Gilmore, Barry

A guide to helping students understand what plagarism is and how to avoid it, including strategies for using search engines and documentating their results, summarizing and paraphrasing, learning MLA and APA citation, and understanding what common knowledge is and is not.

A collection of classroom-tested techniques to stimulate literature conversations and increase student involvement, and contains sample activities, prompts, and reproducible surveys to help plan discussions.

Presents a discussion on plagiarism for educators that focuses on possible causes that would lead students to plagiarize their work, ways to detect plagiarism, and also how to educate students to understand the seriousness of the crime.