Notes from our open discussion
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nConnect assignments to current media and publications
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nTie paper topics to class sessions
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nOften the plagiarized paper is poorly done anyway…but the question remains: is there academic dishonesty involved?  If judicial process follows, we must be clear.
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nA frequent case: student reads the paper but paraphrases/borrows without doing the hard work to reconceptualize the work themselves.  Changing a word or two isn’t sufficient
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nFaculty are skillful at detecting professional phrases that often appear in plagiarized work
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nSurvey from Center for Academic Integrity: 70% of students reported they cheated