Teacher, is 'copypaste' one word or two?

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Teacher, is 'copypaste' one word or two?

• Ann Shlapobersky

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Whose writing?

• Can you recognize your students' writing style?
• Are you aware of the lexicon and sentence
  structure your students know for their level of
  English?

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Who wrote it?

• Rappers may write, memorize, or improvise their
  lyrics and perform their works a cappella.. .
• (Wikipedia)
• Rappers sometime write, remember or make up the
  words to the song and then perform without music.
• (me)
• Rappers may write, commit to memory, or contrive
  their lyrics and perform their works acoustic
• (thesaurus)

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What is plagiarism?

• Origin 1621, from L. plagiarius  "kidnapper,
  seducer, plunderer,
• the unauthorized use or close imitation of the
  language and thoughts of another author and the
  representation of them as one's own original
  work. www.dictionary.com
• the act of using another person's words or ideas
  without giving credit to that person
  http//www.learnersdictionary.com/search/plagiaris
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• "intentionally representing the words, ideas, or
  data of another as ones own in any academic
  exercise without providing proper citation." NU
  Academic Integrity Policy

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copy/paste and plagiarism

• Is there a difference, for our students, between
  
• copy/paste and plagiarism?
• How do we explain to our students the meaning
  of
• 'in your own words'
• What makes in your own words so difficult for
  our students?

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Can you spot the difference?

• Since all people of the world, including the most
  isolated tribal groups, have a form of music,
  scientists conclude that music is likely to have
  been present in the ancestral population prior to
  the dispersal of humans around the world.

• Since all people of the world, including the most
  inaccessible clannish groups, have a figure of
  music, scientists terminate that music is likely
  to have been gift in the inherited population
  preceding to the scattering of humans around the
  world.

So, who wrote which and how?
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What did the student do here?

• Amount of those works composed for his short life
  and the quality exceptional puts him one of the
  greatest classical composers of all time.
• (Morfix)
• ??????? ?????? ?????. ???? ??????? ???? ???? ????
  ???? ?????? ??????? ????? ????? ??????? ???? ????
  ?????? ???????? ???????? ?? ?? ??????.
• (Wikipedia)

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Is there a difference between
paraphrasing and summarizing

• Paraphrasing
• a rewording of something spoken or written,
  usually for the purpose of making its meaning
  clearer - http//www.yourdictionary.com/paraphrase
  
• a restatement of a text or passage giving the
  meaning in another form, as for clearness
  rewording. www.dictionary.com

• Summarize
• state or express in a concise form.
  http//dictionary.reference.com/browse/summarize
  
• give a rundown of, put in a nutshell, give the
  main points of Collins Thesaurus of the English
  Language

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In order to paraphrase or summarize what do the
students need to know?

• Topic of paragraph
• Key words
• Main idea
• Identify supporting details
• Restate the main idea in your own words

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Summarizing a poem

• Grandma by Karen Haag
• "Let me tell you this story," you'd say.And
  soon, we'd be giggling at your stories.Laughter
  came easily around you.
• "Have you seen this cartoon, cut from the paper?"
  you'd write.We'd pull out your rumpled cartoons
  and the dollar from the letter you sent.We
  received your cards with little appreciation at
  the time.
• "Let's make hot crossed cinnamon buns!" you
  suggested.We'd all get to work, rolling pin and
  flour spread on the counter.Your baking
  permeated the kitchen.
• "You do that very well," you kindly offered.You
  noticed when we did our best and it didn't matter
  if our efforts were perfect.Your kind words
  cuddled us safely like one of your quilts.
• Many years have passed but the memories
  linger."A little something sweet would be nice,"
  you'd say after every evening meal.And so you
  were, too... a sweet treasure to us all.

• Summary
• Grandma tells stories.
• Grandma sends little things.
• Grandma cooks.
• Grandma compliments us.
• Grandma is a sweet treasure.

http//www.liketoread.com/read_strats_summarize.ph
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Plagiarize, Paraphrase, Summarize!

• The original passageStudents frequently
  overuse direct quotation in taking notes, and as
  a result they overuse quotations in the final
  research paper. Probably only about 10 of your
  final manuscript should appear as directly quoted
  matter. Therefore, you should strive to limit the
  amount of exact transcribing of source materials
  while taking notes. Lester, James D. Writing
  Research Papers. 2nd ed. (1976) 46-47.
• (51 words)
• Sample Purdue OWL Paraphrasing
  http//owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/619/01/
  

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• A legitimate paraphrase
• In research papers students often quote
  excessively, failing to keep quoted material down
  to a desirable level. Since the problem usually
  originates during note taking, it is essential to
  minimize the material recorded verbatim (Lester
  46-47). (34 words)
• An acceptable summary
• Students should take just a few notes in direct
  quotation from sources to help minimize the
  amount of quoted material in a research paper
  (Lester 46-47). (24 words)
• A plagiarized version
• Students often use too many direct quotations
  when they take notes, resulting in too many of
  them in the final research paper. In fact,
  probably only about 10 of the final copy should
  consist of directly quoted material. So it is
  important to limit the amount of source material
  copied while taking notes. (53 words)

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What type of questions encourage copy/paste?

• Facts
• When/Where did he live, die, write.
• His/her/its background, location.
• Historical information
• When was it created, developed, discovered?
• What was it used for?
• Why did it happen?
• Who caused it? What were the causes?
• Specific information
• Who, when, where, with who (whom)

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What type of questions discourage copy/paste?

• Compare/contrast
• How are Superman and Spiderman different or
  similar?
• What are the similarities and differences between
  a farmer and city dwellers during a drought?
• Inference
• How do you know that Little Red Riding Hood isnt
  sure it is her grandmother in the bed?
• What leads us to believe that Larry Kellers
  plane crash wasnt an accident?
• Distinguishing different perspectives
• Your house has only one working television right
  now.You and your sister/brother want to watch a
  different TV program. Who should watch it and
  why?
• Explaining cause and effect
• It is raining today. What cant you do?
• Give examples how lack of rain in the winter
  effects homes and agriculture.

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What can discourage plagiarism?

• A rubric
• Threat of failure
• Working in class only
• Practicing writing skills on simple texts
• Additional options________________
• Preparing a project/tasks appropriate for the
  class/student language and maturity level.

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Should you

• check a students project/task for plagiarism?
• accept projects/tasks where the student has
  clearly plagiarized?
• accept projects/tasks that clearly arent in the
  students own words and the 'tutor' helped write?

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A project or task should be

• appropriate for the maturity level of the
  students.
• associated to the subject matter taught in
  class.
• appropriate for the language level of the students

Ann Shlapobersky ashlapo_at_gmail.com