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SOUP Computer and Information Literacy Committee

Plagiarism Awareness

Plagiarism Awareness

Definition:  Accesses and uses information ethically and legally. 

The Association of College and Research Libraries includes the ethical and legal use of information in the Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education: The information literate student understands many of the economic, legal, and social issues surrounding the use of information and accesses and uses information ethically and legally.  

Performance Indicator:  The information literate student follows laws, regulations, institutional policies, and etiquette related to the access and use of information resources.

Outcomes Include:

a. Participates in electronic discussions following accepted practices (e.g. "Netiquette")
b. Uses approved passwords and other forms of ID for access to information resources
c. Complies with institutional policies on access to information resources
d. Preserves the integrity of information resources, equipment, systems and facilities
e. Legally obtains, stores, and disseminates text, data, images, or sounds
f. Demonstrates an understanding of what constitutes plagiarism and does not represent work attributable to others as his/her own
g. Demonstrates an understanding of institutional policies related to human subjects research

Performance Indicator:  The information literate student acknowledges the use of information sources in communicating the product or performance.

Outcomes Include:

a. Selects an appropriate documentation style and uses it consistently to cite sources
b. Posts permission granted notices, as needed, for copyrighted material

IVCC Academic Integrity Policy

http://catalog.ivcc.edu/pdf/ivcc-catalog-18-19.pdf p. 265-266

Plagiarism Resources

Respecting Intellectual Property/Blackboard SafeAssign LibGuide

Information Literacy table tents

Plagiarism Poster - Cheaters (in development) 

Plagiarism Poster - Halloween .jpg

Avoiding Plagiarism Tutorial (available upon request)

 

Respecting Intellectual Property (RIP) Team Members

Jason Beyer, Philosophy
Mark Brown, English
Mel Keiser, Art
Keith King, Biology
Betsy Klopcic, Psychology
Kirk Lockwood, English
Adam Oldaker, English
Pat Pence, Nursing
Tara Ptasnik, English
Jeff Spanbauer, History
Emily Vescogni, Learning Technologies
Frances Whaley, Library

Credits For Resources

Attribution for authorship

Please feel free to use and adapt our work for educational, non-commercial purposes, giving credit to Illinois Valley Community College Respecting Intellectual Property Project Team.

 

Last updated February 25, 2014.

Plagiarism Awareness Attribution

Respecting Intellectual Property Project 2011-2013 Credits

Team members

Jason Beyer, Philosophy
Mark Brown, English
Mel Keiser, Art
Keith King, Biology
Kirk Lockwood, English
Adam Oldaker, English
Pat Pence, Nursing
Tara Ptasnik, English
Jeff Spanbauer, History
Emily Vescogni, Learning Technologies
Frances Whaley, Library

 

Respecting Intellectual Property Project Credits

 

Resource

 

Primary Creator/Contributor(s)

Avoiding Plagiarism Tutorial Kirk Lockwood, Frances Whaley, Adam Oldaker, Tara Ptasnik
RIP Poster - Halloween Pat Pence, student Kelly Stefaniak, Adam Oldaker
RIP Poster - Cheaters Mark Brown, Mel Keiser, Pat Pence, Lori Cinotte
RIP/Safe Assign LibGuide Emily Vescogni
Information Literacy table tents Frances Whaley, student Anthony Bubb