Proactively Preventing Plagiarism: How a Library Workshop Affects the Campus Culture presentation for the ACRL Spring Virtual Institute of 2012.

1. How a Library Workshop Affects the Campus Culture

2. Presenters
Breanne Kirsch- Lola Bradley-
Evening Public Services Reference Librarian at the
Librarian at the University University of South
of South Carolina Upstate Carolina Upstate

3. Poll 1
Do you have a plagiarism
workshop at your library?
A. Yes
B. No

4. Poll 2
Who teaches the plagiarism workshop
if there is one offered at your library?
A. Librarians
B. Writing Center or Student
Success Center
C. Someone Else

5. Beginning the Plagiarism Prevention Workshop
• Ellen Tillett-
• Director of Public Services, Sandor Teszler Library of
Wofford College
University of South Carolina Upstate Faculty:
• Jane Addison-
• Senior Instructor, Director of the Writing Center
• Mary Theokas-
• Assistant Vice Chancellor for the Student Success Center
• Laura Puckett-Boler-
• Dean of Students

6. What to Include
• What is plagiarism?
• Why is it important?
• Avoiding Plagiarism
• Paraphrasing
• Common Knowledge
• Citations

7. What is Plagiarism?

8. Why is it Important?

9. Avoiding Plagiarism

10. Paraphrasing

11. Common Knowledge

12. Citations

13. Pre-Test and Post-Test

14. Post-Test

15. Activities
1: Plagiarism or Not
2: Paraphrasing
3: Common Knowledge
4: Goblin Game

16. Plagiarism or Not
Student Z was interested in getting a good grade
on the final paper, but writing was always her
weakest point, so she found two anonymous
articles online, combined them, used several
paragraphs from each article, and presented it as
her work.
Using online anonymous articles is still considered
plagiarism.
It is not plagiarism because it was found on the Internet,
and the student mixed up the articles.

17. Paraphrasing
Read the following quotes and choose the best paraphrase from the
choices given below the quote.
“But perhaps the most heroic act of all was staying true to
Rowling’s vision. ‘Think about it,’ says Columbus. ‘If they had cast
American actors or put cheerleaders at Hogwarts—and all these
hideous ideas were indeed being pitched and discussed at the
time—Harry Potter would have been one movie, not a series. It
would have died.’” –Jensen, Jeff. “So Long, Harry.” Entertainment
Weekly 8 July 2011: 32-35. Print.
 The most heroic act of all in Harry Potter was staying true to Rowling’s
vision and not including things like American actors or cheerleaders at
Hogwarts.
 The Harry Potter movies almost cast American actors or put cheerleaders
at Hogwarts, but instead, stayed true to Rowling’s vision.
 Perhaps the most heroic act of all was staying true to Rowling’s vision and
not following hideous ideas like having cheerleaders at Hogwarts.
 The Harry Potter movies remained true to Rowling’s books and as a result,
became a bestselling series rather than a single, failed movie.

18. Common Knowledge
There are four seasons in the year.
 Common Knowledge Needs Citation
The motion sensors in virtual reality gloves affect telepresence
(illusion of being there).
 Common Knowledge Needs Citation
On September 11, 2001, New York City and Washington D.C.
suffered terrorist attacks.
 Common Knowledge Needs Citation
The speed of light is 3 X 10E8 meters per second.
 Common Knowledge Needs Citation

19. Goblin Game
Mary Broussard, Instructional Services Librarian at Lycoming
College, created the Goblin Threat Game.
 http://www.lycoming.edu/library/instruction/tutorials/plagiarismGame.html

20. Distance Education
Need for an online version for distance education
students.
Blackboard
Teaching Online Course
Working with the IT representatives, Tom Davis ,
Technology Training Specialist, and Cindy Jennings,
Director of Instructional Technologies

21. Poll 3
What kind of learning management system
software is used to support distance
education at your university/college?
A. Blackboard
B. Moodle
C. Adobe Connect 8
D. Other

22. Teaching Online Course
Design Best Practices
Managing an Online Course
Tools for Teaching Online
Distance Learning Library Support
Design and Accessibility
Copyright Considerations

23. Poll 4
Do you or your colleagues teach online
courses?
A. Yes
B. Planning to teach in the near future
C. Would love to do it, but it is not
possible yet
D. Not Possible

24. Workshop Design
Proactive vs. Reactive
Basic
Advanced
 Reactive
Remedial

25. Basic vs. Advanced
Basic
Lower –level courses, mostly Composition 1 &
Composition 2
Multiple-choice activities
Advanced
Growing needs
Upper-level and subject-specific courses
Summarizing the Basic Workshop
Individualized activities
Hands-on and group interaction

26. Advanced Workshop

27. Remedial Workshop
Referral from the Dean of Students
Two-hour length
Serves as a sanction for violating the Code of
Academic Integrity
Has not been advertised otherwise

28. Promoting the Workshops on Campus
Email each semester
Faculty meetings
Library guide for faculty
“Word of mouth”
Year Face-to- Online Number of
Face Classes Classes Students
2010 Fall 4 0 51
2011 Spring 5 0 70
2011 Fall 17 4 304
2012 Spring 17 5 477

29. Collaboration Outside the University
31 High School Students from the Spartanburg Day
School
8 Home School Students from the South Carolina
Connections Academy

30. Collaborating with Our Colleagues
Updates at the Library Management Meeting
Statistics each semester
Word of encouragement
Offering opportunities to teach a workshop
Working with the Bibliographic Instruction
Coordinator

31. What Didn’t Work
 “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything
new.” - Albert Einstein
Marketing workshop to students:
Posters
Bookmarks
However:
The Writing Center – 2 students signed up for the
workshop
Interview with the student newspaper Carolinian

32. Outcomes and the Future of the Workshops
Success has created a growing demand
Requests for Fall
Creating awareness
Continuing collaboration

33. Bibliography
 Madray, Amrita. “The Anatomy of a Plagiarism Initiative: One Library’s
Campus Collaboration,” Public Services Quarterly, 4, no. 2 (2008): 111-25.
 Shepley, Susan E. “Building a Virtual Campus: Librarians as Collaborators in
Online Course Development and Learning,” Journal of Library
Administration, 49, no. 1-2 (2009): 89-95.
 Wolfe, Judith A., Ted Naylor, and Jeanetta Drueke. “The Role of the
Academic Reference Librarian in the Learning Commons,” Reference &
Services Quarterly, 50, no. 2 (2010): 108-13.
 Miller, Robert, Edward O’Donnell, Neal Pomea, Joseph Rawson, Ryan
Shepard, and Cynthia Thomas. “Library-Lead Faculty Workshops: Helping
Distance Educators Meet Information Literacy Goals in the Online
Classroom,” Journal of Library Administration, 50, no. 7-8 (2010): 830-56.

34. Thank You!
Breanne Kirsch- Lola Bradley-
Evening Public Services Reference Librarian at
Librarian at the University the University of South
of South Carolina Upstate, Carolina Upstate,
bkirsch@uscupstate.edu lbradley@uscupstate.edu
864-503-5613 864-503-5006