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Plagiarism Tutorial

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Reviewed:: May 1, 2019 by English

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Overview:

A brief, 10-question plagiarism tutorial designed to challenge students and highlight the less obvious cases in which sources might be used incorrectly or irresponsibly. Provides immediate feedback and allows the learner to submit results to any email address.

Type of Material:

drill and practice
tutorial

Recommended Uses:

This could be assigned as homework either for a traditional or online course.

Technical Requirements:

Computer and Internet

Identify Major Learning Goals:

Using examples from various types of sources, students will be able to correctly identify when source material has been correctly incorporated and cited. Students will also be asked to list three best practices for using sources responsibly.

Target Student Population:

High School, College General Ed, College Lower Division, College Upper Division

Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:

Students should have previously completed a lesson in recogognizing and avoiding plagiarism as this is primarily a self-check exercise.

Content Quality

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Strengths:

The presentation is easy to use, incorporates short passages, and offers immediate feedback to yes/no questions. Feedback is given in casual, personal manner when students answer incorrectly, they are given an explanation of why their answer was incorrect. Questions cover paraphrasing, summarizing, quoting, and using general knowledge matierals.

Concerns:

Feedback is very brief and does not link to longer explanations.

Contains only 10 questions are always the same and in a yes/no format. It can't be used as an assessment tool as students can easily retake until they score a perfect score.

Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool

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Strengths:

This tool easy to use for a student to self-check their most basic understanding of summary and paraphrase.

Concerns:

The MLA citation formatting is out of date and should be updated.

There are no links to fuller explanations of missed questions.

Contains only 10 questions which are the same each time I took the assessment. It can't be used as an assessment tool as students can easily retake until they score a perfect score.

Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty

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Strengths:

Self explanatory question and answer process.

Allows students to email results to their instructor.

Directions for navigation are very clear.

Other Issues and Comments:: The material is suitable for begining researchers in both high school and early college.
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