A study by The Center for Academic Integrity found that almost 80% of college students admit to cheating at least once.

 

 

According to a survey by the Psychological Record 36% of undergraduates have admitted to plagiarizing written material.

 

A poll conducted by US News and World Reports found that 90% of students believe that cheaters are either never caught or have never been appropriately disciplined.

 

from http://www.plagiarism.org/plagiarism_stats.html

 

 

 

QUICK RESOURCE SHEET #86

 

  

 

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Plagiarism

 

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Definitions of plagiarism on the Web:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

With the growing availability of original source material on the Internet, often at no cost, the chances that students are plagiarizing are likely to be increasing, while detecting such plagiarism seems to be getting more difficult. Of course, not all cases of plagiarism are willful, but they are damaging nevertheless, both in terms of the failure to give proper credit where credit is due, and the failure of student writers to develop their ideas in the most original ways possible.

 

There are excellent resources available for both teachers and students explaining the finer points of what does and does not constitute plagiarism, with concrete examples of the different forms it takes, and equally concrete suggestions for avoiding rule-breaking and even law-breaking misappropriation of others’ intellectual property. Finally, for when it’s necessary, there are improved programs to help instructors determine when students have crossed the line and claimed credit for material not truly theirs.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://gervaseprograms.georgetown.edu/hc/plagiarism.html

 

“They Said It So Much Better. Shouldn't I Use Their Words?

Yeah, and Michael Jordan can hit a fadeaway jump shot better than you can... Learning to write is learning to think. Sure you won't have a lot of original thoughts, very few of us do. But you will have your original way of looking at things, which is a combination of everything you have done to this point in your life. As you read others' works and ponder, argue with, distill, reconcile yourself to, or reject them, you are growing intellectually, just as you would grow physically by lifting weights or playing the piano.”

 

 

 

 

 

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/589/01/

 

 

“Here is a brief list of what needs to be credited or documented:

 

 

 

http://www-writing.berkeley.edu/TESL-EJ/ej23/f1.html

 

 

“Finally, are we as teachers setting good examples? What acts of plagiarism are we committing in students' full view--"borrowing" activities from published authors or colleagues, using elements of others' websites without attribution or permission, photocopying instead of buying textbooks? We can't expect students to live up to standards we don't adhere to ourselves.”

 

 

 

 

http://www.virtualsalt.com/antiplag.htm

 

“On the day you collect the papers, have students write an in-class essay about what they learned from the assignment. What problems did they face and how did they overcome them? What research strategy did they follow?  Where did they locate most of their sources? What is the most important thing they learned from investigating this subject?  For most students, who actually did the research paper, this assignment will help them think about their own learning. It also provides you with information about the students' knowledge of their papers and it gives you a writing sample to compare with the papers. If a student's knowledge of the paper and its process seems modest or if the in-class essay quality diverges strikingly from the writing ability shown in the paper, further investigation is probably warranted.”

 

 

 

 

http://www.web-miner.com/plagiarism

 

 

A vast collection of links to news articles on the topic of plagiarism.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Previous editions of the QUICK RESOURCE SHEET

#1 – Creating quizzes (and more) online                                                         

#2 – Vocabulary builders

#3 – Online discussion groups for English teachers                                    

#4 – Grammar headaches – and how to cure them

#5 – Resources for new teachers                                                     

#6 – International Education Week

#7 – Mentoring programs                                                                    

#8 – Education publications online

#9 – Applied Linguistics                                                                   

#10 – English for Young Learners

#11 – World AIDS Day                                                                      

#12 – Online writing guides

#13 – E-mail exchanges                                                                      

#14 – Free online English courses

#15 – Effective e-mail communication                                             

#16 – Libraries online

#17 – American Studies                                                                     

#18 – Teaching methodologies

#19 – Internet tutorials                                                                       

#20 – Using the newspaper – Part I

#21 – Making books                                                                           

#22 - Using the newspaper – Part II

#23 – Human rights in language teaching

#24 – Blogging

#25 – Poetry and language teaching

#26 – The communicative approach

#27 -  Idioms

#28 – Earth Day

#29 – Alternative assessment

#30 – Peer assessment

#31 – Self-assessment

#32 – Portfolio assessment – Part I

#33 -  Portfolio assessment - Part II (Online Portfolios)

#34 – Intercultural communication

#35 – Teaching Adults

#36 – Learning disorders / Special needs

#37 – Using computers in reading instruction

#38 – Use of authentic materials

#39 – English for Medical Purposes

#40 – Sources for authentic materials

#41 – Education and technology

#42 – Academic writing

#43 – Teaching and stress

#44 – Back to school

#45 – Motivating students

#46 – Action research

#47 – Internet terminology

#48 – Fluency

#49 – Curriculum design

#50 – Pragmatics

#51 - Podcasting for English teachers

#52 – Critical reading

#53 – Learner autonomy

#54 – Scaffolding

#55 – Holidays

#56 – English for Academic Purposes

#57 – Mixed-level classes

#58 – The brain and language learning

#59 – Book clubs/Readers’ groups

#60 – Teachers and technology

#61 – Using video in the language classroom

#62 – Internet-based classroom projects

#63 – Observing student teachers

#64 – Digital literacy

#65 – Group work

#66 – Giving feedback on student writing

#67 – Vlogging

#68 – Educational leadership

#69 – The first five minutes: How to get a class warmed up

#70 – Managing test anxiety

#71 – Developing listening comprehension

#72 – Discourse analysis

#73 – English for Tourism

#74 – Storytelling

#75 – Virtual Learning Environments

#76 – Sociolinguistics

#77 – Corpus Linguistics

#78 – Teaching teenagers

#79 – Lexical Approach

#80 – Humanism in language teaching

#81 – Collaborative teaching

#82 – Distance learning

#83 – Open Education

#84 – The non-native speaker as English teacher

#85 – Contrastive grammar