Monday, May 13, 2013

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References Davis, L. (2011). Arresting Students Plagiarism: Are We Investigators or Educators? Business Communication Quarterly, 74(11), 160-163. This article discusses ways to manage plagiarism. Teachers should communicate with students the consequences of plagiarism and it should appear in the class syllabus. Having students turn in assignments to a plagiarism detection program will help lessen the possible plagiarism infractions. The article offered tips to prevent plagiarism such as, creating unique assignments, article writing, and teaching students the proper way to cite source. Hall, S. E. (2011). Is it Happening? How to avoid the Deleterious effects of Plagiarism and Cheating in your Courses. Business Communication Quarterly, 74(2), 179-182. The article discusses preventive and consequences of plagiarism. Make sure students are aware of the proper techniques to cite information. The article also explains that sharing work is also considered plagiarism. Hansen, B., Stith, D., & Tesdell, L. S. (2011). Plagiarism: What's the Big Deal? Business Communication Quarterly, 74(2), 188-191. This article focuses on the meaning of plagiarism and how to prevent it from happening. Some suggestions to prevent plagiarism is to create unique assignments, have students create a portfolio and allowing plenty of time for assignments to be worked on during class. Insley, R. (2011). Managing Plagiarism:A Preventative Approach. Business Communication Quarterly, 74(2), 183-187. The article explains common reasons that plagiarism occurs. It often happens for the following reasons: it’s done unknowingly, student don’t know the proper way to cite sources, waiting until the last minute to complete assignments,. It also explains ways to prevent plagiarism such as, having class discussions, turning a rough draft to be review before submitting the final paper. It briefly discusses consequences such as receiving a zero the assignment. Ma, H., Yong Lu, E., Turner, S., & Wan, G. (2007). An Empirical Investigation of Digital Cheating and Plagiarism Among Middle School Students. American Secondary Education, 35(2), 69-82. The article focuses on Middle School students and their reasons for digital cheating and plagiarism. The Internet has made digital cheating and plagiarism easier for students. The author conducted research at various types of middles schools. Through their studies the authors discovered that students were cheating because their peers were doing it, the lack of punishment, pressure to achieve, and students did not understand the concept of plagiarism. The study revealed that students knew very little about plagiarism. Singh, H., & Bennington, A. J. (2012). Faculty on the Frontline: Predicting Faculty Intentions to Address College Student Plagiarism. Academy of Educational Leadership Journal, 16(4), 115-128. This article focuses on the faculty beliefs on handling plagiarism. The study showed that most teachers think its important for students to cite their work. Over 90 percent of the teachers used in this study believed that students should be punished for intentional plagiarism. Over half of the teachers think that students may plagiarize unintentionally and that contributes to mix responses on punishment.

9 comments:

  1. Your video is private so unless you invite each of us, individually, to watch it, we can't see it.

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  2. Yes, Alicia. Please go to your privacy settings and make your video available. We would all like to see your work!

    Tim.

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  3. Hi Alicia, I just checked and your video link is still private. The easiest option to make it available to the class is to make it public.

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  4. Sorry, I have changed the setting.

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  5. Alicia,
    Thank you for sharing a topic that is important to all educational settings, but especially the distance education setting. from a content standpoint, I enjoyed your information and found it valid and important. From a video standpoint, it would have been a little more interesting with some graphics or moving animation to keep the watchers' attention. I am not sure if you are like me in the fact that this was the first video I have ever made, but it took me a lot of playing around and experimenting to get those attributes in my video. However, I thought your information was superb and touched on a very important topic.

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  6. I like the fact that I can hear your voice clearly. Your video is clear and easy to watch. Also, your information is good and in depth about a hot topic.

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  7. Alicia:

    Nice job. As John mentioned, your sound of your voice and the the video are clear and the information is good (not plagiarizing here!). This is of course our debut in video production and I would qualify your performance as outstanding in this regard. Your mastery of the subject matter is clearly articulated. Nevertheless, I think that adding obvious visual transition to introduce new segments of the presentation would more deeply capture the attention of those watching.

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  8. Plagiarism is a hot topic in the educational field. I too just recently learned that you can plagiarize yourself. I thought the video had great information. I had some ideas if you ever did a video again. Maybe add footage of students actually working on a research project or show examples of how to cite resources correctly. Great job!

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  9. As an example for your 6th graders, have you ever tried to have them read their papers out loud but have one of them read another's paper while acting like it's theirs (or some variation of that). And then have the student that originally wrote the paper discuss how they felt finding out that someone else copied all their work?

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