The best way to handle this is not to give assignments that are
plagiarism sensitive.I do it the old fashion way.I put copies of
articles or books on reserve in the library.Students will have
to sign their names to get them mout.Of course,they may make their
own copies but will have to attach the
rences.
Miguel
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Just the act of copying and pasting the reference. Not correc
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> They would not have received credit in cases of formatting errors.
> Including correctly formatted references with
At 3:19 PM -0500 5/10/06, John W. Nichols, M.A. wrote:
The Situation:
You have a written assignment that everyone in your class is required to
do, and you require that proper APA-style referencing be used.
The key is the exact nature of the assignment.
If it includes _finding_ a reference and r
would
classify it as a case of plagiarism.
Miguel
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They would not have received cred
John:
My overall opinion here, esp. if your goal is to prepare them for
four-year schools, is to educate them about a) citations and style, and
b) plagiarism. I think going without a penalty creates too little
impetus for the lesson to be learned (although the half-credit
suggestion makes sense
They would not have received credit in cases of formatting errors.
Including correctly formatted references with the assignment is the sole
criterion in determining acceptance of the assignment.
The assignments involve writing up very short summaries of course topics
(mostly Cognitive, Psychosocia
In my case, it is a second year course. We do not do much to control
enrollment, so some students take it in their first year. Some students
taking the course already have 2- or 4-year degrees. Some even have
graduate degrees. (Not at all uncommon for Community Colleges.)
Students at all level
If one of the objectives of the assignment is to show they can format
references appropriately, then both their strategies and their performances are
faulty. I'd give the students who did the copying an additional assignment
that made them practice formatting references. (Of course, I say thi
How about this twist on David's comments - instead of a simple 0, how
about giving students half the credit if they resubmit the paper with the
appropriate citation? At least with this appropriate you're forcing
them to show you that they do indeed know how to use APA style
appropriately.
-- Mar
John
Would the students have gotten credit for the assignment had they on
their own messed up the reference? If so, I would chose option 3. If
this error does not constitute enough of a mistake to fail the
assignment I would chose option 2.
It is pretty sad that the other students would even ch
I think the student has simply provided bad advice to the class. I personally
would find it appropriate for a student to ask another student about
formatting. So I would give the students credit. I would point out to the
students the dangers of giving and receiving bad advice. If the assignment
You did not state the level of the course, and in this instance, I think
that would be relevant in my decision. I don't know that I'd call copying
the reference from other students (I assume that they did not copy the
whole paper, which would certainly cause me to go with a more severe
penalty) p
3On 10 May2006, at 16:19 PM, John W. Nichols, M.A. wrote:The Situation:You have a written assignment that everyone in your class is required todo, and you require that proper APA-style referencing be used.Many students are new to APA-style referencing but you have providedinstruction and examples,
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