Hi Tania,
Thanks for drawing attention to this.
Karen Smith
Tania S. Smith wrote:
> Hi colleagues. Here's an intriguing paper at the upcoming Congress in
> Saskatoon that CASLL members may be interested in reading online, or
> attending. It's being presented at the meetings of the Canadian
> Society for the Study of Higher Education.
>
> Plagiarism and Writing Assessment
>
> Kirk McDermid,
>
> Dept. of Philosophy & Religion,
>
> Montclair State University
>
>
>
> /Abstract: /Arguments discouraging plagiarism typically focus on the
> ethical basis for crediting authorship, or the risk. But students are
> often unimpressed, especially when the stakes are high: the rewards
> can always potentially outweigh the risks. I argue that the problem
> with most such arguments is their implicit or explicit /affirmation/
> of plagiarism itself: they acknowledge that it is /an effective
> tactic/. To effectively reduce plagiarism, and restore the intent and
> purpose of student writing, we need to adopt philosophies of writing
> assessment that establish plagiarism as an /ineffective/ tool, rather
> than a risky-but-effective one.
>
>
> The full paper is posted online at
> http://umanitoba.ca/outreach/csshe/Conf/conf.html click on "McDermid"
>
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