Why online tutorials

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Abstract This interactive, online tutorial
teaches students about plagiarism, paraphrasing,
and citing sources. It includes a pre-quiz,
assessing what students already know, and graded
quiz at the end, testing students understanding
of plagiarism and their ability to avoid it.
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• Benefits of Using Online Tutorials
• Students learn information competence skills at
  their own pace, outside of physical classrooms
  and traditional class time.
• Students gain a common foundation of knowledge
  before the library instruction session.
• Librarians can make more of the one-hour,
  one-shot library instruction session.

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• Librarys Role in Plagiarism InstructionWhy
  should the library teach students about
  plagiarism?
• Demonstrates the librarys commitment to
  important campus issues.
• Campus communities frequently look to librarians
  to provide this instruction.
• ACRLs Information Literacy Competency Standards
  for Higher Education call for student
  demonstration in the legal and ethical use of
  information.

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• Collaboration with Classroom Faculty
• "Last spring, in order to address the issue of
  plagiarism, we submitted course assignments to
  turnitin.com and were astounded to discover that
  between sixty-three to seventy-five percent of
  our students plagiarized. This tutorial has
  contributed significantly to help meet the
  formidable challenge of plagiarism."
• --Debra Caires-Mullens, Coordinator of CS100w
  and June Sheldon, CS100w Instructor

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• The Accidental Plagiarist
• Students are frequently guilty of accidental
  plagiarism
• Not Citing Sources
• Lack understanding of how to properly paraphrase
  original passages

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• Tutorial Highlights
• Pre-Test and Graded Quiz
• Plagiarism Definitions and Examples
• Academic Dishonesty Policies
• Plagiarism Detection Services
• Paraphrasing
• Importance of Citing Sources
• Citation Styles

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• Analysis of Quiz Results
• Results show no measurable difference between
  lower and upper division students.
• Students average overall quiz score is near 80

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• Quiz Results Show that Students
• Recognize blatant examples of plagiarism.
• Know what to include in a citation and what types
  of resources need to be cited.
• Understand academic dishonesty issues and school
  policy.

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• Quiz Results Show that Students
• Have difficultly reading an original passage and
  identifying what is wrong with a paraphrase.
• Have difficulty understanding that paraphrasing
  is NOT merely a rewriting of the original passage
  but involves synthesizing the original passage
  and writing it in their own words.

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• Next Steps
• Review the quiz and content based on ongoing
  analysis.
• Modify the tutorial based on faculty feedback and
  student quiz results.
• Build in more interactivity so that students can
  practice their paraphrasing skills.
• Collaborate with classroom faculty on
  paraphrasing and citation assignments.

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Link to Plagiarism The Crime of Intellectual
Kidnapping http//tutorials.sjlibrary.org/plagiari
sm/index.htm