In the small piece of research I did here
(http://online.northumbria.ac.uk/LTA/media/docs/Conference%20Publication%202
002/AD.doc), 'wanting to get a better grade' and 'laziness or bad time
management' were given by students as the main reasons for plagiarism.
Students were rather less inclined than staff to look to reasons such as not
understanding how not to. A rather different perspective!
Alan
Alan Dordoy
Head of Learning and Teaching Support
Registrar's Department
Northumbria University
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 8ST
0191 227 4395
-----Original Message-----
From: Fiona Duggan [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 04 September 2003 14:49
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: database searching skills
Dear listmembers,
Welcome back.
In a recent email to the Plagiarism Advisory Service it was commented that
one of the main causes of student plagiarism related to students lack of
knowledge regarding how to research, in particular how to search for and
retrieve information from databases. The correspondent was based in the US,
but is this true of the UK also?
It was noted that information retrieval skills were not routinely taught on
US academic courses. As we are based in what was formerly a School of
Information Studies I would have to question that statement as it does not
tally with my experience, but perhaps my experience is not typical.
Any thoughts?
Regards
Fiona
Dr Fiona Duggan
Plagiarism Advisory Service Manager
Information Management Research Institute
Room 122 Lipman Building
Northumbria University
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 8ST
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Tel: 0191 243 7410
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