Teaching about Good Writing

Classroom Resources for Teaching about Good Writing and Avoiding Plagiarism:

• Handouts & Exercises:

  • Mythbusters: The Truth about Quotations and Citations in Academic Papers

  • Types of Plagiarism

  • Exercise 1: How to Write and Cite a Good Paper

    • Ideas for using this exercise

    • Base text for exercise

    • Base text with meta-comments

  • Exercise 2: Identifying Plagiarism

    • Identifying Plagiarism

    • Key

  • Exercise 3: Teaching Students to Avoid Plagiarism by Teaching Active Reading Skills

  • Plagiarism: Big trouble that's easy to avoid

• Videos

  • A Difficult Conversation (Xtranormal: a professor confronts a student about plagiarism)

  • Don't Believe Everything You Hear (Xtranormal: a student asks for help with citations)

  • "Plagiarism: Stopping word thieves" (CBS; 10/21/12)

  • "Et Plagieringseventyr" (University of Bergen; make sure to enable subtitles)

  • "Plagiarism" (Murdoch University Dubai)

• Presentations

  • Plagiarism Rehabilitation in the Writing Center (Oakland University) (prezi)

  • Plagiarism (by Elisabeth Harris) (prezi)

  • What does Turnitin actually do?(PowerPoint)

• Websites

  • CBB Plagiarism Resource Site (Colby, Bates, Bowdoin): Common Types of Plagiarism//Plagiarism Tutorial//Plagiarism Self-test

  • Purdue OWL: Avoiding Plagiarism