion
• Cheryl, David, Izak
• Recount personal experiences with plagiarism
• Questions/Discussion

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Concise Definition

• Plagiarism is the stealing or using of the
  writing or ideas of others as though they are
  ones own. The word comes from Latin, plagium,
  which means kidnapping.
• Plagiarism Prevention
• University of Wisconsin-Platteville
• www.uwplatt.edu/library/reference/plagiarism.html
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Plagiarism Intellectual Honesty
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Intellectual Honesty Defined
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Academic Honesty

• To claim contributions and ideas of another as
  your own is cheating
• If you fail to indicate that material is quoted
  by enclosing the material in quotation marks
• If you do not acknowledge the source of a direct
  quotation within the text of the paper, in
  footnotes, on the Works Cited or Reference page,
  or if you do not identify the correct source of a
  quotation
• If you included paraphrased or summarized
  information (that is not generally accepted as
  "common knowledge") and do not acknowledge its
  source

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Dealing With Plagiarism

• Legalistically-worded policies divorce the act of
  plagiarism from student intent AUs e.g.,
• The result can be very serious if you
  plagiarize, whether intentionally or not.
• But should intentional plagiarism be treated the
  same as unintentional?
• This is only one of many questions related to
  plagiarism/academic-honesty that educators have
  to deal with

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Identifying Plagiarism

• Unusually sophisticated writing/work
• Sources and examples from different context than
  content (Canadian content, UK stats.)
• Missing footnotes, references and/or
  charts/graphs
• Paper printed from Web browser
• References to courses/classes nottaught at AU
• Dead URLs and/or dated material
• Plagiarism in Colleges in USA
• Ronald B. Standler
• www.rbs2.com/plag.htm

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Dealing With Plagiarism

• http//www.miami.com/herald/content/news/canada/di
  gdocs/052989.htm

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A Technological Solution

• UBC has joined a growing list of Canadian
  institutionsincluding the Royal Military College
  of Canada, the University of New Brunswick and
  the University of Western Ontariosubscribing to
  http//www.turnitin.coman Oakland, Calif., based
  company that maintains a massive database to
  check originality.

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Why a Technological Solution?

• Paul Chwelos, a professor in UBC's commerce
  faculty, was instrumental in bringing the program
  to the university after using it while he taught
  at the University of California at Irvine.
• Information technology like the Internet is good
  and bad, says Chwelos.
• The Internet enables students to do good
  research, but it also makes cutting and pasting
  and plagiarizing easier.

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How Tech. Solution Works

• http//www1.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9911/21/plageri
  sm.detective/

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Commercial Services

• To prevent collegiate copycats, two graduate
  students at the University California at Berkeley
  have devised a program that compares a submission
  with every other term- paper on the Web.
• We essentially search a hundred million Web
  pages on the Internet,interfacing with the top 20
  search engines," said John Barrie, of
  www.plagiarism.org. "We also compare that with
  our local data base of term papers."

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TurnItIn.com
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Glatt Plagiarism Services

• httpwww.plagiarism.com

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EVE2.2

• http//www.canexus.com/eve/index.shtml

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Free Services

• MOSS http//www.cs.berkeley.edu/aiken/moss.html

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Plagiarized.com
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Plagiserve.com
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Paper Mill Sites

• http//www.wiu.edu/users/mfbhl/wiu/plagiarism.htm

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Curricula Solutions

• http//www.wiu.edu/users/mfbhl/wiu/plagiarism.htm
• Specific, non-generic instructions for
  papers/assignments
• Assignments that capture students interest
• Specific instructions on bibliographies and
  demand materials from required readings, web
  sites
• Require specific components from assigned
  readings, etc.
• Use paper mill sites as topic for paper on ethics
• Consult with students re their writing/research
• Require students to include one-pager on paper
  preparation process, what theyre proud of in
  their papers, what they had trouble with, what
  they learned, etc.