One cause of these almost-plaigiarism stringing together of words
from articles is that students lack both vocabulary and
understanding. They are afraid to change material "too much" and
the text becomes wrong.
Ken
DeVolder Carol L wrote:
What I'm finding is that, rather than explaining things in
their own words, students are stringing together phrases
lifted directly from articles. It makes me very angry that
students think I'm dumb enough to know when they do or don't
know what they are talking about. This is an upper-level
course. I realize I asked for it by requiring a brief paper
(5-7 pages, 3 refs from primary sources, etc.). It is my
deeply-held belief that I should not lower my standards by
having them do things that don't require writing. I have them
write short papers throughout the course that involve critical
thinking and reasoning, and are not APA-style activities, but
I think they should be able to complete this brief assignment
without plagiarizing.
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Department of Psychology St. Ambrose University 518 West
Locust Street Davenport, Iowa 52803
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I think it boils down to how many different ways can you
paraphrase that sentence? I suspect if it's a limited report
without a larger context from which to paraphrase, that you
might see a lot of similar sounding attempts at paraphrase.
Annette
Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology
University of San Diego 5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92110
619-260-4006 [email protected]
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Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 13:17:19 -0500 From: "DeVolder Carol
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OK, I need a quick show of hands--plagiarism or not?
Here is the sentence from the paper:
When hearing loss exists, the main cause is damage or
complete destruction of sensory hair cells.
Here is the sentence from the article:
The principle cause of hearing loss is damage to or complete
destruction of sensory hair cells.
I am encountering this so often, I'm starting to question my
own judgment.
Thanks, Carol
Carol L. DeVolder, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology Chair,
Department of Psychology St. Ambrose University 518 West
Locust Street Davenport, Iowa 52803
Phone: 563-333-6482 e-mail: [email protected] web:
http://web.sau.edu/psychology/psychfaculty/cdevolder.htm
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