Teaching Plagiarism Prevention to College Students: An Ethics-Based Approach

Connie Strittmatter; Virginia K. Bratton

doi:10.5771/9781442264427

Summary

Teaching Plagiarism Prevention to College Students: An Ethics-Based Approach provides an innovative approach to plagiarism instruction by grounding it in ethics theory. By providing an ethics foundation to plagiarism instruction, this book helps the plagiarism instructor to address both unintentional and intentional plagiarism behaviors among students. This book provides tools to address why plagiarism is an important ethical issue in an academic environment.This book introduces general principles of ethics adaptable to library instruction of plagiarism in a variety of learning settings. It guides an instructor through curriculum pedagogical design drawing on library and ethics training literatures. It provides examples of materials to support the implementation of an ethical approach to plagiarism instruction. Finally, it outlines a detailed approach to assessment in order to measure changes in student reactions, learning, and behaviors as a result of this instruction. It further provides guidance in how to communicate institutional outcomes to key decision-makers.

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Copyright year: 2016
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4422-6440-3
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4422-6442-7
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 140
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Figures No access
3. Tables and Textboxes No access
4. Preface No access
5. Acknowledgments No access
1. Ch01. Plagiarism Prevention Instruction No access
2. Ch02. Thinking through the Ethics of Plagiarism No access
1. Ch03. Getting Started No access
2. Ch04. Designing Your Content No access
3. Ch05. Putting It into Action No access
1. Ch06. Did They Like It? Did They Learn? No access
2. Ch07. Did the Training Make a Difference? No access
3. Ch08. Sharing the News No access
4. Ch09. Where Do We Go from Here? No access
Appendix. Plagiarism Scenarios No access Pages 133 - 136
Index No access Pages 137 - 138
About the Authors No access Pages 139 - 140