Webster University is committed to maintaining academic integrity through education, prevention, and ethical integrity. Classroom assignments are opportunities for students to find, learn, and reflect on knowledge and to present their own ideas and interpretation of that knowledge. It is the responsibility of the student live up to academic standards, but there is a great deal that an instructor can do to prevent plagiarism, including informing students of their responsibilities, creating assignments that make plagiarism an ineffective solution, and using instances of plagiarism as learning opportunities for students.
The following are resources that you should be aware of as you begin incorporating plagiarism prevention measures into your courses.
Plagiarism Resources for Faculty
The purpose of this web site is to provide faculty with the information they need to discourage plagiarism, including resources for students, information on designing plagiarism resistant assignments, and resources for detecting plagiarism in assignments. Additionally, you will find Webster's policy on plagiarism, and a description of what to do to deal with an instance of plagiarism.
Student Guide to Avoiding Plagiarism
This Student Guide to Avoiding Plagiarism is intended to provide information and resources to help students learn how to complete your course work without plagiarizing. The site includes:
Turnitin
Instructors can accept assignments via Turnitin (in WorldClassRoom) as an opportunity for students to learn about their own academic writing practices by giving them opportunities to review “Originality Reports” to correct potential plagiarism before instructor review. Webster’s Turnitin support site includes:
The Writing Assistance Page
Every class has a link to the Writing Assistance page in the WorldClassRoom course home page. This page, available to students whether faculty make use of WorldClassRoom or not, includes: