Encouraging Academic Honesty in Student Work

This paper presents techniques for teaching students to recognize and avoid plagiarism. Though some students are deliberately deceitful and/or lazy, most students want to do the right thing but may need instruction and encouragement to do so. Many simply lack the knowledge or preparation needed to recognize and avoid plagiarism. Moreover, faculty members often provide insufficient direction and often either fail to take steps to recognize plagiarism or to hold students accountable for plagiarism when it is evident. No matter what the reason for the problem, the instructor has a responsibility to encourage academic honesty in student work. Literature Review Once a side note in university honor codes, plagiarism has increasingly become a major issue in the academic careers of not only students but also faculty (Davis, Grover, Becke