Ludy Goodson, Center for Excellence in Teaching

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Quick Fixes for Intellectual Integrity

• Ludy Goodson, Center for Excellence in Teaching
• Judi Repman, Leadership, Technology, and Human
  Development
• Jocelyn Poole, Dr. Sonya Shepherd, Zach. S.
  Henderson Library

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• http//academics.georgiasouthern.edu/cet/ludy_mer
  lot

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Questions

• What is your quick fix?
• How does your quick fix work? How well? False
  positives? False negatives?
• Any studies done about how well it reduces
  plagiarism?
• Or is it just hype, ease, or accountability-hand-o
  ff?
• And how much difference does assignment structure
  and renewal of assignments make?
• What approach is more effective? What can you do?
• To begina few other questions

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Student Context

• computers
• rapid access
• cut-and-paste
• whole papers
• excerpts
• fees
• stock assignments

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oftenmaybe

• 75...CAI (Center for Academic Integrity)
  Research, Duke University
• less (Chronicle of Higher Education)
• before college (American School Board Journal)

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definitions change reports

• McCabe KSU Study, Professor of Organization
  Management at Rutgers, sponsored by Center for
  Academic Integrity at Duke University, 1999 2003
  followup Study
• Plagiarize using Internet? 8-13
• Obtain from paper mill or web?4-7 (1999) , 8
  NC, 2 C (2003)Is this serious cheating? (2003)
  83-86
• A few sentences without footnotes? 36-45
  (1999), 8-33 Written (2003),Internet 6
  (2003)Is this serious cheating? (2003) 35-38

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why

• Lack of skills
• Confusion
• Careless note taking
• Cultural dispositions
• Panic, pressure
• Procrastination
• Schoolsucks.com download your workload

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why

• Parentspressure
• Librarianshelp find sites
• Facultyassignments
• Peerssocial, prestige

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how
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Plagiarizing Examples

• English
• Physical Geology
• Art History

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Plagiarizing Example 1-English

• Politics How does a particular novel -- say,
  Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale -- raise its
  political questions? And does it raise these
  questions effectively? For example, would you say
  that the novel's "reconstructed" style helps or
  hinders its political agenda? And what about the
  novel's ending?

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Plagiarizing Example 1-English

• Search Terms Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale
  politics

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Plagiarizing Example 1-English

• Google Search http//www.brothersjudd.com/index.
  cfm/fuseaction/reviews.detail/book_id/750/Handmaid
  's20T.htm

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Plagiarizing Example 1-English

• Mamma
• Yahoo
• Altavista
• Hotbot
• Askjeeves

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Search Example 2 GeologyThe purpose of this
paper is to investigate out how geologists answer
questions. You should choose such a question and
then research it. Many examples are given below
of questions you can use for your specific paper
topic. You can come up with your own, but you
must OK it with me first to make sure it is
workable or I will not accept it! (How do you
work out the detailed chemical composition of a
mineral?)Search Terms paper determine
chemical composition mineral
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detection-tool problems

• Unlawful gain
• Publicity for plagiarism
• Incomplete databases
• Instructor works
• False positives, negatives
• Conflicting interests

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problems

• Two online services that help professors check
  student papers for plagiarism -- PlagiServe.com
  and EduTie.com -- appear to have ties to Web
  sites that sell term papers to students.
  Chronicle of Higher Education, Information
  Technology, Tuesday, March 12, 2002,
  http//chronicle.com/free/2002/03/2002031201t.htm

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problems

• Students still can plagiarize

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Do threats work?

