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Plagiarism Materials
In Spring 2006, the Faculty of the English
Department approved a structured approach to teaching anti-plagiarism.
The English Department Ad-Hoc Committee
on Plagiarism has developed a package of materials for instructors
to use in that process. Hard copies of these plagiarism materials
are available from Bernard Schweizer
(head of the Plagiarism Committee) or from the English Department
secretaries. The documents are also
available at the bottom of this web page. Click
here.
Note: These online documents are in portable
document format (PDF), which means you will need Adobe
Acrobat Reader (it's free) in order to view them.
The Brooklyn Campus
Library has also created a very useful guide entitled How
to Avoid Plagiarism.
All English Department faculty are required
to include in their coursework some instruction about plagiarism
and how to avoid it, as follows:
English 13 & 14
Mandatory: Mini lecture on plagiarism
Optional: Plagiarism Worksheet OR any of the five Internet-based
plagiarism and source acknowledgement exercises in Diana Hacker's
Writer's Reference.
Optional: Plagiarism Contract
English 16
Mandatory: Full lecture on plagiarism, specifically using
"What is Plagiarism?" and "How to Avoid Plagiarism"
from the English Department's Plagiarism Package.
Mandatory: Plagiarism exercise, using exercise Worksheet from
the Package
Optional: Any of the five Internet-based plagiarism and source
acknowledgement exercises in Diana Hacker's Writer's Reference.
Optional: Plagiarism Contract
English 61, 62, 63, 64
Mandatory: Mini lecture on plagiarism
Optional: Plagiarism exercise Worksheet
Optional: Plagiarism Contract
Upper-Division & Graduate English Courses
Optional: Plagiarism Contract
Instructors should have all students fill out the Plagiarism
Worksheet in English 16.
In English 13 & 14, they may feel free to substitute
for this the online exercises offered at the website for Diana
Hacker's handbook A Writer's Reference. There, you
will find six useful exercises there: five on "Avoiding
Plagiarism in MLA Papers," one on common knowledge, and
four on proper integration of sources. All of them are very
helpful in demonstrating ways to avoid plagiarism; some of
the exercises are particularly helpful for students with a
weak grasp on paraphrasing.
Click
here for the Writer's Reference website. Click
on "Research Exercises" and then "MLA."
Note: You must register to use this website, but registration
is free.
Click
the links below to access the plagiarism materials:
1) "What is Plagiarism?"
(a short essay by Mary Hallet): for students to read at in-class
workshop
2) Plagiarism Worksheet:
for students to use during in-class workshop
3) Plagiarism Contract:
for students to sign upon completion of in-class workshop
4) Plagiarism Report Form:
for professors to use when reporting confirmed cases of plagiarism
to the English Department Chair (who will build
a file to track repeat offenders)
5) "Avoiding Plagiarism" (a handout from Purdue
University's Online Writing Lab): for students to use at in-class
workshop.
Note: this last item is copyright-protected,
so we must pay Purdue a nominal fee for every copy that we
distribute, and cannot, therefore, post a copy here. However,
here is a
link to the original at the Purdue University Online Writing
Lab website.
Feel free to amend the Plagiarism Worksheet
or to modify the Plagiarism Contract to implement your own
disciplinary consequences.
Also available (for faculty only) are the following items:
1) "Detecting and Preventing Plagiarism" (a short
article by the English Department Ad-Hoc Committee on Plagiarism):
about how to confirm plagiarism and how to teach students
to avoid it
2) Plagiarism Survey: for professors to submit (at the end
of every semester) to Bernard Schweizer of the English
Department Ad-Hoc Committee on Plagiarism
Note: Regular faculty participation in the Plagiarism Survey
will provide the English Department with a
way to track how well faculty think the Workshop is meeting
its intended goals.
For further information about the English Department's
plagiarism policy or to get copies of any of the plagiarism
materials, contact Bernard Schweizer. |
