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Educational Leadership:Literacy 2.0:Plagiarism in the Internet Age - 8 views

  • A writer who works only at the sentence level must always quote or paraphrase.
    • Stephen Fox
       
      Interesting concept
  • She begins by explaining that inserting synonyms is not paraphrasing. She then guides students in studying a passage and identifying its key words and main ideas that must be retained to paraphrase the passage. Shirley shows her students poor paraphrases of the passage for them to critique. Finally, she has them write their own paraphrase of a 50- to 100-word source passage that they themselves choose.
    • Stephen Fox
       
      Methodology for NOT plagarizing
  • A student who plagiarizes is undermining his or her community's ethics, jeopardizing his or her authority, and erasing his or her identity. That student is missing an opportunity to become a better researcher and writer and is probably not learning whatever the assignment was designed to teach.
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      Rationales NOT to plagarize - but do students understand or care?
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  • Discuss intellectual property and what it means to "own" a text.
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