Teaching Resources

Course and Web Related

The Issue and the Philosophy

Research Resources

Creating the Assignment

Writing Resources

Discussion Activities

CCCOnline Faculty Handbook
(Section on Misconduct)

Confirming and Communicating
about Plagiarism Cases

Listservs about the
Teaching of Writing

CCCOnline Academic Integrity Policy:

Student Handbook (This section defines misconduct)

A Letter from the Dean

[Ethical Question: Do learners understand why academic integrity and citation matter? Do faculty inform and promote these practices in courses? Why do some learners choose to ignore these values?]

National Center for Academic Integrity:
http://www.academicintegrity.org/

Evaluating Sources on the Web:
http://www.ccconline.org/students/resources_evaluating_websites.htm

Online Article Databases for CCCOnline Students and Faculty http://www.frontrange.edu/pub_index.cfm?cid=9296

Time Management Tool for Research Projects:
http://www.lib.umn.edu/help/calculator/

Taking Better Notes from Sources:
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_paraphr.html

MLA Style Writing Resource:
http://owl.ccd.edu/writ_resources/handouts/MLA_Exp.html

APA Style Writing Resource:
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_apa.html

Online Tutoring:

SMARTHINKING - CCCOnline provides this nationally known online tutoring service for CCCOnline students. This service provides writing support in all subjects. It also provides tutoring in other academic areas.

OWL - Online Writing Lab and Tutoring Center at CCD

Note: To send papers longer than ten pages to the OWL, send two files and label accordingly: A Bedard ENG 122 Paper File One of Two; A Bedard ENG 122 Paper File Two of Two

Writing Mechanics Handbook: http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/composition/organization.htm

Purdue OWL: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/

The ability to write and speak clearly about subject matter is a key competency expressed in all Colorado Community College Guaranteed Transfer Courses:

Amer. Assoc. of College Writing has a great statement

http://www.ilstu.edu/%7Eddhesse/wpa/positions/WPAplagiarism.pdf

Pro-Active Strategies (Special thanks to Marjorie Janotta and Chuck Hundertmark ):

Framing research and writing assignments play a key part. Here are some main steps, and some strategies shared to date:

Writing Project Template

Sample Writing Assignment

Setting Up Online Conferences

Sample Rubrics for Writing Assignments

Rubric Generator

Unit 1 Plagiarism Discussion Sample:
"It' s important to talk about plagiarism up front, since it relates to all writing in this course. Let's talk about what it is, how to avoid it, and what happens if you choose to plagiarize."

Citation Practice in Discussion:
Using Discussion to have learners demonstrate citation skills. Ask all learners to read a common article (could be a link). Have each post one quote, one cited summary or paraphrase, and one bib entry in the discussion. Both faculty and learners remark on those that are correct, or correct those that aren't.

http://www.ccconline.org/FacultySC/FacultyHandbook/faculty_handbook_a.htm#a3

Requiring the Learner to Produce Print Sources:
(See the Letter from the Dean for sample text.)

Different Cases:
A paper or uses sources and doesn't cite them correctly is still subject to consequences related to citation requirements (ex. one citation error= B , 2 = C, 3 = F on research points).

Overt plagiarism is the submission of a paper copied or written from another student, one basically copied from an internet site (or chunks) or bought papers. Overt plagiarism may also occur in discussion postings.

Confirming Cases:
Google: Cut and paste some like sections of the paper into Google.
Others: www.turnitin.com

Communicating:

In all cases, copy your Faculty Chair in student communications. If there is a learning opporunity, use it. If it's overt, discuss it with your chair, then proceed with communicating the consequences.

http://www.utoronto.ca/writing/facnet.html