Faculty Resources & Services - Terre Haute

A series of 7 modules with videos and tutorials intended to enhance information literacy and critical thinking:

• Give students clearly written assignment sheets that explain your expectations in regards to documentation (what style you wish them to use, etc.)
• Provide a class visit from the Library to discussion citation methods and strategies
• Provide a lesson on plagiarism; require students to complete the Credo Instruct information literacy tutorial modules
• Assign students to research and write a short paper on plagiarism
• Require personal reflection as part of the assignment
• Direct students to sites that explain paraphrasing and citing; recommend usage of helpful research citation and research management platforms like NoodleTools or build an understanding of these tools into classroom instruction
• Offer to help (for example, look at drafts or outlines)
• Refer students to tutoring at the Learning Resource Center
• Stagger due dates for different parts of a paper.  For example, make the bibliography due a week before the final paper.  Do not allow deviation from the due dates or last minute topic changes.
• Specify what materials students can use (for example, two Internet sources, three journal articles, etc.) or assign two or three smaller papers throughout the term rather than a single large one
• Assign narrowly focused topics rather than broad general ones or ask students to write about current events as they relate to class materials
• Change the paper topics each time the course is offered.  This practice will prevent students from appropriating work done by former students
• Advise students in advance that you will randomly check sources in bibliographies, Works Cited, or References pages
• Request that students hand in copies of their sources or a photocopied page from the sources cited in their paper, or include an annotated bibliography as part of the assignment, or tell students that they can only use references that have been published within the last five years
• Require students to hand in notes or outlines with their paper because you are looking for evidence or original thought or thought progression
• Use SafeAssign, Turnitin, or other college provided plagiarism prevention platforms, which may serve as a deterrent and will remind students that plagiarism is an issue