Avoiding Plagiarism

Ann Barlow

Ketso is a hands-on kit for creative groupwork

Aims of the session • To gain an understanding of plagiarism • To consider why people plagiarise • To identify ways to avoid plagiarism • To learn from each other

How Ketso works Instructions & Clarifications

Ketso uses ‘leaves’ to capture people’s ideas

Write or draw one idea per leaf, write so others can read

Always use the ‘magic pens’ provided

If an idea doesn’t fit – use more than one leaf!

Coloured leaves for different questions (write on the coloured side)

Think then share

time on your OWN to develop ideas before sharing & discussing them

Each stage lasts about 10 minutes

Bell to move to next stage – first ring person talking has a moment to finish what saying

Avoiding plagiarism – preview of what the different colours mean • What is plagiarism ?

• Why does plagiarism happen?

• How can we avoid plagiarism?

First stage – What is plagiarism?

Brown Leaves • • What do you understand by plagiarism? Think about it in different contexts.

How might you (or your supervisor) recognise it?

Now unfold the felt

Move the centrepiece to the centre of the felt, this is the focus of the workshop

Branches provide themes (There are blanks for ideas that don’t fit these themes and new, emerging themes)

Branches • • • • •

Experimental work Academic papers and communications Coding Online communication and social media Oral presentation

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Blank

–for themes that emerge from discussion / cross cutting ideas

Take it in turns to read out your ideas – one person reads one idea at a time…

… going around the circle. Place leaves on the felt as you read them out

Discuss the ideas after they are all on the felt

Point leaves at branches

Cluster similar ideas

Plagiarism – University of Huddersfield • • • Reproduction of published or unpublished (eg. work of another student or your own work) material without acknowledgement of the author or source; Presenting information from electronic sources such as the internet without acknowledgement of the source; Paraphrasing by, for instance, substituting a few words or phrases or altering the order of presentation of another person's work, or linking unacknowledged sentences or phrases with words of one's own (University of Huddersfield Students’ Handbook of Regulations)

Next stage – Why plagiarise?

Grey Leaves • • Why do people plagiarise?

If you have ever plagiarised, why did you do so?

Thinking outside the box

Next stage – Avoiding plagiarism Green Leaves • • What can you do to make sure that you avoid plagiarism?

Be creative 

Next stage – Table Swap

Table Swap – icons and comments cards • • What is important?

Point the exclamation icons at the ideas you think are important Write why it’s important on a white comments card Use the white comments cards for other questions or comments too

Next stage – Back on your own table

More Green Leaves • Are there any more green leaves you’d like to add?

Filtering ideas – what moves us forward?

• Prioritise - take a yellow tick icon each • Place it by the key idea on your Ketso that you think would really help take things forward for you

Closing – Feedback & Questions • Each table – please share one idea from the workshop that struck you as particularly interesting or important • Any final questions or comments?

• Thank you!