Digital Credibility: 13 Lessons For the Google Generation - 13 Digital Research Tools And The Credibility Lessons They Teach by TeachThought Staff This post is promoted by Noet, makers of Encyclopedia Britannica Noet Edition and the free research app for the classics, who asked us to talk about the credibility of information research in a digital world. We thought, then, that it might make sense to focus on digital tools and resources that highlight the idea of credibility. And because credibility and research are such important digital concepts–or really, data and thinking concepts, actually–we itemized each tool as lesson in and of itself. The Google Generation has a universe of information, right there on a little pinch-and-zoom screen. Further, “by ignoring the phases of inquiry learning, premature Googlers often find what they want rather than what they might need. This doesn’t make digital research better or worse, but rather different. Lesson 1: Not all sources are created equal. Lesson 2: Access matters–so improve it.
Defining and Avoiding Plagiarism: The WPA Statement on Best Practices | Council of Writing Program Administrators Download a PDF version of this document. Plagiarism has always concerned teachers and administrators, who want students’ work to represent their own efforts and to reflect the outcomes of their learning. However, with the advent of the Internet and easy access to almost limitless written material on every conceivable topic, suspicion of student plagiarism has begun to affect teachers at all levels, at times diverting them from the work of developing students’ writing, reading, and critical thinking abilities. This statement responds to the growing educational concerns about plagiarism in four ways: by defining plagiarism; by suggesting some of the causes of plagiarism; by proposing a set of responsibilities (for students, teachers, and administrators) to address the problem of plagiarism; and by recommending a set of practices for teaching and learning that can significantly reduce the likelihood of plagiarism. What Is Plagiarism? What are our Shared Responsibilities? Best Practices 1.
Sweet Search About Online Plagiarism The Threat of Plagiarism Plagiarism is a serious and growing problem on the Web. At any moment, anyone in the world can copy your online content and instantly paste it onto their own site. The Web is built on the hard work of honest people who devote their time and energy to creating original content. Copyscape was created as a free public service to address this growing problem. Preventing Plagiarism As with many other things in life, it is best to prevent plagiarism before it happens. Detecting Plagiarism It is up to you to find out whether someone has copied your content without permission. Responding to Plagiarism If you discover that someone has stolen your content, it is best to act quickly. Understanding Your Rights The Copyscape Resource Center will help you understand your rights and the laws that regulate online plagiarism. Learning from Others More information on Copyscape is available here.
Kate Chopin: The Awakening, The Storm, stories, biography Plagiarism Stoppers : A Teachers Guide About.com > Education > Secondary School Educators > Cheating and Education An annotated list of links about plagiarism, a result of the designated search. Cut-and-Paste Plagiarism: Preventing, Detecting and Tracking Online Plagiarism Hot linked essay on the titled topic. Downers Grove North High School Library Articulate and comprehensive guide for teachers concerned with the issue. Provides tips for detecting, training aids, links to paper mills, search services, and articles about plagiarism. EasyBib.com Great free site for learning how or actually creating citations online which can be printed out or saved to disk. Ethics 101: Cheating, Plagiarism, Site Evaluation -- Copyright and Your Students Great list of sites that are useful for educating students about the ethics involved with copyrights, cheating, and plagiarism. Noodletools Site offers a number of free resources for teaching proper citation and quotation styles.
Kate Chopin: A Re-Awakening [ About the Program | Interviews | Chronology ] [ Electronic Library | Additional Resources | Credits ] Plagiarism What is Plagiarism and Why is it Important? In college courses, we are continually engaged with other people’s ideas: we read them in texts, hear them in lecture, discuss them in class, and incorporate them into our own writing. As a result, it is very important that we give credit where it is due. Plagiarism is using others’ ideas and words without clearly acknowledging the source of that information. How Can Students Avoid Plagiarism? To avoid plagiarism, you must give credit whenever you use another person’s idea, opinion, or theory; any facts, statistics, graphs, drawings—any pieces of information—that are not common knowledge; quotations of another person’s actual spoken or written words; or paraphrase of another person’s spoken or written words. These guidelines are taken from the Code of Student Rights, Responsibilities, and Conduct. How to Recognize Unacceptable and Acceptable Paraphrases Here’s an UNACCEPTABLE paraphrase that is plagiarism: What makes this passage plagiarism? 1. 2.
Kate Chopin, 1851-1904 Chopin, Kate 1851-1904, Writer. Although Katherine O'Flaherty Chopin was a native of St. Louis (born 8 February 1851) and spent barely 14 years in Louisiana, her fiction is identified with the South. At 19, Kate O'Flaherty married Oscar Chopin, a young cotton broker, and moved with him to New Orleans and later to his family home in Cloutierville, La., near the Red River. After Oscar died in 1882, she returned with their six children to St. Distinctly unsentimental in her approach, she often relied on popular period motifs, such as the conflict of the Yankee businessman and the Creole, a theme that informs her first novel, At Fault (1890), and several of her short stories. Chopin died of a brain hemorrhage after a strenuous day at the St. [Note: Recent scholarship points to a birth year of 1850 for Kate Chopin. Barbara C. Barbara C.
Plagiarism Sharon Stoerger MLS, MBA sstoer@yahoo.com Articles ~~ Copyright & Intellectual Freedom ~~ For Instructors ~~ For Students Plagiarism Case Studies ~~ Plagiarism Detection Tools ~~ Term Paper Sites--Examples Additional Plagiarism Resources ~~ Additional Ethics Resources Articles Actions Do Speak Louder than Words: Deterring Plagiarism with the Use of Plagiarism- Detection Software In the spring semester of 2000, Bear Braumoeller, an assistant professor of government at Harvard University and Brian Gaines, an associate professor of political science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) began their plagiarism study involving UIUC students taking Political Science 100: Introduction to Political Science. This report details Braumoeller and Gaines' experience with the Essay Verification Engine, EVE, which they used to detect instances of plagiarism among the 180 students studied. Are More People Cheating? James M.
Kate Chopin: A Re-Awakening—Chronology A chronology of key events in Kate Chopin's life. 1850Kate Chopin (Katherine O'Flaherty) born on February 8 to Thomas O'Flaherty, an Irish immigrant, and Eliza Faris, a Creole. 1855Kate's father dies in a rail accident. Kate begins school at Academy of the Sacred Heart in St. Louis. 1863Kate's great-grandmother, Victoire Verdon Charleville, dies. Kate's half-brother, George O'Flaherty, a Confederate soldier, dies of typhoid fever. 1868Kate graduates from the Academy of the Sacred Heart. 1869Kate visits New Orleans in the spring. 1870Kate marries Oscar Chopin on June 9 in St. [ Home | About the Program | Transcript | Interviews | Chronology ] [ Electronic Library | Additional Resources | Credits ] [ PBS Online home | LPB Interactive home ]
Plagiarism What this handout is about This handout explains what plagiarism is and outlines steps students can follow to avoid plagiarizing. What is plagiarism? At UNC, plagiarism is defined as “the deliberate or reckless representation of another’s words, thoughts, or ideas as one’s own without attribution in connection with submission of academic work, whether graded or otherwise.” Why are my instructors so concerned about plagiarism? In order to understand plagiarism, it helps to understand the process of sharing and creating ideas in the university. Think of it this way: in the vast majority of assignments you’ll get in college, your instructors will ask you to read something (think of this material as the building blocks) and then write a paper in which you analyze one or more aspects of what you have read (think of this as the new structure you build). When you cite a source, you are using an expert’s ideas as proof or evidence of a new idea that you are trying to communicate to the reader.