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Teaching Citations as Part of the Writing Process: Student Voices

January 17, 2019

by Lauren Fleming, Undergraduate English Major Why do students violate University academic integrity policies? As an English major, I began to wonder about the root of this campus-wide issue. I am often subject to the woes of my non-English-major-but-still-have-writing-assignments peers and have noticed one common denominator: interactions with quotations and citations. Often, a conversation might go like this: Friend: My professor gave me my assignment back and said the citations were wrong, but I am allowed fix them and give […]

Solving the Patchwriting Problem, Part 3: Teaching Paraphrasing/Avoiding Patchwriting

January 16, 2019

by Karen Hollingsworth Gardiner, College of Arts & Sciences Merriam-Webster.org, considering whether or not “patchwriting” should be added to the dictionary, suggests that the concept is a gray area, a sort of “less judgmental midpoint that can be seen as a ‘teachable moment’ rather than an all-or-nothing accusation of plagiarism.” This is especially the case with writing that is still at the draft stage of the writing process, writing in progress but not yet turned in for a grade. See, […]

Solving the Patchwriting Problem, Part 2: What IS the Patchwriting Problem?

January 16, 2019

by Karen Hollingsworth Gardiner, College of Arts & Sciences In a previous post, “What is Patchwriting?” I included an early definition by Rebecca Moore Howard, who has continued to research and write about this issue for over twenty-five years. Her interest in plagiarism and student citation practices led her to conduct the seminal 2010-2013 Citation Project, a study of the citation practices of 174 first-year students from 16 colleges and universities across the US. Sandra Jamieson (Director of the Writing […]