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February 26, 2007Combating Student Plagiarism Program @ UNI
Techniques for Combating Student Plagiarism Program
The University Community is invited to attend a plagiarism program presented by Lynn Lampert, Coordinator of Information Literacy and Instruction at California State University – Northridge.
Date: Friday, April 6, 2007
Location: Room 109 – Center for Multicultural Education
Open Invitation: UNI faculty, staff, and students
No registration is required. There are two sessions, morning and afternoon. A list of learning outcomes for this workshop is provided.
Morning Session 9:00 a.m – 11: 30 a.m.
This session will explore how the library can become more proactive in working
with teaching faculty to prevent student plagiarism.
Afternoon Session 1:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
This session will cover the range of practical classroom techniques available
to minimize student plagiarism.
- Professor Sue Joseph Joslyn will speak about and address questions
concerning the software, TurnItIn, at both sessions.
- Officers and representatives of the University of Northern Iowa’s
Student Government will be asked to provide the student perspective on plagiarism
and
its relationship to credible student scholarship.
- Ms. Lampert is preparing a survey that will be distributed to our Student Government representatives. The results will be incorporated into her talk.
Funding provided in part by:
UNI Faculty Senate, College of Natural Sciences, College of Business Administration,
College of Social & Behavioral Sciences, Graduate College, and Rod Library
Information about Lynn Lampert, Plagiarism Program presenter:
Ms. Lampert, a professional librarian, has specialized in the development and implementation of information literacy programs and instruction strategies since 1998. She has published articles focusing on issues of academic librarianship and student plagiarism. She is currently working on two books:
- Combating Student Plagiarism: An Academic Librarian’s Guide, to
be published by Chandos Publishing (Oxford Limited)
- Proven Strategies for Building an Information Literacy Program, co-edited with Dr. Susan C. Curzon (forthcoming with Neal-Schuman, 2007)
Ms. Lampert frequently presents on critical issues in information literacy practices and library instructional programming at both the national and regional level.
Learning outcomes for the Plagiarism Program:
- Participants will understand that plagiarism is not a student problem only, but that it has been seen increasingly in the works of academic administrators, professors, and other professional scholars. This presents a problem of credibility when faculty work with students to eliminate plagiarism as a temptation or a solution
- Participants will be able to identify sources of plagiarism, e.g. paper-mills, previously utilized papers, free-Internet references, library-provided commercial databases
- Participants will be able to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the commercial plagiarism detection software TurnItIn.com used at UNI, e.g. what sources of plagiarism TurnItIn.com will detect, what sources it might miss, and occasions on which TurnItIn.com will produce “false positives.”
- Participants will be able to use a number of "best practices" for detecting material plagiarized from
- the free-Internet
- commercial databases ... that might
NOT be detected by TurnItIn.com (e.g. phrase searching on Google, full text phrase searching within commercial databases)...
- the free-Internet
- Participants will be able to identify a number of "best practices" that deter plagiarism from taking place in the first place (e.g. honor codes, well-designed and frequently updated assignments, student-faculty plagiarism discussions, assistance from Rod Library in proper use of citations)
- Participants will understand the value of library instructional programming in attacking plagiarism at its source
* Image, copyright Robert Neubecker, used with permission *
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