Plagiarism

=‍‍Session 3 = =**Time Frame: 20 Minutes**= =Introduction: = This workshop session will briefly review the issues related to the problem of plagiarism by addressing common methods and offering strategies that can promote academic honesty and discourage plagiarism in online learning environments. ‍‍

[[image:plagiarism.gif width="290" height="160" align="left"]]Rationale:
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 (McKenzie, 1998). Teachers need to be diligent in their effort to devise strategies to detect and reduce plagiarism in online learning environments.

Objectives:
After participating in this session, participants will be able to:
 * 1) Define online plagiarism.
 * 2) Interpret why students commit plagiarism online.
 * 3) Recognize different clues related to acts of plagiarism.
 * 4) Prevent or curtail acts of plagiarism.
 * 5) Identify the increase in online plagiarism.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Procedures:
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">2 Minutes || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Part 1: What is online plagiarism? What is plagiarism? What are some types of plagiarism ? >> (Merriam-Webster, 2013) > work as your own, copying an article from the Web, cutting and pasting to create a > paper from several sources, faking a citation (Harris, 2012).
 * || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Content ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Introduction
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Define: Committing plagiarism online is one form of academic dishonesty.
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Plagiarism **
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">to use (another's production) without crediting the source
 * 3) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">to commit literary theft
 * 4) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">to present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Some types of plagiarism are downloading a free paper, submitting someone else’s

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Part 2: Why do students commit plagiarism online?

> to get better grades, lack of confidence in their own skills, a belief that material they download is > superior to their own, laziness, procrastination, dismissing the severity because everyone is doing > it, widespread availability and ease associated with cut and paste plagiarism (Mizikar, 2013). || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">8 Minutes || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> Lecture Content
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Reasons include a genuine lack of knowledge of what actually constitutes plagiarism an attempt
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Mini Lecture

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Part 1: Has the prevalence of online plagiarism increased? > with the Center for Academic Integrity (2005) found “cheating is…a significant problem in high school. Over 60% > [of students] admitted to some form of plagiarism. About half of all students admitted they had engaged in some > level of plagiarism using the Internet (Sisti, 3007).
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">From 2001 to 2005, through a series of large multicenter studies of more than 18,000 students, McCabe (2005)

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Part 2:How can you identify online plagiarism?

> content that is off topic, anachronisms, anomalies of diction and of style (Harris, 2012)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Look for the clues such as mixed citation styles, lack of references or quotations, unusual formatting,

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Part 3:How can you prevent or curtail online plagiarism? > to students that you are aware that plagiarism occurs, 3) Deal with plagiarism consistently when it occurs, > 4) Use assignments that don't lend themselves to plagiarism, i.e. personal reflection, oral presentations (Mizikar, 2013). || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">5 Minutes || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Participants will play one round of the Plagiarism Game developed by Lycoming College. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">This interactive game contains a series of scenarios they will be asked to respond T/F. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Scenarios include <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">5 Minutes || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Participants complete a graphic organizer in which they identify:
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">1) Make students are aware of what constitutes plagiarism, plagiarism policies and penalties, 2) Acknowledge
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">In-Class Activity Q/A
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Ginger can copy from an encyclopedia without citing the source because information is considered common knowledge.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Bridgette researches and takes notes in her own words. later, when tying her essay, she does not give credit to the author because they are not the authors exact words. Bridgette is plagiarizing her research. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Questions/Formative Assessment


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Section 1) A problem they encountered with plagiarism.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Section 2) Indicate a solution they administered.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Section 3) Write a new solutions to the original problem based on information from this session.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Instructor will circulate to discuss the responses with participants.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Sample Below:

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS DIAGRAM

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Resources
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 * 1) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">The link above has additional information about plagiarism, information literacy, and ethics (Boston, 2013)
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">The article below has 7 anti-plagiarism services you can use like Turnitin and Plagiarism Checker to reduce or stop academic dishonesty.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Discussion:
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Please select questions from the slideshow below as discussion starters with your colleagues when you return to class to <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">initiate a plan based on plagiarism in online learning environments covered in in this session..

Assignment:
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Next week review the school policy for academic integrity and develop or revise an informative handout to share with your students to insure awareness.

Assessment:
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">(1) Formative assessment measures: Problem/Solution graphic organizer completed in class. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">(2) Summative assessment measures: All participants will complete a final quiz compiled from all mini-sessions.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Take Away:
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