Plagiarism and the 21st Century Classroom: Academic Discourse Conventions, Internet Conventions, and Pedagogies
Elaine E. Whitaker and Rebecca Moore Howard invite us to reflect on our classroom pedagogies, our assignments, and even on our working conditions when we consider the important matter of plagiarism. While not blaming faculty for students' plagiarized papers, their brief articles point out ways that we, as teachers, can help students understand the importance of academic conventions of source attribution.
- Before reading these selections, briefly write about your own experiences with source attribution. You might reflect on your college experience, on your experience as a writing teacher, or on your current perspective on issues of plagiarism.
- After reading Whitaker and Howard, develop a lesson that models ways students might incorporate other sources into their own writing, and that helps them understand why source attribution is important in academic discourse (and elsewhere).
- Consider how you might use internet-based sources to help students see for themselves why source attribution is important. You might look at Wikipedia, Google Scholar, or some other popular, nonsubscription information resource as content for a lesson along these lines.
- Take a few minutes to watch Plagiarism: Pernicious Plague or Preventable Pest.
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