By Chrissine Rios, KU Writing Center Tutor For instructors teaching Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC), charging a student with plagiarism is unpleasant, but it doesn’t need to be stressful. The […]
Sometimes instructors and tutors miss the mark when teaching students how to avoid plagiarism. With a TurnItIn® report as evidence of the offense, plagiarism is treated as a matter of ignorance–of […]
Students tell tutors what they would never tell their instructors: that their children do their Internet research, that they don’t speak English so are using an online translator, that […]
By Kyle Harley In the not-so-distant past, I encountered an overly-downtrodden student that, among other issues, came to a Live Tutoring session with his tail between his legs regarding a […]
By Lisa Gerardy, MA As you probably know if you read this blog regularly, it is Plagiarism Month. Earlier in the month, Melody Pickle wrote a helpful blog on helping […]
By Melody Pickle, Ph.D, KUWC Writing Specialist, WAC Learning to write in an academically acceptable research style is a complex writing task. To complete this task student writers must step outside […]
Students plagiarize in every facet of education. My dad left his corporate career in 1991 to teach computer programming at our local university. Teaching was fine, but grading was a […]
Listen to the latest Effective Writing Podcasts: Writing An Effective Thesis Statement and Self Plagiarism. These students resources are entertaining and educational. Kurtis Clements explains two issues that cause many […]
The Kaplan University Writing Center is proud to share this new video tutorial which provides a basic overview of APA. In just over five minutes, the video demonstrates following APA Style […]
I am pleased to present to you…hot off the press… the new plagiarism tutorial video: Avoiding Plagiarism: An Interactive Self Assessment This video tutorial will soon be in the KUWC resource […]
