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Reducing the Risk of Plagiarism Applying the research to our courses for the greatest impact Introductions Sharon Morris , Sheridan Libraries Director of the Regional Libraries Chaired a team that created an interactive module to educate

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Reducing the Risk of Plagiarism

Applying the research to our courses for the greatest impact

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Introductions

Sharon Morris , Sheridan Libraries Director of the Regional Libraries Chaired a team that created an interactive module to educate students and build skills to avoid plagiarism

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Objectives

  • 1. Check your definition of plagiarism - does it

capture the nuances, specific activities that constitute plagiarism

  • 2. Analyze why students plagiarize
  • 3. Determine methods of avoiding plagiarism in your

classroom

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JHU Avoiding Plagiarism Course

  • Self-paced modules on MyLearning
  • Students take it at their own pace
  • Assesses their knowledge & provides

some practice

  • Students receive a certificate they

can send to their instructor Over

7,000

students completed the module

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Defining Plagiarism

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“No matter how clear a definition of plagiarism might appear, it is not a universally understood or accepted concept in academia.” (Yeo, 2007)

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Plagiarism is defined as taking for your own use the words, ideas, concepts or data of someone else without giving proper credit.

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A student was told he committed plagiarism. Shocked, he argued, “I rewrote a few paragraphs in my own words. I made sure to use synonyms, dropped extraneous words, used a different tense and worked hard to rewrite the paragraph - these are my words so I didn’t think I needed a citation.” How does this connect with our definition of plagiarism? What is the student missing? What would you add to or emphasize in the definition to better explain it to your students?

Example Scenario: Extending the Definition

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Extending The Definition Plagiarism is defined as taking for your own use the words, ideas, concepts or data of someone else without giving proper credit. Emphasize Rewriting an idea requires a citation (paraphrasing/summarizing)

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  • 1. Turn to your yellow handout to find the scenarios
  • 2. Read through the scenarios and jot down your thoughts
  • 3. Turn to a partner. Discuss how you might extend the basic

definition of plagiarism to work with your expectations and better explain it to your students.

Explore the Scenarios to Extend the Definition

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Grow Our Definition

Share out some of the ways you and your partner expanded the definition.

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Extended Definitions

Plagiarism includes:

  • Accidental or unintentional plagiarism
  • Rewriting an idea (paraphrasing/summarizing) without credit
  • Using ideas from the Internet or journal without credit
  • Collaborating with others without permission
  • Using large portions of others’ work without citing
  • Reusing a paper (unless you get permission)

Notes

  • “General” or “common” knowledge does not need to be cited.
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Self-Plagiarism

  • TFSCALF. "Plagiarism?" Bitstrips. Retrieved from

http://plagiarism-tutorial.weebly.com/

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School’s Academic Integrity Policy

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Analyze Why Students Plagiarize

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Motivations for Plagiarism

Student take an “easy” path and plagiarize Students may not know what plagiarism is Student stress leads to ethics erosion

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Determine Methods of Avoiding Plagiarism

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Help Students Learn More

  • JHU Avoiding Plagiarism Module
  • Explicit course expectations
  • School policy
  • A tutor or writing center
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Make It Harder to Plagiarize

According to Carol & Appleton (2001):

  • “Modify the assessment each term”
  • Strengthen learning outcomes
  • “Design in assessment with multiple

solutions” or one that tracks individual contributions

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Reduce the Stress & Keep the Learning

  • Break down big assessments into

smaller parts

  • Plan assessment timing with others
  • Design the course with varied

assessment types

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Find Plagiarism When It Happens Take preventative measures but also monitor for plagiarism violations. SafeAssign can help alert you to when it happens.

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  • 1. Turn to your handout to find the list of preventative ways to

strengthen your course against the risk of plagiarism

  • 2. Check off the ones you are interested in
  • 3. Pick 3 you can implement

Pick What Works for You

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Resources

  • JHU Plagiarism Module
  • EP Policy Link
  • Ideas for your class
  • Contact us at smorris@jhu.edu
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Works Cited

Bretag, T. (2013). Challenges in Addressing Plagiarism in Education. PLoS Medicine, 10(12), e1001574. http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001574 Carroll, J., & Appleton, J. (2001). A Good Practice Guide. JISC report

  • TFSCALF. "Plagiarism?" Bitstrips. Retrieved from http://plagiarism-tutorial.weebly.com/

Yeo, S. (2007). First-year university science and engineering students’ understanding of plagiarism. Higher Education Research & Development, 26:2, 199-216, DOI: 10.1080/07294360701310813

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Questions

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Johns Hopkins Engineering SafeAssign

Fall 2017 Faculty Meeting October 17, 2017

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What is SafeAssign?

§ SafeAssign is a plagiarism prevention tool used to promote

  • riginality by detecting unoriginal content in student papers.

§ Originality reports generated for all submissions.

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How does SafeAssign Work?

§ Assignments are created in Blackboard course sites. § Students submit papers using the assignment tool. § Papers are checked against previously submitted papers, the

Internet, ProQuest Informational databases, and global databases.

§ Originality reports are generated for instructor review within

24 hours of submission.

§ Currently, most FA17 assignments are set up with SafeAssign

enabled.

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How Do You Use SafeAssign?

§ Use SafeAssign in Your Assignments

1. Access a content area, click on the Assessments button and select Assignment. 2. On the Create Assignment page, expand Submission Details section. 3. Select “Check submissions for plagiarism using SafeAssign”. 4. Optionally, select one or both options for students to see reports and exclude submissions into database. 5. Complete assignment page set up and make available to students.

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Setting Up SafeAssign?

§ Create and assignment in the usual manner

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Originality Reports

§ Provides a percentage for matched content. § Highlight matches and what they are matched to. § Up to the instructor to interpret results and act

accordingly.

  • *Scores below 15 percent: These papers typically include some quotes and few common

phrases or blocks of text that match other documents with no evidence of plagiarism.

  • *Scores between 15 percent and 40 percent: These papers include extensive quoted or

paraphrased material, or they include plagiarism.

  • *Scores over 40 percent: A very high probability exists that text in these papers was copied from
  • ther sources.

*Blackboard recommendations

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Finding Originality Reports

§ Course Tools - SafeAssign

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Originality Reports Student List

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SafeAssign Through the Grade Center

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Originality Reports

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Questions or Comments

Questions or Comments