¶ … prevent plagiarism were not mentioned? How can you utilize the university's plagiarism and citation resources moving forward to uphold academic integrity?
The most helpful resources that could help prevent plagiarism that were not mentioned might be explicit examples of actual student papers that demonstrate each one of the different forms of academic plagiarism. There is probably no need to provide samples of deliberate plagiarism, simply because everybody knows what it means to copy and paste text without any acknowledgment. However, other forms of plagiarism could easily happen without the student intending to violate the school's academic policy.
For example, it might not be clear from the materials provided exactly how to properly reference source material within a long paragraph containing several different points. Are we supposed to just use one citation at the end of the paragraph or a citation after every sentence in that paragraph? It might be very difficult for students to determine exactly what the difference is between paraphrasing another author's analysis in a paragraph of original writing and paraphrasing several different points made by another author in his original paragraph that the student...
In my opinion, this is the type of plagiarism that is (still) most likely to occur because most students genuinely believe that as long as they reword whatever research material they find, they do not have to provide a citation referencing the original source.
Another example that was not discussed is where a student just composes a point that is his original idea but inserts a citation because the idea requires one but where the idea did not actually come from the source referenced in the citation. In my opinion, it is one thing to read and discuss each one of these different kinds of plagiarism; but it might be much more vivid and helpful to have an actual example of what it looks like to the professor when the professor encounters it in a…
