Jacki Stranathan
Slm 521
PLAGIARISM
I couldn’t believe it. I found this passage using goggle search engine. It was taken directly from this site. I also couldn’t believe the sites listed at the end of this elective where you could buy a paper for money. It is a sad state of affairs when adults are making money off of students to help them cheat!
Teachers beware!
Unfortunately students out there try many alternatives to doing the right thing in completing assignments. Plagiarism using the Internet is on the rise. There are ways to prevent this.
The first major way of preventing plagiarism is to make students aware of what plagiarism is! You can do this by creating activities designed to check paraphrasing and the rules of punctuation. Use quotation marks when in doubt! And make sure to give all sources credit! Also be sure to make students aware of the consequences!
Sometimes even after a lesson on the rules of citing sources and writing in your own words, you can get suspicious! You can use search engines and put phrases into the search as I did with Google. Up came right away the entire paragraph and the source. There was no citing of the source.
www.turnitin.com/static/turnitin_splash.
This was one site I came up with that can check student’s papers. It is used by many well known institutions of higher learning.
I liked one disclaimer that made mention of the fact that
students are quite capable of work that is much better than any paper written
by a paper mill. We must give our
students confidence to create on their own.
There is talent out there!
Anybody has the abilities!