SCHOOL OF EDUCATION: Plagiarism Add-ins

In a research paper, you have to come up with your own original ideas while at the same time making reference to work that's already been done by others. But how can you tell where their ideas end and your own begin?

Tools like Turnitin Draft Coach helps you ensure original writing and proper citations before handing in your final version

Originality reports use the power of Google Search to help students properly integrate external inspiration into their writing – while making it easy for instructors to check for potential plagiarism.

This study explores the content of academic support classes delivered to postgraduate students at BUiD between January and December 2011, and shows how teaching language focused academic literacy skills were insufficient to develop students’ critical writing skills and demonstrates how development of pedagogy based on teaching critical reading skills as a threshold concept can help students enhance analytical and critical writing skills.

When many students first start learning about plagiarism and citation, one of the first questions they often ask is, "How Similar is too similar"?

The term “public domain” is one of the most misunderstood terms when it relates to copyright, plagiarism and citation.
The term public domain has a very specific meaning. In short, it is used to denote works that have no copyright protection, meaning that they can be used freely without permission from the creator or another rightsholder.