Busting plagiarism

Workshop

• Description: faculty workshop on intellectual dishonesty
• Objectives: examine the pedagogical issues involved in plagiarism and intellectual dishonesty; learn to detect plagiarism with the aid of electronic tools; know the legal basis for busting plagiarism and intellectual dishonesty.
• 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
• Topics

1. Definitional and Legal Issues (45 mins) - elements of plagiarism, examples from different domains
2. Pedagogical Prevention of Plagiarism (45 mins) - steps teachers can do to help prevent plagiarism in class
3. Tools Available and Methodological Issues in Busting Plagiarism (45 mins) - use of certain tools to detect and substantiate instances of plagiarism

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). Certain licenses encourage "copying" but certainly not cheating.
4. What courses of action at various levels (department, college, university) are due to address plagiarism and intellectual dishonesty?

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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