Post 22: !0 Ways To Fight Plagiarism

10 Ways to fight Plagiarism

 

 

November 29, 2014

With the advent of the internet, it has become easier and easier for students to just cut and paste websites into their papers without giving credit.

1.  Teach students how to properly format their paper in MLA.

2.  Make students aware of the penalties for plagiariism such as a failed paper or expulsion from school.

3.  Make sure each teacher who is teaching a particular class do not all have the same syllabus.  In other words, Mr. Smith's ENGL 101 class needs to have different quizzes  or literature exercises than Miss Jones ENGL 101 class.  The more unique your class syllabi are from teacher to teacher, the harder it is to plagiarize.

4. Encourage each faculty member whether adjunct or full time to come up with their own unique assignments.

5. Make sure that the student actually did the work by looking at many rough drafts of the paper.

6. Be wary if a student who is hardly literate in class or in the forums suddenly writes a flawless paper.

7. Run the paper through Turnitin or another plagiarism checker on a regular basis.

8. Take off points if the student over quotes or if his Turnitin score is too high. This means the student's paper has too many direct quotes and not enough original thought.

9. Subscribe to a cheat site like Course Hero and take a look to see if any of your students have uploaded quiz answers to the site.

10.  Just be vigilant for in this internet world, plagiarism is just a cut and paste away :)