Plagiarism in Higher Education - Tackling Tough Topics in Academic Integrity (Paperback)

With considerations for students, faculty members, librarians, and researchers, this book will explain and help to mitigate plagiarism in higher education contexts. Plagiarism is a complex issue that affects many stakeholders in higher education, but it isn't always well understood. This text provides an in-depth, evidence-based understanding of plagiarism with the goal of engaging campus communities in informed conversations about proactive approaches to plagiarism. Offering practical suggestions for addressing plagiarism campus-wide, this book tackles such messy topics as self-plagiarism, plagiarism among international students, essay mills, and contract cheating. It also answers such tough questions as: Why do students plagiarize, and why don't faculty always report it? Why are plagiarism cases so hard to manage? What if researchers themselves plagiarize? How can we design better learning assessments to prevent plagiarism? When should we choose human detection versus text-matching software? This nonjudgmental book focuses on academic integrity from a teaching and learning perspective, offering comprehensive insights into various aspects of plagiarism with a particular lens on higher education to benefit the entire campus community. Provides a comprehensive treatment of plagiarism in higher education Candidly presents tough topics, such as self-plagiarism and essay mills Draws from the scholarly literature to empower educators, librarians, and students to think proactively about plagiarism prevention

General

Imprint:	Libraries Unlimited
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	March 2021
Authors:	Sarah Elaine Eaton
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	230
ISBN-13:	978-1-4408-7437-6
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Library & information sciences > General Books > Language & Literature > Literary & linguistic reference works > Writing & editing guides > General Books > Social sciences > Education > Higher & further education > General
LSN:	1-4408-7437-9
Barcode:	9781440874376

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