Plagiarism Archives - Enhancing Postgraduate Environments https://postgradenvironments.com/tag/plagiarism/ Wed, 16 Feb 2022 12:45:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://postgradenvironments.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/favicon.png Plagiarism Archives - Enhancing Postgraduate Environments https://postgradenvironments.com/tag/plagiarism/ 32 32 How to avoid plagiarism (and why we reference in academic writing) https://postgradenvironments.com/2021/05/12/how-to-avoid-plagiarism/ Wed, 12 May 2021 13:28:37 +0000 https://postgradenvironments.com/?p=1109 Students are often told that we reference to avoid plagiarism. They are also told that if they plagiarise, they can be excluded from the university....

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]]> Students are often told that we reference to avoid plagiarism. They are also told that if they plagiarise, they can be excluded from the university. Both of these statements are unhelpful in developing as academic writers. This video looks at what plagiarism means before providing practical examples of how we can take on the referencing practices of our fields to become better academic writers (and in the process avoid plagiarism).


Developed by Sioux McKenna, Centre for Postgraduate Studies, Rhodes University

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This video is made for postgraduate scholars and supervisors but might be useful for undergraduates too.

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]]> What is intentional plagiarism and why do people do it? https://postgradenvironments.com/2021/05/12/what-is-intentional-plagiarism/ Wed, 12 May 2021 13:28:36 +0000 https://postgradenvironments.com/?p=1112 Plagiarism happens along a continuum from intentional to unintentional. Learning how referencing is used to build claims can help to prevent unintentional plagiarism, but what...

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]]> Plagiarism happens along a continuum from intentional to unintentional. Learning how referencing is used to build claims can help to prevent unintentional plagiarism, but what about plagiarism that is done on purpose? This video looks at why people may choose to plagiarise and why universities need to act on intentional plagiarism.


Written by Sioux McKenna and produced by Samantha Carolus, Rhodes University

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]]> The misuses of Turnitin and other text-matching software https://postgradenvironments.com/2017/09/22/misuses-turnitin-text-matching-software/ https://postgradenvironments.com/2017/09/22/misuses-turnitin-text-matching-software/#comments Fri, 22 Sep 2017 14:57:29 +0000 http://postgradenvironments.com/?p=646 Turnitin, and other text-matching software, is often used by postgraduate scholars and supervisors to check their work. This is very useful because the software can...

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]]> Turnitin, and other text-matching software, is often used by postgraduate scholars and supervisors to check their work. This is very useful because the software can illustrate an over dependence on other people’s words and can help to ensure consistent referencing is applied. However, there is an increasing understanding that these programs check for plagiarism and that the percentage on the similarity index indicates levels of plagiarism. This 10-minute video shows why this is not the case. It clearly shows how the software can be used to great effect by scholars and supervisors to improve their writing but it is of only limited use to ensure that plagiarism is avoided.

Developed by Sioux McKenna – Rhodes University. Thanks to the postgraduate scholars whose work is used in this video.

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This video is an important resource for all supervisors and postgraduate scholars and should be viewed relatively early in the journey to ensure that it is understood that Turnitin and similar software provides very useful writing development opportunities. It will also be of use to those who draft academic integrity policies or who sit on plagiarism committees.

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Turnitin has lots of uses in developing postgraduate writing.

 

Two excellent books on this issue are:

  • Sutherland-Smith, W. (2008) Plagiarism, the Internet and Student Learning: Improving Academic Integrity. New York: Routledge
  • Angélil-Carter, S. (2000) Stolen language? Plagiarism in writing. Harlow, UK: Longman.

All supervisors are encouraged to read these.

 

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