kevin brace – he co-ordinator rsc west midlands

Reviewing key anti-plagiarism resources

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Kevin Brace – HE Co-ordinator

RSC West Midlands

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• Why?• Paper Mills• JISC PAS • Turnitin : What & How• Citation tools• Online resources/references• Harvard referencing tools/guides• LSC learning objects

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– The prevention, detection and punishment of plagiarism consumes a lot of energy in most higher education institutions.

– However, it is perhaps worth starting by saying that good practice in dealing with plagiarism is also good practice in terms of learning, teaching and assessment more generally.

– Setting the same assessment questions year after year, allowing for little individual input and resorting to unseen examinations are not conducive to real deep learning but, unfortunately, characterise many students' experiences.

Ref: http://www.physsci.heacademy.ac.uk/publications/briefingpaper/plag6.pdf

The rationale


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Paper mills

The UK’s largest essay bank www.coursework4you.co.uk is providing students with an easy way to make money. The Company is offering cash in exchange of students' essays, term papers, courseworks and dissertations. Never before have students had an option to sell their papers for CASH and get it IMMEDIATELY.

In addition to that, the whole process is really easy. The website asks you to fill in a simple form, select the payment plan and upload the papers you'd like to sell. It takes less than a minute! No hassle at all!

The Company is obviously quite strict with quality and plagiarism: every paper is checked and plagiarised papers will be declined. But what else would you expect if they are paying CASH?!

Ref: http://www.prbuzz.com/

• http://www.jiscpas.ac.uk/apppage.cgi?USERPAGE=6250

• http://www.coursework4you.co.uk/

Paper Mills


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JISC PAS

• The Plagiarism Advisory Service provides generic advice and guidance on all aspects of plagiarism prevention and detection to institutions, academics and students.

http://www.jiscpas.ac.uk/

• Linked with Northumbria learning (linked to the University), a company who operate the central UK database that is used to check for plagiarism and collusion. This UK franchise is called Turnitin.

• http://turnitin.com • http://www.submit.ac.uk • http://www.plagiarism.org/

National initiatives


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Turnitin: what is it?National initiatives

A sample “originality report” looks like this >>>

• See a online demo from the student perspective

http://www.submit.ac.uk/static_jisc/ac_uk_demo.html

• Sheffield has a guide here >>


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Turnitin Integration with VLE : one method of operationNational initiatives

Module1Ass 01

Login + User ID

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1. VLE linked to Turnitin

2. Tutor sets up assignment drop box parameters

3. Student logs in & uploads assignment / nothing else

4. Assignment gets checked by Turnitin & report generated

5. Tutor checks originality report

VLE

Turnitin

VLE’s

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Free checking tools: “googled”checking

http://www.learningobjectivity.com/moodle/course/view.php?id=23


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Document it: is a suite of tools for recording and managing citations• MS Word plug-in >> DemoReferencing


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• Style Vault: is a free tool for recording and managing citations

• Coventry Uni’ CETL ( CAW centre for academic writing)

View >> Demo

Referencing


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Harvard referencing resources (online):

• http://library.northampton.ac.uk/liberation/ref/choose.php

• http://home.ched.coventry.ac.uk/caw/harvard/downloads.htm

• http://www.jiscpas.ac.uk/referencing.php

• http://www.cte.usf.edu/plagiarism/plag.html

• http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/resources.asp (top search box)

• http://www.usq.edu.au/library/Breeze/Fac_Business/Harvard_Referencing_A_Brief_Guide/

Referencing


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• Harvard referencing resources (Learning Skills Council):

• Tameside– Web quiz– Drag & drop Word

• Weymouth– Word guide– 5 web quizzes

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• The above resources we given away free in a LSC publication 2007:

• E-effective teaching. Transforming training through e-elearning– Available from http://www.lsneducation.org.uk/

– ISBN 1-84572-290-6

Referencing


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• Academic writing

http://www.thinkingwriting.qmul.ac.uk/

• “Designing out plagiarism” resourceshttp://www.jiscpas.ac.uk/designingout.php

• 47 page document of current issues and resourceshttp://www.jiscpas.ac.uk/documents/Roadmap_v4r4b.pdf

• Video case studieshttp://www.jiscpas.ac.uk/plagiarismvideos.php

• FE perspective : video

http://www.jiscpas.ac.uk/video/SandraPeacock2.wmv

Resources


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• JISC PAS case studies of using Turnitin

•HE in FE •http://www.jiscpas.ac.uk/documents/HE%20in%20FE%20Case%20Studiesreport.pdf

• FE perspective : video

SandraPeacock2.wmv

Video available from herehttp://www.jiscpas.ac.uk/plagiarismvideos.php

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