- 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