Plagiarism

Writing-plagiarism advice for lessons.

This is from the Apple learning exchange teaching and learning website.

Catching students, who plagiarizes often a difficult task specific teachers at a time crunch it with their lessons are training at 250 papers. Now granted a simple cut-and-paste of an encyclopedia or encyclopedia website is easy to catch as stated in the article. Nowadays, school districts are paying for anti-plagiarism websites in which teachers through the use of scanning software can have papers turned in by students check to see if there is a likelihood of plagiarism taking place.

But I don't exactly call 12 or 13 suggestions a few, but these are some very good suggestions, some of which are being used in classrooms today as writing across the curriculum and writing as part of standards-based testing is becoming the norm.

Especially in high school, assuming that students know how to research on the Internet can lead to plagiarism problems developing a lesson on how to search on the Internet out to gather information and how to use primary source materials would be the very very beneficial before actual writing does take place. I like the idea that that educating parents is also very beneficial. In keeping students from plagiarizing. Now, will this ever stop the problem, no but it is a good start.