Thinking about Plagiarism and

Teaching Research

 

©2004 Rebecca Moore Howard

Syracuse University

rehoward@syr.edu

 

 

What are the instructor's goals?

l       To catch plagiarists?

l       To test students' ethics?

l       To make it impossible for students to plagiarize?

l       To teach textual standards?

l       To teach critical reading skills?

l       To teach students how to write from sources?

l       To engage students in the course so they won't want to plagiarize?

l       To guide students through a successful writing experience?

l       To teach skills in finding and synthesizing research sources, especially peer-reviewed sources?

 

Subject directoriesÑsome samples

l       Dogpile:  <http://direct.dogpile.com/d/search/p/dogpile/?c=directory&Partner=infospace_dogpile_dir>. 

l       Lycos:  <http://www.lycos.com/sitemap.asp>. 

l       Yahoo!:  <http://www.yahoo.com/>. 

 

l       American Memory:  <http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/finder.html>

 

l       Infomine:  <http://infomine.ucr.edu/>.  Indexes academic websites. 

l       Internet Public Library:  <http://www.ipl.org>. 

l       Librarians' Index to the Internet:  <http://lii.org/>. 

l       WWW Virtual Library:  <http://www.vlib.org/>. 

 

l       College library websites, e.g.:  <http://www.wellesley.edu/Library/Research/research.html>

 

Helpful websites for research instruction

l       Adler-Kassner, Linda.  "Rethinking Research Writing:  Research as a Public Activity."  Teaching Composition.  McGraw-Hill.  <http://www.mhhe.com/socscience/english/tc/kassner/kassner_module.htm>. 

l       Carlson, Scott.  "Has Google Won? A Librarian Says Students Have More Information Than They Know What to Do With."  Chronicle of Higher Education 23 January 2003 <http://chronicle.com/free/2003/01/2003012301t.htm> 25 January 2003. 

l       Carlson, Scott.  "Web-Loving Students Can Be Prodded to Cite Peer-Reviewed Works in Term Papers, Study Suggests."  Chronicle of Higher Education 6 February 2003 <http://chronicle.com/free/2003/02/2003020601t.htm> 7 February 2003.

l       Harris, Robert.  "Anti-Plagiarism Strategies for Research Papers."  7 March 2002. <http://www.virtualsalt.com/antiplag.htm>.