Plagiarism

IMO, the best way to enable students to avoid the easy option of plagiarism is to pose a question that requires personal input using higher order thinking skills and which cannot be answered by copy-and-paste. Jamie McKenzie wrote about this in 1997 - The Question is the Answer @http://fno.org/oct97/question.html

More recently, Joy McGregor and Kirsty Williamson have done extensive research and they found that the more a student copied, the better the mark they received. You can read more in David Loertscher has also addressed the issue in his action research "Ban Those Bird Units" @http://books.google.com.au/books/about/Ban_those_bird_units.html?id=sJmsAQAACAAJ  &redir_esc=y
 * Williamson, Kirsty, Joy McGregor, Alyson Archibald, and Jen Sullivan. (2007). Information Seeking and Use by Secondary Students: The Link between Good Practice and the Avoidance of Plagiarism <@http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/aasl/aaslpubsandjournals/slmrb/slmrcontents/v olume10/williamson_informationseeking.cfm> School Library Media Research 10 {Available at @http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/aasl/aaslpubsandjournals/slmrb/slmrcontents/vo lume10/williamson_informationseeking.cfm} <@http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/aasl/aaslpubsandjournals/slmrb/slmrcontents/v olume10/williamson_informationseeking.cfm%7d> * Williamson, Kirsty, and McGregor, Joy. (2006). Information use and secondary school students: a model for understanding plagiarism. Information Research 12 (1) paper 288. [Available at http://InformationR.net/ir/12-1/paper288.html] * McGregor, Joy H., and Williamson, Kirsty. (2005). Appropriate use of information at the secondary school level: Understanding and avoiding plagiarism. Library <@http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=JournalURL&_cdi=6577&_auth=y&_acct=C00 0053903&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=1588505&md5=3cd353720ecab4703d469e90522 ab687> & Information Science Research 27, no 4 <@http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=IssueURL&_tockey=%23TOC%236577%232005% 23999729995%23611862%23FLA%23&_auth=y&view=c&_acct=C000053903&_version=1&_urlVer sion=0&_userid=1588505&md5=a8e9b2544d3149371527aff4c72af5e7> (Autumn): 496-512.