Hi Hannah,
This year I spent some practical time on plagiarism with new Bioscience
undergraduates.
I did this simple exercise first;
http://www.le.ac.uk/teaching/teaching/pdf/willmott.pdf
I took them through the registration and submission of deliberately
plagiarised work to submit.ac.uk to demonstrate how tools like this can
quickly pick up C&P material from the web and each other. I stressed how we
were keen to protect their academic integrity and were not accusing them of
bad habits. I DID NOT use the service to check any of the summative academic
work, I just let it been seen how I could do so if I wished. All were
impressed with the pretty colours and links to the source websites which
appeared in a few minutes in my projected 'tutor-window' at the front of the
practical.
I also experimented with using student mobile phones to answer MCQ questions
within the lecture: Students build a response string which I then parse into
separate answers on a website (ASP.NET) to discuss the responses. This means
I have only to refund one text message. Anyway, in one question I asked;
"Now that you understand more about plagiarism, have you committed it
accidentally or deliberately in the past" followed by a number of likelyhood
options - the resultant bar chart demonstrated to all why we are keeping a
very close eye on this as the sinless were a significant minority.
Regards,
Terry McAndrew MSc BA PGCLTHE
C&IT Manager
LTSN Centre for Bioscience
Room 8.49n
Worsley Medical and Dental building
University of Leeds
LS2 9JT
Tel: +44 (0) 113 343 3593
Fax: +44 (0) 113 343 5894
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: hannah d. [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 31 December 2003 16:39
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> Subject: preventative education
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm interested in ways in which we educate our students about
> plagiarism: how we go about making it clear to them what
> forms of citation is acceptable, how to quote, and so on.
>
> In particular, i've seen some interesting use of plagiarism
> _detection_ systems being used to highlight text - mock
> essays with some plagiarised portions and some correctly
> cited portions - and the subsequent report being used as an
> aid to discussion of the issues.
>
> Do people on this list have any experiences, tips or tricks
> they might like to share about ways of educating students to
> prevent plagiarism in the first place? Do you have a handout
> you give to students highlighting what plagiarism is? I have
> seen much which details what the penalties are, but less
> which deals with the nature of plagiarism in a
> straightforward and understandable manner, and would be
> interested in hearing how people at other institutions tackle
> this problem.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> .h
>
> --
> hannah dee.
> vision group, school of computing, university of leeds.
>
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