Whether you teach in the English Department or in any one of the other fine departments at Towson University, at some point you may have struggled with the issue of plagiarism: how to design assignments to prevent it, how to convince students not to do it, how to deal with it when it occurs. No matter what we do, however, it seems that students? unfamiliarity with what constitutes plagiarism, their lack of confidence in their own ideas, and their issues of poor time management may cause them to turn to Google for what they may see as an easy way to ?write? a paper.
This session will address strategies to help students avoid plagiarizing as well as introduce the many functions of the Safe Assign feature on Blackboard, a tool designed to identify plagiarized work.
Date: Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Time: 4:30 PM for refreshments; 5 PM ? 6:30 PM for discussion and demonstration.
Place: CLA Writing Center (LA 5330) for refreshments /LA 5331 for a demonstration of this program.
Please RSVP to Barbara Bass in the English Department if you are planning on attending at {bbass@towson.edu} or call 410-704-4573
