Fill in the correct answer to the questions pertaining to this tutorial.

1.  A _________________assignment is particularized, asks for multiple texts, is goal-driven, and more integrated. 

2. An _________________assignment is generalized, requests a single text, is format driven, and is less integrated. 

3.  Before you consider high-stakes, assessment-oriented assignments, consider ______________________ designed to encourage learning.

4.  Starting with _____________ can help us to create assignments that engage students and make it difficult and unnecessary for them to plagiarize. 

5.  Make sure the assignments are ________ by specific intellectual goals in your course.

6.  Students plagiarize because they are _____________.

7.  A student hires someone else to write his/her paper.  Is this plagiarism? _________

8.  An online resource for people concerned with the growing problem of internet plagiarism, designed to provide the latest information on online plagiarism is called________________

9.  Using _____________ assignments is one way to prevent plagiarizing by a student.

10. Adding creativity and imagination to our assignments not only engages students and helps them _________ their work.

Answers:

1. learning-oriented:  It is difficult for a student to submit others' work, there is less of a reason to do so, and 'learning' is the outcome.

2. assessment-oriented

3. low(er)-stakes assignments: Such assignments are driven by specific intellectual goals in your course, they tend to be linked well to your course material. They are also easier to evaluate and are very difficult to plagiarize.

4. learning goals. Students appreciate knowing what they are expected to learn, can focus on the goals during the length of the course, and learn the information as their assignments are linked to the goals by the instructor repeatedly.

5. driven. Each assignment should relate back to a goal. Students should have permission to ask "so what?" when you assign something and you should always be able to say that they are moving toward meeting a specific goal. Students learn better when the information and work is meaningful.

6. for many reasons. Maybe they are afraid of the idea of researching a topic because they don't know how. Perhaps they don't now how to cite a resource/reference. Many also work, have families, and time becomes an issue, and 'cut and paste' is a quick way to put together a paper. There are a variety of reasons, none of them make plagiarizing 'ok', of course.

7. yes. hiring someone to write your paper for you if an example of plagiarism. There are some actions that can almost unquestionably be labeled plagiarism. Some other examples include buying, stealing, or borrowing a paper (including, of course, copying an entire paper or article from the Web); hiring someone to write your paper for you; and copying large sections of text from a source without quotation marks or proper citation. There are 'gray' areas, though: some of these include using the words of a source too closely when paraphrasing (where quotation marks should have been used) or building on someone's ideas without citing their spoken or written work. (http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/589/02/)

8. turnitin.com (http://www.turnitin.com/static/plagiarism.html) This is a resource for educators and students. Instructors can submit student papers to determine if the work is original. Students can submit papers for feedback and determine if their work contains plagiarized material. This tool can be a prevention tool for instructors to tell students about, and a teaching tool for students to learn about what is honest and what is plagiarized work.

9. cases and scenarios. Other suggestions included using multi-modal assignments, episodic or multi-staged tasks, using class specific assignments, and asking for  “parallel texts” in which students reflect on their papers and processes.

10. own. Students take ownership of their work and are more apt to express themselves in what they write than use material form another person or source dishonestly.

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