Busting plagiarism

Workshop

• Description: This workshop for the UP faculty examines the pedagogical issues involved in plagiarism and intellectual dishonesty. Faculty participants will learn to detect plagiarism with the aid of electronic tools and know the legal basis for busting plagiarism and intellectual dishonesty. This workshop will be streamed live to other UP constituent universities.
• 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
• Program

TIME	TOPIC	RESOURCE SPEAKER
2:00-2:45pm	Definitional and Legal Issues : Elements of plagiarism, examples from different domains	Vyva Aguirre Dean, School of Library and Information Studies
2:45-3:30pm	Pedagogical Prevention of Plagiarism : Steps teachers can do to help prevent plagiarism in class	Dina Ocampo Dean, College of Education
3:30-3:45pm	Break
3:45-4:30pm	Tools Available and Methodological Issues in Busting Plagiarism Use of certain tools to detect and substantiate instances of plagiarism	Cedric Festin Associate Professor, Computer Science
4:30-5:00pm	Open Forum / Demo

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. Cf. relevant provisions from Draft 2010 Code of Student Conduct for the University of the Philippines Diliman
• 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
• To Stop Cheats, Colleges Learn Their Trickery

Links

• Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL)

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