Sizing up Your Students, Part 2:
Combating Plagiarism
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Susan Kincade
April 3, 2008
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West Hills Online -Spring 2008
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2,707 Students Enrolled (still enrolling)
85 Faculty: 25 Full-Time Faculty & 60 Part-Time Faculty
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Your Students
• You will ALWAYS have students who cheat
• You will ALWAYS have students who lie
• You will ALWAYS have students who try to work the
‘system’
• They are in your online and face-to-face
classrooms!
• You will take it personally—try not to.
80 / 20 Rule
– The majority of your students want to learn
– Your job is to focus on the 80%+ who need your
leadership
– The majority of your students know that cheating
occurs
– Your job is also to mitigate the 20%
When Do Students Cheat?
• Mid-Terms
• Finals
• Large Papers
• Under Pressure
• Determined to Cheat
10/9/2006
Excerpts follow...
Web sites offer students another way to cheat
By Scott Malone
• SUCCUMBING TO TEMPTATION
Students value originality, but when faced with
deadline pressure and tight schedules, see
copying material off the Web -- even if it's just a
few paragraphs, rather than an entire paper -- as
an easy shortcut.
Combating Plagiarism
• Find your school’s Electronic Resource/Use
Policy-and READ it.
• Find your school’s Academic Honesty Policy- and
READ it.
• Require your students to READ these policies.
Why?
Combating Plagiarism /2
• Use your syllabus to establish the “no tolerance”
policy
• Use the student’s emails to you to establish a sense
of responsibility on their part
• Don’t be afraid to discuss that you know ‘how’ they
cheat; (that you’re not as dumb as they think you
are?)
Sample Syllabus Statement
• Plagiarism/cheating will result in the following:
A ‘0’ on the assignment, and/or failure in the course, and may
also cause you to be removed from the college. You must
read the Academic Honesty Policy and send me an email
stating you understand the policy and will abide by its
contents. I will use turnitin.com to check all work submitted.
Sample Student Emails
As a way to check role at the start of class
have students email you the following:
• I have read and understand the Academic
Honesty Policy and will abide by its contents.
• I have read and understand the Electronic
Resource/Use Policy and will abide by its
contents.
Sample Responses
Student
ENG1A
Feb 5th
Assignment
What I have read on the policies and the syllabus
There are many information that we should read and understand. The most
important thing in the provisions is all members of the college community must
follow the policies. Basically, we need to act conscientiously all the time. There are
several examples of prohibited conducts; plagiarism, unauthorized assistance,
lying, tampering, and bribery.
The objective of this course is to help students to improve their English ability so
we need to work as hard as we can.
Students must turn in assignments until the dead line.
We are required to post comments at least once a week.
Two books are necessary to attend class; “The bluest eyes” and “The Bedford
guide for college writers.”
Torturing is available for every student in the library.
All students need to understand those polices and have responsibility for their act.
Sample Responses
-----Original Message----From: Student
Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 4:15 PM
To: "ENG-1A-C09-7353-07SP";
Subject: ENG-1A-C09-7353-07SP: Assignment #1
Hello, I was just writing to verify that I have read and understand
West Hills College's honesty and integrity policy. I have also read
the cousre syllabus and understand the objectives and dedication
needed for this course. I look forward to this semester and
hopefully this class will help me to be better in English as a writer
and reader.
Where Do They Go?
Students are going to:
• Online Cliff Notes: Spark Notes / Pink Monkey /
Free Book Notes / Others?
• Each Other – Sometimes Cultural Issues?
• Purchased Papers—require and check links
• They share each other’s passwords
Sample Site
• http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/bluesteye/section2.
rhtml
• Help | Log in | Sign Up for a Free
Account Home : English : Literature Study
Guides : The Bluest Eye : Autumn: Chapter
1 Autumn: Chapter 1 Summary
• Analysis
Use Search Engine
• When in doubt some use search engines to check
sections.
– http://www.google.com/
– http://www.ask.com/
– http://www.yahoo.com/
Doesn’t work for me… 
Cheating
• How do you know?
• Colloquial vs. Stylized
• Student-speak vs. Critique
• Discussion Board Postings, Journals, and Papers
Discussion Board Example
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In some of these poorer countries, families sell their
children to owners of sweat-shops for an amount of
money so they can provide for the rest of the family.
Other families just have their children working in the
sweat-shops and the owners pay the families for their
child’s labor in food, money or protection. Just like in the
sweat-shop business, some families don’t sell their
daughters, they just “loan” them to the gentlemen so they
can get money to provide for the family at their daughter’s
expense. I can’t begin to imagine what must be going
through these children’s heads as they do this work, but I
guess if you’re born into it and do it as soon as you are old
enough it just seems like the right thing to do because
you don’t know any better.
Stylized Example
• Morrison most notably uses the cultural icon of Shirley
Temple (a hugely popular child actress of the day) and
the popular children’s dolls of the 1940s to illustrate
mass culture’s influence on young black girls. When
Claudia states that, unlike Frieda, she has not reached
the point in her psychological “development” when her
hatred of Shirley Temple and dolls will turn to love, the
irony of the statement is clear. Claudia naïvely
assumes that the beauty others see in the doll must
inhere physically inside it, and so she takes apart the
doll to search for its beauty.
