Busting plagiarism

Workshop

• description: faculty workshop on intellectual dishonesty
• objectives: learn to detect plagiarism with the aid of electronic tools; start a nuanced conversation about intellectual dishonesty and plagiarism
• methodology: panel discussion from different fields, use of detection tools
• workshop schedule and venue: Monday, 27 Sept 2010, 2-5pm, DILC
• workshop participants: UPD faculty
• workshop program: panel discussions (pedagogical, legal, computational issues) - 2-3:30pm (1.5 hrs); skills acquisition - 3:30-5:00pm (1.5 hrs)

Related Issues

1. Collaboration. "Real world" jobs require people to work together. Shouldn't students start collaborating in school? How or when does collaboration become "cheating"?
2. Knowledge and skills assessment. Which methods of assessment discourage cheating? Are exams, term papers effective in the assessment of students' knowledge?
3. Intellectual dishonesty and licenses (copyright, Creative Commons, open source)
4. courses of action at various levels to address plagiarism and intellectual dishonesty: department, college, university, court

Suggested Readings

• 12.1. "Student Conduct and Discipline," UP Diliman Faculty Manual
• Why Computer Science Students Cheat
• Head and Eisenberg, "How today's college students use Wikipedia for course-related research"
• Jason Johnson, "Cut-and-Paste Is a Skill, Too," Washington Post, 25 March 2007
• Jonathan Lethem, "The ecstasy of influence: A plagiarism," Harper's, Feb 2007
• The Open University's approach to plagiarism
• How Plagiarism Software Found a New Shakespeare Play

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