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Preventing Plagiarism
Description:
This lesson is designed to teach students the importance of academic integrity. Furthermore, it will provide them with helpful tools/skills to help them maintain their academic integrity as they work on a research project.
Goals & Objectives:

Information Literacy Skill/Instructional Goals:

  1. LWDAT create a framework for organizing information found (see notes     template).
  2. LWDAT save information for potential future use.
  3. LWDAT correctly credit all information used.     

Learning Objectives:

  1. Students will use note-taking template during research
  2. Students will correctly document/cite all sources used during research.

Motivational Goals:

  1. to establish the importance of information literacy standards, specifically academic integrity
  2. to gain confidence in research skills, specifically quoting, citing, paraphrasing, summarizing, source documentation and citation
Materials & Sources:
PowerPoint on Plagiarism

Notetaking Template
Procedures:
Procedures (use PowerPoint to support the following):

Introduction/Anticipatory Set
1. Opening screen of PowerPoint
2. Song: "Lonely" by Akon
3. Discussion

Body/Steps
1. Define Plagiarism
2. 2 Types
3. Excuses
4. Why care?
5. Consequences
6. How to avoid it
7. Works cited/in document citation

Conclusion/Assessment
1. Landmark site
2. Your paper/notetaking sheet
3. Grading -teacher policy?
Assessment:
Teacher/LMS will evaluate student performance as they scan student notes and grade final products. Source citation will be included in rubric created for product asssessment.
Sources:
Akon. “Lonely.” Trouble. Universal Records, 2004;

Lewis, Rachel. "What is plagiarism?." Library Media Center.
Skaneateles High School, Skaneateles. 2005;

McKenzie, Jamie. Beyond Technology: Questioning, Research and the Information Literate School. Bellingham: FNO Press, 2000;

Microsoft Clipart;

Warlick, David. "Landmarks Citation Machine." Landmarks Citation Machine. 2004. The Landmark Project. 19 Jul. 2005 http://citationmachine.net/).
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Presented By: Laurie LeFever
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