Dr Roni Bamber HeriotWatt University

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Dr Roni BamberHeriot-Watt University
Many of the ideas in this presentation have been
adapted from Jude Carroll (2004)
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Plagiarism

• What is it?
• Why not plagiarise?
• National developments
• Implications for student officers?

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Warm-up

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Reasons for plagiarism

• Misunderstanding
• Misuse
• Misconduct

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Reasons for plagiarism 1Misunderstanding

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What is it?

• Do you share understandings of plagiarism?
• Do lecturers share understandings?

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Plagiarism?

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Plagiarism?

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Plagiarism?

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Plagiarism?

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Plagiarism?

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Plagiarism?

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Plagiarism?

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Plagiarism?

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Plagiarism?

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Definition - Plagiarism

• Jude Carroll
• Submitting someone elses work as your own
• HWU Student Guide to Plagiarism
• Plagiarism involves the act of taking the ideas,
  writings or inventions of another person and
  using these as if they were ones own, whether
  intentionally or not.

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Reasons for plagiarism 2Misuse

• Dont know how to use academic conventions
• Citation and referencing
• How clear are you on the rules of the game
  citation and referencing?
• Discuss Worksheets 1 and 2

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Reasons for plagiarism 3 Misconduct
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Reasons for plagiarism what studies show

• Misunderstanding of rules last minute panic
  most frequently cited by students by far!
• Extrinsic motivations increasingly common
• e.g. pressure to succeed, pre-requisite courses,
  I dont need to learn this I need a good
  degree

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Studies (2)

• International students more likely to be
  punished. (Do they plagiarise more?) If so
• Fear of failure,
• lack of writing skills,
• time pressure.
• Know about concept of plagiarism
• but little idea how to comply
• paraphrasing and trying new strategies risky
• revert to tried and tested strategies
• Pre-planned fraud very rare but varies by
  disciplines. Increasing

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2 Why not plagiarise?

• University work is about students becoming
  scholars and professionals
• Morality / Fairness
• You might get caught
• Detection
• Disciplinary action
• Sanctions

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Univ of Manchester Student Discipline Cases 2006
http//www.eps.manchester.ac.uk/tlc/acmal/staff/st
aff_cases.html
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• How should staff / institutions / departments
  react?

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What to do about it?

• US bank note checker should we have equivalent
  device for student (and staff) work?
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Deterring Plagiarism

• Turnitin
• http//www.submit.ac.uk
• NB Excellent user manuals (bottom of Turnitin
  page)
• Eagle eye tactics (academics arent stupid)

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Implications for student officers?

• What are they?