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At 4:44pm on December 11, 2008, Cornelia Pokrzywa said…: I think members should be required to post a photo. Those silhouettes make me feel like I am at target practice!

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The "Copycats"

As I gather K-12 plagiarism sources and begin interviewing students, my own kids wanted in on the action. I'm not planning to put them in my "real" research, so we worked on this video just for fun. Enjoy!

Posted on December 19, 2008 at 7:48pm —

Plagiarism Video

I gathered student interviews on the topic of plagiarism and found that many students can easily define the basic concepts, but still have difficulty understanding that definitions can shift depending on context. For example, the definition of common knowledge varies widely between handbooks, electronic resources, and instructors. It's not unusual for a student to be told that common knowledge is anything you "already know" -- without realizing that this writer-oriented definition may leave the… Continue

Posted on December 15, 2008 at 12:40pm — 1 Comment