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Friday, December 7, 2018

9:00 - 10:15 am

12 Nicholson Hall (East Bank)

Using someone else’s words without attribution could be a result of poor documentation habits, student errors, or attempts at academic misconduct. When students have committed plagiarism, is it necessary to determine the student’s intent to establish an appropriate response?

Facilitated by Dan Emery (Writing Across the Curriculum).

We encourage you to read the provided texts in advance of the session to stimulate a thoughtful discussion:

Wu, Shanlon. "Put the intent back into Plagiarism", The Blog, Huffpost (February 10, 2015).

Yorke, Lawson, and McMahon. "Can we reliably determine intent in cases of plagiarism?", Refereed Paper, 4th Asia Pacific Conference on Educational Integrity (4APCEI), University of Wollongong NSW Australia (September 2009).

Mott-Smith, Jennifer A.. "Bad idea about writing: Plagiarism deserves to be punished", Inside Higher Ed (May 23, 2017).