• Told their papers would be checked 10.7 -
  17.5 plagiarism
• Not told 17.2 plagiarism
• Plagiarism Prevention, Practice, and Policies,
  2004 conference James Douglas Beasley The
  Impact of Technology on Plagiarism Prevention and
  Detection http//www.powerresearcher.com/download
  /plagiarism_tech_impact.pdf
• Re Weinstein and Dobkin study

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How do you define plagiarism?
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definitions differvalues differ

• Is it plagiarism? http//www.doug-johnson.com/dou
  gwri/isit.html
• Instructors
• Librarians
• Parents
• Students

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How do you define intellectual integrity?...priori
ty? differences?
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How do your students know?
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Students need education
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Students need educationPlagiarism.org
http//www.plagiarism.org/faq.html (2002)What
really subverts plagiarism?needed guidance and
instructionwell-crafted, carefully sequenced,
and interesting assignmentsAre teachers part
of the solution or part of the problem? Toward
the Best in the Academy, Vol 15, No 1, 2003-2004
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What encourages intellectual integrity?
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what works

• Well-designed learning
• Clear, detailed directions
• Process focus, steps
• Change list of topics
• Value original thought
• Allow time
• Preventing Plagiarism with an Outcomes
  Approach http//www.eddept.wa.edu.au/cmis/eval/
  downloads/curiculum/pplagiarism.pdf and
  AntiPlagiarism Strategies for Research Papers
  http//www.virtualsalt.com/antiplag.htm

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what works

• Work with student on planning, ideas outline,
  note-taking
• Require recent and range of references
• See report on work done
• Ask questions about process What exactly do you
  mean here by dynamic equivalence?

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what works

• Assess planning, notes, and process
• Require annotated bibliography with notation
  about usefulness of the source
• Require metalearning essay at moment of
  collecting paper, have students write what they
  learned from the assignment and what problems
  did they face and how did they overcome

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what worksFour Reasons to be Happy about
Internet Plagiarism Teaching Perspectives (St.
Thomas University) 5 December 2002 1-5 Repr.
Teaching Options Pedagogiques 64 (University of
Ottawa) (August 2003) 3-5 repr. (abridged) as
Lets Hear it for Internet Plagiarism, Teaching
Learning Bridges 23 (University of
Saskatchewan) (November 2003), 2-5
http//www.stu.ca/hunt/4reasons.htm and more...
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Structured Assignment 1

• English 102, Writing Research PapersDr.
  Marylynne Diggs Permission to use received
  1/26/05 from mdiggs_at_clark.edu.
  http//web.clark.edu/diggma/102/102home.htm or
  http//thor.clark.edu/diggma/102/102home.htm

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Structured Assignment 2

• Course Paper Assignment,Sociological Research
  Methods IIDr. James Daniel LeePermission to use
  received by email on 1/26/05 from
  jdlee_at_jaguar1.usouthal.eduhttp//www.southalabama
  .edu/sociologyandanthropology/lee/website/CPA.pdf

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Structured Assignment 3

• GLG310 Structural Geology 2004 Information about
  Research Assignment Dr. Ramon ArrowsmithDr.
  Steve Reynolds Permission to use received by
  email on 1/26/05 from ramon.arrowsmith_at_asu.edu
  with cc to sreynolds_at_asu.edu http//activetecto
  nics.la.asu.edu/Structural_Geology/Labs/FinalProje
  ct/ with links to general project outline and to
  writing tips

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Structured Assignment 4

• EAS 100 Planet EarthDept. of Earth Atmospheric
  SciencesTerm Paper AssignmentProf. Lawrence W.
  BrailePermission to use received by email on
  1/27/05 from braile_at_purdue.edu.
  http//www.eas.purdue.edu/braile/eas100/term.do
  c orhttp//www.eas.purdue.edu/7Ebraile/eas100/t
  erm.pdf or http//www.eas.purdue.edu/braile/eas1
  00/term.pdf
• Prof. Braile wrote  On the plagiarism issue, I
  found a few years ago that there were several
  copy and paste term papers turned in. Now I have
  a section in the assignment and I go over this
  issue in class and there are many fewer
  plagiarized papers.

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tipsresources

• Tips to help students Using the Works of
  Others http//library.umf.maine.edu/plagiarism/va
  lid.html
• Presentation and resources http//academics.georg
  iasouthern.edu/cet/ludy_merlot/

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What else would help?
5 min. discussion