John Dawes from the University of South Australia noted that plagiarism is endemic among students (with an estimate of 60% in the US), but also that the educational no-cheating experts and subject specialist academics don’t really speak the same language. To help address this, he published a concise 17 page list of 14 recommendations “Practical prevention of Plagiarism for University faculty & management – 14 tactics” on the SSRN-platform.
Some of them are simple and maybe obvious to some: “If you make ‘originality’ a formal criterion, you can always use that to downgrade papers that look suspiciously like content found on the internet.” Others require some savviness with digital learning platforms: require students to work in shareable documents, where they know their professor can see their work-in-progress.
Anyway, it seems like a useful checking list: even if the majority of your faculty already applies most tactics, it might help to bring straggling minority on board as well.
