On Demand Write From Wrong: Strategies for Addressing Student Plagiarism

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Presenter: Barry Gilmore

Every teacher dreads it—the plagiarized paper, the confrontation with a student, the demise of trust and learning. Worse still, academic dishonesty is on the rise; plagiarism and cheating proliferate as schools move toward an online future, with more than half of students admitting to online cheating. This presentation, while recognizing the problem, will not focus on the crime of plagiarism but on strategies for prevention and aspects of school and classroom culture that can reduce or eliminate student cheating. We’ll also reconsider our writing prompts with the goal of discovering how we can stop plagiarism before it happens rather than merely reacting to it after the fact.
During this session, we’ll aim to learn strategies that help students:

Desire to write original work;
Build research and note-taking skills that will help them to avoid the need to plagiarize;
Evaluate their own study habits and pressures to avoid bad decision-making.

Grade Level(s): Secondary