Plagiarism Information for Staff
Introduction
Academic integrity is a quality associated with high standards of scholarship and is a responsibility of both staff and students. Academic staff should provide examples of good practice in academic integrity by acknowledging appropriately the works, designs, ideas and words of others in their teaching and research. Providing appropriate examples of assessment work that display good practice in using citations, references and acknowledgements and providing opportunities for students to practise their use will assist in developing academic skills and in reducing the instances of plagiarism.
The University is committed to assisting staff and students in maintaining high standards of academic integrity by implementing highly visible procedures associated with educational opportunities and detection. Staff can also assist by employing approaches to assessment that minimise the possibility for students to submit plagiarised material.
University Policy on Academic Integrity and Plagiarism
The University of Adelaide's Academic Honesty & Assessment Obligations for Coursework Students Policy & Academic Dishonesty Procedures includes the issues associated with plagiarism, the responsibilities of the Faculty/School/Department, the responsibilities of staff and students, as well as the procedures and penalties for plagiarism.
Turnitin - Plagiarism Detection
The University of Adelaide has access to Turnitin, an online plagiarism prevention service for both educators and learners.
- Go to the Turnitin page for information on getting access and how to use it.
Resources for Staff
Assessment cover sheets
Schools/Departments should provide an 'Assessment Cover Sheet' that requires the signature of the student declaring that all cited works have been clearly identified and acknowledged. For students submitting work electronically, a suitable digital version of an 'Assessment Cover Sheet' should be used.
Avoiding Plagiarism: Achieving academic writing
http://www.adelaide.edu.au/myuni/onlinelearning/learningmodules/avoidingPlagiarism/player.html
This learning module was prepared by Ursula McGowan and Kerry O'Regan, CLPD, University of Adelaide, 2008. It is an Articulate presentation and requires your browser to have a Flash Player plug-in installed.
Research - Writing
Plagiarism Poster
- Quality Assurance in detecting and preventing plagiarism: A mainstream educative strategy, ISL Symposium, Birmingham, 2004.
Plagiarism Framework: Student as Apprentice Researcher
- This framework is designed to help academic staff in examining the cultural and language factors that may limit the academic expression by a student at any given stage of their transition into university, and in forming realistic expectations of the likely levels of performance on written assignments.
www.adelaide.edu.au/clpd/plagiarism/staff/downloads/06_UM_plagiarism_framework.pdf
University of Adelaide Library
- Writing guides, style guides, University of Adelaide: Thesis specifications Australian Digital Theses program, EndNote bibliographic software, Plagiarism
http://www.adelaide.edu.au/library/guide/hum/english/E_style.html
Recent CLPD Papers on Plagiarism
- McGowan, U. (2010) Re-defining academic teaching practice in terms of research apprenticeship. In M. Devlin, J. Nagy & A. Lichtenberg (eds.) Reshaping Higher Education. Proceedings of the HERDSA Conference, Melbourne 6-9 July. Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia, Inc. (refereed)
- McGowan, U. (2009) Research Apprenticeship: Is this the answer to inadvertent plagiarism in undergraduate students’ writings? Proceedings of the 4th Asia-Pacific Conference on Educational Integrity. Wollongong, September 29-30 http://ro.uow.edu.au/apcei/09/papers/34/ Accessed 16/3/10
- McGowan, U. (2008b) Higher education – for what – when students are linguistically outside their ‘zone of proximal development’?. In: Student Learning for what? Proceedings of the 15th Improving Student Learning Symposium. Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, 3–5 September 2007.
- McGowan, U. (2008a) International Students: A conceptual framework for dealing with unintentional plagiarism. In: Tim S. Roberts (ed.) Student Plagiarism in an Online World: Problems and Solutions. Information Science Reference, Hershey, New York, pp. 92-107. NB: This book is available online through the University of Adelaide Barr Smith Library http://www.adelaide.edu.au/library/
- McGowan, U. (2007) Plugging a hole in holistic institutional approaches to plagiarism: A focus on research. In: Tracey Bretag et al. Proceedings of the 3rd Asia-Pacific Conference on Educational Integrity. Adelaide, December 6-7 (refereed) http://www.unisa.edu.au/educationalintegrity/conference/proceedings.asp
- McGowan, U. (2005) Does educational integrity mean teaching students NOT to ‘use their own words’? International Journal for Educational Integrity1(1) (refereed) http://www.ojs.unisa.edu.au/index.php/IJEI/article/view/16/6
- McGowan, U. (2000). Can thesis writing be taught generically? Supporting self-help in post-graduates. Paper presented Quality in Postgraduate Research Conference, Making Ends Meet. Adelaide, 13 & 14 April http://www.qpr.edu.au/papersdatabase.php?orderBy=author&byYear=2000
- McGowan, U. & O’Regan, K. (2008) Avoiding Plagiarism: Achieving Academic Writing. Audio narrated resource for students and staff. The University of Adelaide CLPD website http://www.adelaide.edu.au/clpd/plagiarism/. Direct link accessed at: http://www.adelaide.edu.au/myuni/onlinelearning/learningmodules/avoidingPlagiarism/player.html
See Selected Papers and Reports on Plagiarism for a more comprehensive list.
Selected links to further plagiarism information sources on the University web
- Assessing Online, Preventing plagiarism, CLPD Online Learning website.
- Class and Assessment Policies, Plagiarism (UG), Business School, Faculty of Professions.
- Student Information, Plagiarism , School of Humanities, Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences.
Links to other external web resources
- ACODE Audit of Academic Integrity and Plagiarism Issues in Australia and New Zealand.
http://www.tlc.murdoch.edu.au/project/acode/index.html - Plagiarism - A good practice guide
by Jude Carroll and John Appleton. This is a JISC - Joint Information Systems Committee resource. - Deterring plagiarism in Higher Education
Oxford Centre for Language and Learning Development, Oxford Brooks University
