Academic Integrity

Important Roanoke College documents:

• Academic Integrity at Roanoke College (the Academic Integrity handbook)

• Academic Integrity Council Membership (2012-2013)

• Information for Faculty Who are Aware of an AI Violation

• Information for Students Who are Aware of an AI Violation

• Information for Faculty Who have Filed an AI Charge

• Information for Students Charged with an AI Violation

Classroom Resources for Talking about Academic Integrity:

• "50 Ways to Jumpstart Academic Integrity Discussion in Your Class" by Renee Gravois Lee and Lisa M. Burns (posted by Univ Missouri)

• "Academic Integrity: A Letter to My Students" by Bill Taylor (posted on the Center for Academic Integrity website)

• "Plagiarism Prevention Without Fear" by Scott Jaschik (Inside Higher Ed)

• "Living with Integrity" by Bob Barret

• "A Question of Honor" by William M. Chance (The American Scholar)

• "Who Cheats, and How" by Allie Grasgreen (Inside Higher Ed)

• Letter to the Editor by Jennifer Berenson, The Brackety-Ack, September 28, 2012

• "Don't Cheat Yourself Out of an Education," by Jennifer Berenson, The Brackety-Ack, November 4, 2011

• Center for Academic Integrity bibliography

• CBB Plagiarism Resource bibliography

Classroom Resources for Teaching about Good Writing and Avoiding Plagiarism:

• Handouts & Exercises:

  • Mythbusters:  The Truth about Quotations and Citations in Academic Papers

  • Types of Plagiarism

  • Exercise: How to Write and Cite a Good Paper

    • Ideas for using this exercise

    • Base text for exercise

    • Base text with meta-comments

  • Exercise: Identifying Plagiarism

    • Identifying Plagiarism

    • Key

  • Exercise: Teaching Students to Avoid Plagiarism by Teaching Active Reading Skills

  • Plagiarism: Big trouble that's easy to avoid

• Videos

  • A Difficult Conversation (Xtranormal: a students is confronted about plagiarism)

  • Don't Believe Everything You Hear (Xtranormal: a student asks for help with citations)

  • "Plagiarism: Stopping word thieves" (CBS; 10/21/12)

  • "Et Plagieringseventyr" (University of Bergen; make sure to enable subtitles)

  • "Plagiarism" (Murdoch University Dubai)

• Prezi Presentations

  • Plagiarism Rehabilitation in the Writing Center (Oakland University)

  • Plagiarism (by Elisabeth Harris)

• PowerPoint Presentations

  • What does Turnitin actually do?

• Websites

  • CBB Plagiarism Resource Site (Colby, Bates, Bowdoin): Common Types of Plagiarism//Plagiarism Tutorial//Plagiarism Self-test

  • Harvard Guide to Using Sources

  • Purdue OWL: Avoiding Plagiarism

  • Plagiarism: What it is and How to Recognize it and Avoid it (Indiana University)

  • Diana Hacker Exercises on plagiarism (click on Research; at log in screen, click on Cancel)

Using Turnitin through Inquire 

Ideas for using Turnitin to teach students how to avoid plagiarism:

 

• Learning to paraphrase:  give students a text available online and ask them to write a one-paragraph paraphrase. Set up a Turnitin assignment where students can view the Originality Report and multiple submissions are allowed.  Teach the students how to view and evaluate the Originality Report, identify insufficient paraphrase, and make corrections. See Parkhurst and Moore (above).

• Learning to correct inadvertent plagiarism:  allow/require students to submit drafts to Turnitin and to revise based on the Originality Report. See Cheah and Bretag (above).

How to use Turnitin to monitor for plagiarism:

 

• Setting up a Turnitin assignment in Inquire, submitting and viewing Originality Reports

• Getting all you can out of an Originality Report 

Note:  The following guides produced by Turnitin demonstrate how to use Turnitin within Inquire courses (called "Moodle" in the guides).  The appearance of the courses differs slightly from their appearance within myRoanoke.

• Instructor Guide

• Student Guide

• Short Videos Guides by Turnitin