At 3:19 PM -0500 5/10/06, John W. Nichols, M.A. wrote:
The Situation:
You have a written assignment that everyone in your class is required to
do, and you require that proper APA-style referencing be used.
The key is the exact nature of the assignment.
If it includes _finding_ a reference and reporting it in a correctly
formatted style, then clearly students are handing in someone else's
work as their own, which is plagiarism.
If the assignment is to take information provided in unformatted form
(such as the textbook used in the course) and formatted correctly,
they are still handing in work (the formatting) done by someone else
under their name .... still plagiarism.
Is there some other possibility that I've missed?
BTW -- I'm not sure that the student who _submitted_ the original
formatted reference was himself guilty; _if_ he was trying to provide
a model of what a correctly formatted reference would look like,
which is consistent with his statement.
BTW2 -- What I sometime tell my class is that when the same work is
submitted by more than one student, I'll divide the grade by the
number of people submitting the work.
Many students are new to APA-style referencing but you have provided
instruction and examples, plus you have provided a link to APA's style
site.
One student, in response to questions posted to the class discussion
list, and in an effort to help his classmates, posts the following
message:
(snip, snip)
This is what I used. I hope this helps!
Papalis, Diane, Olds, Sally Wendkos, Feldman, Ruth Duskin. (2004). Human
Development (9th Ed.). New York, NY: McGraw- Hill Companies, Inc.
(snip, snip)
Slightly more than half the class submits the assignment with the
textbook reference exactly as shown. The spelling of the lead author's
name is not corrected. The ampersand is not added. Even the blank
space in "McGraw- Hill" is not eliminated.
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