Post 347 How to Avoid Plagiarism

How to Avoid Plagiarism

Forums

Put the forums into Turnitin.

Cut and Paste all forums.

Put into Word

Put Word into Turnitin

Then look at Originality report to see Plagiarism incidents.

Quizzes

Cut and Paste quizzes into Turnitin

Put on Word

Put Word into Turnitin

Then look at report to see Plag. incidents.

Assignments

Download assignment onto computer.

Upload assignment into Turnitin

Look at report for plag. incidents.

Redesign assignments

Make sure your assignment shows students have written multiple drafts.

You go over those drafts with the students.

You make sure your feedback is in the corrected drafts.

Students can use forum post as references so you know that draft came from your class.

Redesign assignments so that students have to work together on the assignments to promote collaborative teamwork.

Peer Review

Teacher should participate in Peer Review forum to give feedback on multiple drafts so you know it is not plagiarized from another source.

Have students give each other feedback on multiple drafts so you know it is not plagiarized.

Work with student one on one

When you have office hours, go over the student paper one on one the student errors so you know it is not plagiarized.

Get to know student text

If a student has barely coherent sentences in his forum responses and then suddenly he writes perfectly, then you know he has plagiarized or has had somebody help him on his paper.

In an online writing class, it is easy to spot student writing text since you read his posts all the time.

In face to face class, give writing exercises in class and see how students write in class. If student writes in class with barely coherent sentences and suddenly turns in perfect papers, you know he has had somebody help him or somebody wrote the paper for him.

If you suspect student has plagiarized, then you can ask student questions about topic of his paper and if student cannot answer, then you know he has plagiarized.

Accidental plagiarism

Most cases of plagiarism is accidental because students are not familiar with APA or MLA formatting.

Most of the time, it is a matter of you teaching him her how to format paper and to teach him the difference between direct and paraphrase quote.

You also teach him how much to quote and how much not to quote so paper is not all quotes.

I will go over more about this topic in next blog post.

Explain Originality Report to Student

Teach student where Turnitin is located.

Teach student what Turnitin score means.

Teach student how to read report.