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