Plagiarism

- Causes of Plagiarism- Shared Responsibilities- Best Practices for preventing Plagiarism

Kye Gon Larissa Ayesha

Did you know?

The penalties for plagiarism can be surprisingly severe, ranging from failure of classes and expulsion from academic institutions to heavy fines and jail time!

http://www.plagiarism.org/learning_center/preventing_plagiarism.html

What is Plagiarism?

Definition Plagiarism occurs when a writer deliberately uses

someone else’s language, ideas, or other original (not common-knowledge) material without acknowledging.

It applies to texts published in print or on-line, to manuscripts, and to the work of other student writers.

Submitting someone else’s text as one’s own or attempting to blur the line between one’s own ideas or words and those borrowed from another source

Carelessly or inadequately citing ideas and words

borrowed from another source.

What are the causes?

Discussion Question: What are the causes of Plagiarism?

What are the causes? Students may be afraid of failure or taking risks in their own

work. Students may be lack of time management ability and making

an effort for researching and writing Students may not take the issue of plagiarism seriously. Teachers may fail to report cheating, or may not give an

appropriate penalty to students Students may don’t know how to combine the ideas

appropriately of other resources Students may think error is natural part of learning. Instructors may not give appropriate knowledge how to write, or

they assume that students already know the way of writing documents

Foreign students may not know the conventions governing attribution and plagiarism

Shared Responsibilities

Discussion Question: “What do you think about responsibilities

that we as teachers or students or administration should share? What are our responsibilities to behave ethically?”

Value academic dishonesty

Student Responsibilities

Research assignments are opportunities for

rigorous inquiry and learning

Relevant sources should be analyzed and

determined

How ideas from resources should be drawn or

phrased

Sources should be cited

They should consult with instructors how to put

contributions of others to their thought and writing

Faculty Responsibilities Encourage students to investigate and analyze

resources Build support for researched writing State policies for documenting sources to

avoid plagiarism Teach how to cite documents and allow

practicing skills Engage students in the process of writing to

produce materials (notes, drafts, revisions) Discuss problems to documenting and offer

strategies of avoiding plagiarism Discuss papers suspected plagiarism Report cases of plagiarism to administration

Administrators Responsibilities Publicize policies for conducting ethical research

Publicize procedures for investigating cases of

academic dishonesty and its penalties

Provide support services for students how to cite

sources

Support discussions of issues concerning

plagiarism

Improve working conditions

Provide opportunities to change the ways to work

with writing

Best Practices for preventing Plagiarism

Discussion Question: What strategies can be used for eliminating

plagiarism? Educators Students

Plagiarism prevention guidelines for Educators

Explain Plagiarism Explain what is wrong about Plagiarism Make the Consequences Clear Start off with Clear Expectation Improve the Design and Sequence of

Assignments Assign Specific Topics Attend to Sources and the Use of Reading Have the Students Annotate their Bibliography Work on Plagiarism Responsibility Take Appropriate Disciplinary Actions

Plagiarism prevention guidelines for Students

Consult your Instructor Plan your paper Take effective notes When in doubt, cite sources Make clear who said what Know what to Paraphrase Evaluate your sources

Sources

Council of Writing Program Administrators http://www.wpacouncil.org

Plagiarism.org http://www.plagiarism.org/