Information Searching
Information literacy is essential in the 21st century. Here are ressources to help you choose relevant, valid and quality sources.
- Université Laval – Assess your sources
- Université de Genève – Infotrack – Training for information literacy skills
- Cégep de Granby Haite Yamaska – Assess your sources in 8 simple questions
- Association of college and research library – Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education
Writing
Need help to write?
- The visual communication guide – Ressources for writing if you need help to organize and to punctuate.
Indicate Sources
Indicating sources is essential to avoid plagiarism!
- Here is a tool to help you train your students to recognize author’s rights.
Scientific Fraud
Articles (in French) addressing reseacher’s scientific fraud.
- Investigation of plagiarism in nine articles published in different journals. Read here.
- An article from 2013 that examines how scientific fraud commited by researchers has consequences on their career and those of their co-authors. Read here.
Plagiarism
Plagiarism detection software:
Articles on plagiarism
- Université Macquarie withdrew two master student’s diplomas after they were accused of buying different pieces of work online to succeed their studies.
- From the author’s point of view : ‟Honor codes stifle collaboration and encourage cheating”. She comments an accident where students collaborated in a class for a work project and have been found guilty of cheating after being warned not to collaborate to do the work assigned. This article is interesting but biased as the author’s daughter was in the class at the time although she ‟was not among the 20 percent accused of cheating”.
- Deputies have directly copy-pasted Wikipedia text for a law project. In your opinion, acceptable or not?
- The author of this article questions whether ‟Technology has made plagiarism easier and simpler, but can it also provide solutions?”
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Video on plagiarism
- The Foundation for a better Life, Honesty: Pass it on. A minute video concerning a cheating situation in a classroom.
- Stopping Plagiarism at the Source: Why Assignments Matter. This presentation shows how professors can prevent plagiarism in a classroom setting. The narrator also discusses the role of school culture, attitude and professionnal development of professors in order to prevent plagiarism.
Cheating
Articles about cheating
- A study conducted by CBC / Radio-Canada reveals that more than 7000 university students were caught cheating in 2011-2012. However, according to experts, cheaters would be much more numerous. Click here to read.
- According to a large study conducted with 500 students from the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) between 2009 and 2014, men and foreign students would be more likely to commit an academic offense than women and students born in Québec. Click here to read.
- According to this article, it seems that the best honor students are more likely to cheat than good students… What do you think about this? Click here to read.
- According to a Russian research on cheating conducted by Dr. Chirikov, ‟cheating has become a response to boring and meaningless education”. Click here to read.
Video on cheating
- A minute video concerning a cheating situation in a classroom. Click here to watch.
Associations and Websites
- The International Center for Academic Integrity works to identify, promote, and affirm the values of academic integrity among students, faculty, teachers, and administrators”.
- Plagiat et fraude scientifique: la perspective académique: ‟This site is a toolbox for professors, students and managers of institutions facing problems of fraud practiced via the Internet and resulting from the plagiarism of dissertations, theses, research articles and academic books. This significant collaborative work of Web 2.0 contributes for 10 years to the evolution of behaviors” (direct translation from their website).