• Discuss academic integrity at the beginning and throughout of the course
• Model academic integrity- cite your sources and demonstrate respect for Intellectual Property
• Demonstrate how collaboration works within academic integrity
• Give clear instructions and examples about how you want students to engage with sources
• Don’t use the same assignment quarter after quarter
• Go through assignments in detail in both lecture and course materials
• Create explicit guidelines for how to cite material
• Frame those guidelines as understanding where credit is due, rather than cheating vs. not cheating
• Give students enough time to complete the assignment
• Be clear about each assignments' purpose
• Provide steps along the way
• Model how they should take notes/ comment code
• Avoid broad, open-ended topics: ask narrow questions that students can’t find the answer to online
• Engage students in meta-thinking about how to think within their discipline, what the scholarly process or their industry standards looks like, and why acknowledgement matters
• Encourage students to name and thank the people who helped them develop their ideas
• Don’t take it personally if students plagiarize despite your careful instruction
• Do one example for them, do one together, have them do one on their own
• Guide students toward a research question by asking the what confused or intrigued them about the text and by modeling the asking of questions you don’t know the answer to
• Rather than restating what other scholars say, have students use scholars’ ideas to support their own inquiry
• Check in on students along the way by having them share parts of their writing process with the class
• Reach out to struggling students early
• Grade with a rubric that helps you identify what students’ issues are
• Make rubrics explicit and align them with the learning outcomes you want

Adapted from Beyond Plagiarism: Best Practices for the Responsible Use of Sources- Preventing Plagiarism University of Michigan