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Plagiarism, SafeAssign
Debbie J. Fields
Plagiarism
There are few intellectual offenses more serious than plagiarism in academic and professional
contexts. While some cultures may not insist so heavily on documenting sources of words, ideas,
images, sounds, etc., American culture does. A charge of plagiarism can have severe
consequences, including expulsion from a university or loss of a job, not to mention a writer's loss
of credibility and professional standing.
Review the plagiarism tutorial on the Las Positas College website:
http://www.laspositascollege.edu/library/pdf/LPCwebplag.pdf
What is plagiarism?
http://www.plagiarism.org/
How to recognize plagiarism?
http://www.indiana.edu/%7Eistd/
Assignment #1a: Plagiarism Pre-Test
Take the So You Think You Know What Plagiarism Is? Pre-test Your Knowledge quiz at
http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/plag/pretest.php
You will automatically send me the results at the end of the quiz, by correctly completing the
information at the end of the short quiz.
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Plagiarism Traffic School at Las Positas
http://www.laspositascollege.edu/raw/documents/plagiarism_practices.pdf
Turnitin.com, SafeAssign
Turnitin (also known as Turnitin.com) is an Internet-based plagiarism-detection service. Students
or instructors submit electronic versions of essays to Turnitin.com. Turnitin.com then produces an
originality report. This report shows the instructor the results of Turnitin.com's comparison of the
essay to content on the web, to Turnitin.com's database of student writing, and to some databases
of common full-text journals.
Because Las Positas utilizes Blackboard, instructors may use Blackboard’s SafeAssign. Read
more about SafeAssign at: http://www.laspositascollege.edu/facultystaff/plagiarism.php and view
the video on how to submit documents to SafeAssign:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoHTnid2czw
Assignment #1b: SafeAssign
1. You are going to create two documents; an original document and a plagiarized document, submit
both documents to Blackboard’s SafeAssign, review what SafeAssign reveals about your
documents, and write a summary of your results from SafeAssign
2. Using MSWord or Notepad you will create an original document.
Your Name
Today’s Date
DJ Fields
Title of Your Paper
The paper must be at least 5 paragraphs of
college level writing (a paragraph is at least 3
sentences). The topic of the paper is your
choice.
The file name of the document should be
yourname_original.doc
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3. Using MSWord or Notepad you will create a plagarized document.
Your Name
Today’s Date
DJ Fields
Title of Your Paper
The paper must be at least 5 paragraphs of
college level writing (a paragraph is at least 3
sentences). The topic of the paper is your
choice.
The content of the document MUST be from 3
DIFFERENT resources.
The file name of the document should be
yourname_plagarized.doc
4. View the video on how to submit documents to SafeAssign:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoHTnid2czw
Logon to the course on Blackboard, in the Assignments section you will see HW7a: Plagarized
Document and HW7b: Original Document. Click View/Complete to upload your plagiarized and
original document.
6. Review the Gradebook for HW7a, HW7b, click on the ! and View Grade Details, View User
Activity, review the SA Report. Create an MSWord document called
yourname_safeassign_summary.doc.
Your Name
Today’s Date
DJ Fields
Summary of SafeAssign Results
In this document, write a half page summary of your results and
your interpretation of your results of your submission of both
documents to SafeAssign.
Email me as an attachment the yourname_safeassign.doc
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