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November 11, 2009, 2:00 pm
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5 Responses to Open Thread Wednesday!
Derrick - November 11, 2009 at 7:48 pm
You might be interested in this site: http://www.onefingerdiscount.com/
On here, I’d note a .pdf and bibliography manager named “Selenium.” This looks (haven’t downloaded a trial) a bit more humanities-friendly than Papers (http://mekentosj.com/papers/). Has anyone used it? How does it compare to Endnote or Zotero?
William Patrick Wend - November 11, 2009 at 7:54 pm
I noticed in this thread the suggestion to start a Facebook page for your classes (I am going to start a Twitter account next semester). Has anyone done this yet? How did it work out? Some of my students have added me on social networks, but I haven’t really interacted via them with them yet much.
Tria Wood - November 13, 2009 at 12:30 pm
Do any of you teaching writing classes (especially Freshman Comp) deal with inadvertent plagiarism (student copies a sentence or three from a source without bothering with quotation marks, either through ignorance or poor note-taking practices) differently than what is obviously intentional plagiarism (student turns in a paper that is largely copied from another source or sources such as a “free essays” site)? I’m seeing much more of this than I expected all of a sudden, and am wondering what works and makes the most pedagogical sense. I tend to cut the former some slack, demanding a rewrite and a substantial loss of points in lieu of just giving the paper an outright zero, while of course I’d be tougher on the latter (which I have yet to see happen, though of course I know it happens). What do you do in each case, or do you treat these cases at all differently? /braces self/
Nels - November 13, 2009 at 2:38 pm
Tria, that’s what is generally called “patchingwriting,” and Becky Howard has a bibliography about it here (from 2007):
http://wrt-howard.syr.edu/Bibs/Patchwriting.htm
When I have caught cases that truly seem like patchwriting, I sometimes allow the paper to be written or sometimes fail the paper. It depends on other circumstances. A lot of times, it’s really small, so I let them rewrite and fic it. What I love are those who do this but have all the sources in the bibliography and think that’s enough.
William Patrick Wend - November 14, 2009 at 10:27 am
Tria-
I had a similar experience with my Comp I class and their first papers. What I did was let them resubmit it with fixed citations/works cited. After that I consider it plagiarism. Most handed in a fixed version, but sadly a number of students did not which then became a 0/15. In Comp I I am willing to cut some slack, but once we have gone over it in class and I have given out a handout I don’t feel as merciful.