Identifying and preventing plagiarism: issues for HE tutors in FE Colleges

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    1. Plagiarism – What is all the fuss about? Dr Fiona Duggan Head of Advice and Guidance
    2. Plagiarism
      • What is it?
      • Is it a new problem?
      • How do we address the problem?
    3. What is plagiarism?
      • Theft?
      • Disease?
      • War?
      • Other?
    4. Problem
      • One in six students admit to copying from friends and one in ten confesses to looking for essays online (Shepherd,J. (2006) 1 in 6 admits to cheating. THES 16/03/06 p.1)
      • Lecturer plagiarised student’s work (Baty, P. (2004) Lecturer plagiarised student’s work. THES. 17/09/04 p6)
      • Leading academics argued that more researchers were resorting to scientific fraud because of intense competition to publish research results (McCall, B (2006) Push to publish leads to fraudTHES 24/03/06 p11)
    5. Defining plagiarism
      • Need a common understanding
      • Need consistency in application
      • Need to practice what we preach!
    6. A new problem?
      • Shakespeare
      • Martin Luther King
      • Princess Michael of Kent
    7. Reasons
      • Concept of ownership not yet developed
      • Oral tradition of sharing resources
      • Cryptomnesia
    8. Current issues
      • Increasing consumerism in attitudes towards education
      • Students adopting a more strategic approach to their studies
      • Diverse nature of student population
    9. And
      • Increased access to electronic resources
      • Widespread confusion about referencing and citation
      • Changing attitudes in popular culture e.g. sampling in music, file-sharing
    10. And
      • ‘Bespoke’ essay writing services
      • Sale of student work on e-commerce sites
      • ‘Contract cheating’ sites (Clarke, R & Lancaster, T (2007) Eliminating the successor to plagiarism? Identifying the usage of contract cheating sites in Duggan, F (Ed.) 2 nd International Plagiarism Conference Proceedings, Northumbria Learning Press)
    11. HE in FE issues
      • Lack of up-to-date knowledge when citing electronic resources
      • Lack of confidence when teaching academic writing
      • Inadequate knowledge of cultural issues relating to plagiarism
      • Duggan, F. & Mazey, R (n.d.) Perceptions of plagiarism: An HE in FE case study Available at: http://www.jiscpas.ac.uk [Accessed 26/03/07]
    12. Responses
      • Use of detection software
      • Revision of institutional policies and procedures
      • Review of assessments
      • Increased guidance for students
    13. Referencing and attribution
      • An out-dated practice?
      • Isn’t everything freely available?
      • Negative associations
    14. However
      • Probably more relevant than ever in the current knowledge-based society
      • One of the building blocks of good academic practice
      • A positive action rather than a negative one
    15. So
      • Need to provide students with opportunities to practice
      • Need to provide an example in our own practice
      • Stress the positive aspects of attribution
      • “ Quite simply, those who can write well have the potential to achieve, both in their coursework and their exams. They are at an enormous advantage.”
      • Ahmad, R & McMahon, K (2006) The benefits of good writing: or why does it matter that students write well? In Davies, S. Swinburne, D & Williams, G (Eds.) Writing Matters. Royal Literary Fund

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