Turnitin/Plagiarism

First off let me say, being a college kid I have heard the plagiarism spill enough times that I can say it in my sleep. Moral of the story...DO NOT COPY AND PASTE.

I have used turnitin before this class, we used it in high school and I use it for another class here at USM. For teachers to be able to use turnitin and use it easily they must be familiar with this type of technology/website. I liked the idea of us doing a "copy and paste paper" to see how it looks on turnitin.com and how the report reads. I have never seen a turnitin report before, so that was interesting to see how to labels everything and links it to the source.

Every student at one time or another has plagiarized something. It is hard to avoid sometimes for two reasons. One, it is difficult to reword some facts and figures and two, siting sources is such a format pain that some students become frustrated over the fact every time they do source that it is always wrong. I fall into the second group. Siting, well any type of grammatical formatting, is my weakness. As a teacher told me in community college, "we are going to get past all these run on sentences even if it kills us both" But! Thanks to the wonders of Microsoft word, siting is a breeze now, still never fails i get something wrong.

All of this ties in with teachers promoting and modeling digital citizenship and responsibility to their students in the classroom. Because, if we as teachers do not teach the difference between right and wrong (original work or stolen work) students will lack the ethics of how to use technology appropriately.


To view my paper about plagiarism please click the link below

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B6YntfIp5iZeMTB1Nzh1QTJUdGs