Thinking
about Plagiarism and
Teaching Research
©2004 Rebecca Moore Howard
Syracuse University
rehoward@syr.edu
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To catch plagiarists?
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To test students'
ethics?
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To make it impossible
for students to plagiarize?
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To teach textual
standards?
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To teach critical
reading skills?
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To teach students how to
write from sources?
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To engage students in
the course so they won't want to plagiarize?
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To guide students
through a successful writing experience?
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To
teach skills in finding and synthesizing research sources, especially
peer-reviewed sources?
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Dogpile: <http://direct.dogpile.com/d/search/p/dogpile/?c=directory&Partner=infospace_dogpile_dir>.
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Lycos: <http://www.lycos.com/sitemap.asp>.
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Yahoo!: <http://www.yahoo.com/>.
l American Memory: <http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/finder.html>
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Infomine: <http://infomine.ucr.edu/>. Indexes academic websites.
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Internet
Public Library: <http://www.ipl.org>.
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Librarians'
Index to the Internet: <http://lii.org/>.
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WWW Virtual
Library: <http://www.vlib.org/>.
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College
library websites, e.g.: <http://www.wellesley.edu/Library/Research/research.html>
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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>.
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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.
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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.
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Harris, Robert.
"Anti-Plagiarism Strategies for Research Papers." 7 March 2002. <http://www.virtualsalt.com/antiplag.htm>.