DB Plagiarism
• Student 1 - posted 2-9-08 1:47pm
In this case, off-shore production has numerous positives for Timbuck2. As long the
company can manager their off-shore production, they will be fine. Timbuck2 has already
doubled their production staff, added employees in all departments, has a higher
sales volume, has expanded the San Francisco factory, and is working on making
new products. They have become this successful because they have made sure their
plant in China has maintained the same quality the plant in San Francisco has.
People want quality, especially after a company has given such great
quality. Timbuck2 is known for their superiority and excellence of bags. If Timbuck2
decides to expand their off-shore production, ….
• Student 2 - posted 2-9-08 4:29pm
Off- Shore production has many advantages. Companies will be able produce more and
also be able to serve a reasonable price to customers. Allowing outsourcing will create more
jobs in poor countries. Then outsourcing will create greater sales .Which may cause
development.Timbuck2 has already doubled their production staff, added employees
in all departments, have a higher sales volume, has expanded the San Francisco
factory, and is working on making new products. They’ve become this successful
because they have made sure their plant in China has maintained the same quality
the plant in San Francisco has. People want excellence, especially after a company
has given such a great quality. Timbuck2 is known for their supremacy and
excellence of bags. If Timbuck2 decides to expand their off-shore production, ….
Homework Plagiarism
From: Eckhardt, Anthony M.
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 7:27 PM
To: Student 1
Cc: Kincade, Susan; Student 2
Subject: FW: Econ 1A, HW # 4
Hello Student 1,
Thank you for your homework number 4 in our macroeconomics class
section F01. Upon reviewing your last submission I have discovered a
problem.
A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented
as being your own work is called plagiarism and is a serious case of
academic dishonesty.
From the syllabus:
Academic Honesty: Academic dishonesty is a violation of the student code of
conduct and will not …
Initial Intervention Example
>---------- Original Message --------------------------------->From: <susankincade@westhillscollege.com>
>Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 09:44:51 -0700
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>>Jenifer,
>>I need to meet with you regarding your online postings, and
essay draft.
>>Please contact me at 960-9155.
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>>Ms. Kincade
-----Original Message----From: jenifer
Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 4:27 PM
To: Kincade, Susan
Subject: RE: Meet with Me.
I just wonder how come you can't give me your
feedback via email?
I normally get home around 10pm. The best way to
communicate with me is through email.
---------- Original Message -----------------------------From: <susankincade@westhillscollege.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 16:11:42 -0700
>Jenifer,
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>I'm not able to discuss with you via email.
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>Please call me at 559-960-9155.
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>Thank you.
>Ms. Kincade.
-----Original Message---->From: Jenifer
>Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 4:03 PM
>To: Kincade, Susan
>Subject: Re: Meet with Me.
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>Hello Ms. Kincade,
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>It will be very late in the evening by the time I get home. I don't
>think it would be appropriate to call you that late. Could you give me
your feedback about my personal essay, and posting through email?
>I understand that there's nothing due today( Wednesday), and that you
want the Personal Essay submitted tomorrow before midnight.
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>Jenifer>
From: Kincade, Susan
Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 7:58 PM
To: Jenifer
Cc: Deans
Subject: RE: Meet with Me.
Not a problem Ms. Mendez, we do not have to meet. I had hoped
to have a quality discussion with you, but I can see that it is not
necessary.
I have attached the following:
your Blackboard posting for Pages 1-32 of The Bluest Eye;
the SparkNotes web site with the exact sections highlighted that
from which you plagiarized for your posting;
• your posting for Maya Angelou's GRADUATION that clearly
has the same stylized language as the SparkNotes analysis
(although it may not have come from that site);
• the English 1A Syllabus with the Academic Honesty Policy
highlighted; and
• your email from 3/28/04 at 2:23pm stating that you accept and
agree to the Academic Honesty Policy.
I am dropping you from this course.
Ms. Kincade
What Are The Rules?
• The rules for plagiarism at your college should be the same
for online as they are for f2f!
• Make sure you know what they are.
• Make sure you have a No Tolerance Policy.
• Make sure your students Know the Policy.
And There’s More!
• Create an online environment that allows you to
“know your students.” You can do this by
incorporating the following:
–Discussion Boards
–Short Answer Essay
–Homework Assignments
And More…
• Know your students are using their text books when taking an
exam
• Create or use large test pools in your course management
system—then randomize
• Time your tests, keeping them at a one minute per question—
allowing each question to open one at a time and no going back
• Don’t allow your tests to be open for more than 48 hours: weeklong test windows are a big no-no
• Check student time on tests– 25 minutes on one test and 3
minutes on the next for two students taking it at the same time
tends to be a give-away
Next Steps
• Become Familiar with your Institution’s Electronic Resource /Use
Policy & the Academic Honesty Policy
• Become Familiar with the “Cheat Sites”
– Free Book Notes: http://www.freebooknotes.com/
– Pink Monkey: http://www.pinkmonkey.com/
– Sparknotes: http://www.sparknotes.com/
• TELL your students you know— don’t sneak up on them
• Become Familiar with your Course Management System and all its
test tools, tracking features, and assessment options—then USE
them
• Keep an eye on what’s happening—know your students
Plagiarism Sites & Articles
• http://www.plagiarism.org/
• http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/pamphlets/plagiarism.shtml
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiarism
• http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/589/01/
Fostering Academic Integrity in an Online Class
ON TARGET: Haywood Community College’s Monthly Online Learning Newsletter
Volume 1, Number 3 July 2006
by
Marlowe Mager
Coordinator of Distance Learning
Haywood Community College
Q&A
Thank You!
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susankincade@westhillscollege.com
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