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From "Burdick, Dakin Robert" <burdickd@indiana.edu> Sent Tuesday, May 8, 2007 7:02 am Subject RE: Plagiarism Doug Deal made two insightful points regarding plagiarism. First, he suggests we are not modeling scholarly research when we use textbooks that obscure the scholarship behind them, and when we construct lectures based on an imperfect understanding of most of the periods (at least at the beginning lecturer stage). Second, he notes that society as a whole is much more pragmatic and is not terribly strict about borrowing and building on the work of others. My solution to this has been to train students to be critical readers and emphasize undergraduate research and writing so they can view the texts as an author might. This past semester the students' weekly journals analyzed the text (William Chafe's America since 1945) and class discussions included an analysis of each chapter and what it included and excluded. Along with their independent research for their term papers, I think these journals did some good, and the students become slightly more sophisticated in their reading. Most of my students are not going to become historians, but if they read more critically, I will be content. Take care, Dakin Burdick, Ph.D. Instructional Design Specialist Office for Professional Development University Library, Room 1125 Indianapolis, IN 46202 phone: (317) 278-0585 fax: (317) 278-0241 email: burdickd@iupui.edu
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