professional practice case study
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The document discusses the causes and consequences of plagiarism, highlighting how it can damage a student's academic and professional reputation. Factors leading to plagiarism include fear of failure, poor time management, and perceptions of the assignment's importance. To discourage plagiarism, it suggests limiting assignment topics, enforcing specific features, utilizing various resources, and implementing a structured writing process with scheduled submissions.
professional practice case study
- 1. Assignment 3 What might alert you to the suspicion of plagiarism? Destroyed Student Reputation Destroyed Professional Reputation Destroyed Academic Reputation What might have led the student to plagiarise? Students may fear failure or fear taking risks in their own work. Students may have poortime-management skills or they may plan poorly for the time and effort required for research-based writing, and believe they have no choice but to plagiarize. Students may view the course, the assignment, the conventions of academic documentation, or the consequences of cheating as unimportant. Teachers may present students with assignments so generic or unparticularized that students may believe they are justified in looking for canned responses. Instructors and institutions may fail to report cheating when it does occur, or may not enforce appropriate penalties. What steps could you take to discourage students from plagiarising? Limit assignments to a few specific topics. Assign particular features, like “compare and contrast” or personal observation. Insist that students use both online and offline resources. Combine writing assignments with other related tasks; for example, ask students to keep a journal of the writing process in which they discuss their research, explore the topic and thesis, and even discuss any challenges they faced while completing the assignment.
- 2. Set a schedule whereby students submit an outline, the introduction, portions of the text, research summaries, conclusions etc., by a certain date. Students could work on each of these sections in peer review groups. What reflections do you have on this case that might develop your professional practice? Please keep me informed about your actions against plagiarism.