Category: plagiarism

“Give credit where it’s due”: How to Approach Plagiarism in the Classroom

The following are some thoughts for a presentation I and a colleague did about plagiarism for our university’s professional development. We wanted, through this presentation, to highlight our experiences as composition teachers with over 30 years of combined experience and how we need to, across disciplines, think about plagiarism. This is not exhaustive, and we do not deal with AI. However, we do think … Read More “Give credit where it’s due”: How to Approach Plagiarism in the Classroom

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Plagiarism in Jennine Capó Crucet’s “Make Your Home Among Strangers”

Last year in my LES Studies class I taught Jennine Capó Crucet’s My Time Among the Whites: Notes from an Unfinished Education which led me to read her debut novel Make Your Home Among Strangers and teach it in my Multicultural American Literature class. This novel contains a lot, and even in my lectures, I cannot cover everything within the novel. My class is … Read More Plagiarism in Jennine Capó Crucet’s “Make Your Home Among Strangers”

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Academia, How We Should Respond to Student Writing

Last Thursday, Tiffany Martinez, a first generation Latina college student at Suffolk University, posted “Academia, Love Me Back” on her blog. The post, written by the McNair Fellow, describes how a professor accused her or plagiarism for using the transition word “hence” and called her out during class. The teacher, in front of the class, told her “This is not your language,” and on … Read More Academia, How We Should Respond to Student Writing