Session 10

Topic:
Economic, legal, and social issues surrounding the use of information and access and use of information ethically and legally

Class Plan:



In class application:
Discussion:  A student has presented you with a term paper that  you suspect is not his/her own work. 

What are some possible ways to find out if the student plagiarized? What are the risks/dangers/implications for each of these various methods? Find out what the school’s policy is on researching possible plagiarism. Then see if you can find the paper in the library? on the web?

(Actual plagiarized paper will be used.)

This can also lend itself to a role play situation in how to approach students when we feel they may have cheated/plagiarized.



handouts:

  

MLA CITATION STYLE:

When to Use a Footnote or Endnote:
http://web.sbu.edu/history/whentonote.html
http://www.lkwdpl.org/study/universal/footnote.html


in-class assignment:
 

Design an assignment for your class which involves finding information on the web and rewording it to avoid plagiarism.

Write a mini-lecture on what plagiarism is and the school’s policy regarding academic dishonesty, based on your class’s assignments. Then design an assignment for your class which involves finding information on the web and rewording it to avoid plagiarism

THE TERM PROJECT:

Present the project as you would give it to your students
Goals:  identify (or quantify) what you are trying to accomplish and what students will learn
Topic or range of topics

 Process:

 

CREATING AN ASSIGNMENT