Smart Student Videos

The Smart Student YouTube Videos offer a breezy introduction to the importance of citing sources and creating APA (and other style) reference entries, as well as other writing advice. I recommend these videos to students who struggle with written manuals.

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Giving Credit Where Credit Is Due

Gregoty Smith addresses plagiarism in his article "Giving Credit Where Credit Is Due ."

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Originality Reports

Google for Education has unveiled Originality Reports , a new component to identify plagiarism.

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The Importance of Confronting Privately

Fernanda Zamudio-Suaréz discusses the case of student Tiffany C. Martínez who complained about a lack privacy when her university professor accused her of plagiarism.

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A Consequence of Plagiarism

Helen Rubinstein feels anguish over reporting a struggling student found to be committing plagiarism , and the pain only increases when the students commits suicide.

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Cheating on Campus

Gary Thomason reports that Stanford is investigating increased cheating. Stanford Provost John Erchemendy says that as many as 20 percent of students in a large introductory course may have cheated. "“With the ease of technology and widespread sharing that is now part of a collaborative culture,” he wrote, “students need to recognize and be reminded that it is dishonest to appropriate the work of others” (Erchemendy, as cited by Thomason, 2015).

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TurnItIn

Elisabeth Pyatt shares tips for using TurnItIn , a plagiarism checker which with the Grademark add-on has been expended into a grading tool.

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Flickr As A Source Of Creative Commons Photos

Jason B. Jones shares Five Ways to Use Flickr to Make Better Slides. In 2009 he had shared how Flickr can searched for photos which have been released to the Creative Commons, allowing them to be used without copyright royalties as long as each photo received appropriate attribution.

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Plagiarism Goes Social

Marc Parry's "Plagiarism Goes Social" is a good account of plagiarism sources today.

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