Activity 3.1b How to avoid Plagiarism
Completion requirements
Objective (AIM):
To explore the understanding and ways to avoid plagiarism in respect to higher education
Motivation (WHY): To build up expertise in academic integrity values.
WHO: You should undertake this exercise individually.
Preparation: You should refer to current internet resources published between 2010 to present and to the sites include:
Questions to guide you:
What are the causes of plagiarism in higher education?
- How can higher academic institutions discourage plagiarism?
- How are the results you found in the search engines differ and relate from the reality in your higher education institution in which you work?
- Identify strategies one can use to avoid plagiarism
Resources:
Use internet update resources.
Tool: Discussion forum
Duration: 80 minutes
Activity
WHAT: (to do)
- Browse in the internet and select at least 3 academic papers on how to avoid plagiarism. Take note of the strategies used to curb plagiarism in your institution.
- Review, discuss and record your opinions / findings and others views on the papers.
- Summarise the views and the methodology used.
- Describe how the opinion from paper relate to your as individuals and the institution
HOW: (to respond to the assigned task)
- Please start the task by searching papers on causes of plagiarism cases using web search engines. You can also visit the suggested links above.
- List the papers and internet sites you visited. Please write the findings from each of the papers.
- You could also provide a direct links to the papers to make life easy for all!
- Attach your findings to your forum contribution and include notes on particular aspects to which you would like to draw the group's attention.
- Share your results and the findings through the created group discussion forum
FEEDBACK: (from the group / facilitators)
- Take a look at the other forum contributions describing the other participants' findings
- Reply and comment on at least 1 other participant's review comments / findings.
Assessment:
Completion of this activity will count towards your course portfolio.
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