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Northwestern Health Sciences University

Library Instruction Guide

A guide to library instruction including topics that can be covered in class and a list of recommended tutorials based on topic area.

Avoiding Plagiarism

Students often have a limited idea of what plagiarism is. For many, it's all about not copying and pasting text unless they're quoting.  They need to have the following ideas reinforced:

  • The need to paraphrase/summarize
  • The need to not rely on quoting too much
  • Make sure information is cited whether it's paraphrased, summarized or quoted

Avoiding Plagiarism Tutorial:
This tutorial covers plagiarism and how students can avoid running into trouble with plagiarism.  
LINKhttps://view.genial.ly/624f48e1fd026e0012160d66

If you'd like an embedded code or SCORM file, please contact the library. 

Paraphrasing, Summarizing, and Citing

Paraphrasing:

If you'd like to give your students further work on paraphrasing, I like the University of Indiana's plagiarism tutorial. The lessons go from beginning to advanced and each lesson has practice tests.  The tests show takers the original source material and the student version.  Takers need to determine whether or not the student version is plagiarism.

Overall Tutorials
Basic Test
Novice Test
Intermediate Test
Advanced Test
Expert Test
Sample Paper showing how the author avoided plagiarism

Quoting, Paraphrasing & Summarizing

Video Tutorial:  A 2 minute video describing the differences between each technique

Citing: 

Please check the "I want my students to write better citations" for citation tools.

Check our Citation Guide on the Writing & Citing LibGuide


 

Library Books on Plagiarism