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Published: 20.07.2018

The main idea of the exercise is to guide the student step by step from reading a paragraph to writing a paraphrase in own words. Directing questions assist this process. The exercise can be used in any context of teaching students to work with secondary literature and work with it properly. Poor a

Published: 13.07.2018

A total of 82 term papers and final theses at Freiburg University of Education, Freiburg, Germany, were examined 2014 – 2016 in terms of their intertextual quality. Of the 109 distinctions made between different types of intertextual errors that are known to us, 58 were detected in the student

Published: 21.06.2018

The exercise is intended to be used in the context of a learning unit on referencing, academic integrity or introducing research skills. The exercise simply consists of one slide. The example is a real life case which was anonymised. The real case ended up in court and Apple was sued by Lemon. The

Published: 21.06.2018

These questions are set to help the assessors to identify the signs of plagiarism. This guide should be used as a whole to identify any potential plagiaristic behaviour.

Published: 21.06.2018

Papers presented with intertextually incorrect passages must, first, be judged by decision makers and be identified as plagiarism. The next step would be the clarification of the severity of such a violation in relation to the institutional definitions of good academic practice. The criteria can aid

Published: 21.06.2018

In order to inform and educate students (and staff), we have collected these common rumours, myths/questions and drafted possible answers. We react to them in a FAQ-like scheme.

Published: 05.06.2018

Released: Feb 2013Features: 3:22 min, english subtitles Review: It’s a short humorous cartoon movie providing some reasons why we cite information sources in academia. In the story there are two kinds of students introduced: one that did plagiarism and one that get himself help

Published: 05.06.2018

Released: Apr 2012Features: 1:42 min, english subtitles Review: This short and simply made clip presents students reasons why to cite in their papers. The main message is that it helps doing papers more quickly and effectively. Starting with the problem of information overload it introduces five re

Published: 05.06.2018

Released: Feb 2010Features: 3:12 min, english substitles Review: This cartoon video is staged as a dialogue between two students. One explains the other one why using Google or Wikipedia for assignments is unacceptable and where he can get help or other information for an advanced research. The bas

Published: 05.06.2018

Released: 2015Features: 3:18 min, english subtitles, transcript available Review: In this learning video the transition officer of the University of Southampton is explaining to new students why referencing is a basic working technique and taken so seriously at universities. The video illuminates t