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1、DefiningandAvoidingPlagiarism:TheWPAStatementonBestPracticesDownloadaPDFversionofthisdocument.Plagiarismhasalwaysconcernedteachersandadministrators,whowantstudents’worktorepresenttheirowneffortsandtoreflecttheoutcomesoftheirlearning.However,withtheadventoftheInternetand
2、easyaccesstoalmostlimitlesswrittenmaterialoneveryconceivabletopic,suspicionofstudentplagiarismhasbeguntoaffectteachersatalllevels,attimesdivertingthemfromtheworkofdevelopingstudents’writing,reading,andcriticalthinkingabilities.Thisstatementrespondstothegrowingeducationa
3、lconcernsaboutplagiarisminfourways:bydefiningplagiarism;bysuggestingsomeofthecausesofplagiarism;byproposingasetofresponsibilities(forstudents,teachers,andadministrators)toaddresstheproblemofplagiarism;andbyrecommendingasetofpracticesforteachingandlearningthatcansignific
4、antlyreducethelikelihoodofplagiarism.Thestatementisintendedtoprovidehelpfulsuggestionsandclarificationssothatinstructors,administrators,andstudentscanworktogethermoreeffectivelyinsupportofexcellenceinteachingandlearning.WhatIsPlagiarism?Ininstructionalsettings,plagiaris
5、misamultifacetedandethicallycomplexproblem.However,ifanydefinitionofplagiarismistobehelpfultoadministrators,faculty,andstudents,itneedstobeassimpleanddirectaspossiblewithinthecontextforwhichitisintended.Definition:Inaninstructionalsetting,plagiarismoccurswhenawriterdelib
6、eratelyusessomeoneelse’slanguage,ideas,orotheroriginal(notcommon-knowledge)materialwithoutacknowledgingitssource.Thisdefinitionappliestotextspublishedinprintoron-line,tomanuscripts,andtotheworkofotherstudentwriters.Mostcurrentdiscussionsofplagiarismfailtodistinguishbetw
7、een:1.submittingsomeoneelse’stextasone’sownorattemptingtoblurthelinebetweenone’sownideasorwordsandthoseborrowedfromanothersource,and2.carelesslyorinadequatelycitingideasandwordsborrowedfromanothersource.Suchdiscussionsconflateplagiarismwiththemisuseofsources.Ethicalwrite
8、rsmakeeveryefforttoacknowledgesourcesfullyandappropriatelyinaccordancewiththecontextsandgenresoftheirwr