With students accessing online resources to do homework
assignments and write papers, comes the risk of plagiarism. To help to prevent
plagiarism, I will show students how to properly quote information they find. I
remember when I was in undergraduate school, my teacher failed someone in my English
class for taking credit for something that wasn’t his. I asked her one day, how
was she so sure that majority of the paper given to her was plagiarized. She told
that since we were to upload our work onto the school based website, there is a
program installed that automatically goes through papers submitted. This program
which scans papers than highlights any words or paragraphs that match with one
found online.
This was an excellent tool for preventing plagiarism. But
in order to help prevent the need to plagiarize, student will be aware of
proper citing techniques.
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