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Fighting Plagiarism
This article will focus on the importance of structuring research projects so they require original thought. The student will not just find an answer. The student will build an answer. To help students understand the concept of creating an idea, it helps to employ several metaphors. If students start to think of ideas like buildings, they will view research differently. Picturing an Idea Formulating an Idea - Clarifying Assignments The teacher reduces the chances of plagiarism by creating research tasks that require the formulation of an idea. Here are several ways to require original thinking as the product of student research: Make a choice — When students have to take a stand, they will be operating at the top of Bloom's Taxonomy — the skill of Evaluation. Formulating an Idea - Observing the Process One of the best strategies to reduce plagiarism involves vigilance. They may change colors while note-taking to signify and separate. Black text signifies the ideas of others. Example . . .
Avoiding Plagiarism
Summary: There are few intellectual offenses more serious than plagiarism in academic and professional contexts. This resource offers advice on how to avoid plagiarism in your work. Contributors:Karl Stolley, Allen Brizee, Joshua M. Research-based writing in American institutions, both educational and corporate, is filled with rules that writers, particularly beginners, aren't aware of or don't know how to follow. While some rhetorical traditions may not insist so heavily on documenting sources of words, ideas, images, sounds, etc., American academic rhetorical tradition does. (Purdue University students will want to make sure that they are familiar with Purdue's official academic dishonesty policy as well as any additional policies that their instructors have implemented.) Intellectual challenges in American academic writing There are some intellectual challenges that all students are faced with when writing.
L'intégrité dans les études
Les études universitaires vous ouvrent les portes d’un vaste monde de connaissances que vous aurez à découvrir en exerçant votre capacité d’analyse et en faisant preuve de rigueur dans vos méthodes de travail – méthodes qui consistent entre autres à : respecter la propriété intellectuelle en référençant correctement toutes les formes de documentation, incluant celles qui proviennent de l’Internet; reconnaître la provenance des mots, des phrases, des statistiques et des idées que vous reprenez dans vos travaux de recherche et de rédaction en les citant correctement; appuyer les arguments que vous formulez et les idées que vous transmettez en dévoilant vos sources. Dans cette section, vous trouverez quelques conseils et des documents que vous pourrez consulter pour bien effectuer vos recherches et vous engager avec confiance dans la rédaction de vos travaux universitaires.
A Copyright-Friendly Toolkit
However fabulous Creative Commons and Public Domain content may be, sometimes you really need to use copyrighted material. Say you plan to comment on popular media or current events. For instance, you may be planning to critique the portrayal of Native Americans in commercial films. You are going to want to “quote” some commercial films like Pocahontas, Lone Ranger, and Dances with Wolves. If you are reviewing a book, you may want to share its cover art. You may use copyrighted content without asking permission if you believe that your use falls under the doctrine known as Fair Use. In general, when you transform original content, repurpose it, and add value to it in your own remix, you may be able to claim the use fair. According to American University’s Center for Media and Social Impact, these two tests or questions help you plan whether to use the copyrighted work of others without asking permission: The video below explains why the Code for Fair Use in Online Video was created.
Avoiding Plagiarism: Quoting and Paraphrasing
General advice When reading a passage, try first to understand it as a whole, rather than pausing to write down specific ideas or phrases. Be selective. top Methods of Paraphrasing Look away from the source then write. If you find that you can't do A or B, this may mean that you don't understand the passage completely or that you need to use a more structured process until you have more experience in paraphrasing. The method below is not only a way to create a paraphrase but also a way to understand a difficult text. Paraphrasing difficult texts Consider the following passage from Love and Toil (a book on motherhood in London from 1870 to 1918), in which the author, Ellen Ross, puts forth one of her major arguments: Love and Toil maintains that family survival was the mother's main charge among the large majority of London? Change the structure Begin by starting at a different place in the passage and/or sentence(s), basing your choice on the focus of your paper.
Copyright Infringement: 5 Myths vs Facts
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From Now On: The New Plagiarism: Seven Antidotes to Prevent Highway Robbery in an Electronic Age
Introduction: The New Plagiarism Could electronic text spawn a virulent strain of student copying? Is cut-and-paste the enemy of thought? Many teachers who work in "wired schools" are complaining that new technologies have made it all too easy for students to gather the ideas of others and present them as their own. The New York Times reports that "cheating is on the rise." The New Plagiarism may be worse than the old because students now wield an Electronic Shovel that makes it possible to find and save huge chunks of information with little reading, effort or originality. Is the New Plagiarism any worse than the old? Under the old system of "go find out about" topical research, it took students a huge amount of time to move words from the encyclopedia pages onto white index cards, changing one word in each sentence so as to avoid plagiarism. The New Plagiarism requires little effort and is geometrically more powerful. Antidote 1 - Distinguish between levels and types of research. Resources
