Plagiarism

Research
Below are resources to read or to watch. Some are digital, some are not. Any with an asterisk are required for you to use. Otherwise, select 3 or more to read/view/absorb. Additionally, using appropriate college-level research skills, you must find a resource not on this list that gives you additional insights to this topic. A professional interview with an expert-in-the-field is an appropriate resource. (3 of mine and 1 of yours is the required minimum...feel free to use more resources...see me if you want to substitute some of yours for mine)
 * *Participate in the "Mission: Prevent Plagiarism" portion of Mission: Citizen. Refer back to your notes (you might even have an Inspiration chart with notes)
 * Plagiarism.org offers many resources on the topic...from definition to prevention and beyond. This website counts as one resource.
 * The [|Writing Program Administrators (WPA)] organization is a group of college-level writing program administrators, however, their information on plagiarism can be easily adapted to high school or middle school.
 * Explore one of the resources from Mission: Citizen (not a typical academic research source but appropriate for this topic)
 * [|EasyBib]
 * [|EFF's Copyright Curriculum]
 * [|Plagiarism.org]

Reflect
Create a reflection (write/record/document) in your personal digital classroom management kit that captures your reflections on your research. It should be apparent from your documentation that you actually took in information from the 4 sources, i.e. don't just list the book you read or the video you watched, but include some actual information from the resource. In your reflection you can agree and/or disagree with the author/creator(s) of each resource.

Resolve -- Proactive
Now that you have this information on this classroom management topic, what are you going to do with it? How will you apply it to how you want to manage your classroom? Describe one or more proactive approaches to this topic that you hope to incorporate into your classroom management.

Resolve -- Reactive
Now that you have this information on this classroom management topic, what are you going to do with it? Even though you have a great proactive approach to dealing with this topic, there will come the day when the unexpected situation will arise in this area. Using the given scenario or creating one of your own, describe one or more reactive approaches you might take. Be sure to document how/why you know this is an effective reactive technique (i.e., cite one or more of your research sources).

Scenario

 * You have a plagiarism policy in your syllabus. A quiet student that has always done good work for you has copied and pasted text from the Internet without citations in a paper in your class. The student claims s/he didn't know it was cheating and begs you for a second chance.