Strategies for Avoiding Plagiarism and Misconduct

This presentation discusses strategies for avoiding plagiarism and misconduct in academic settings. It emphasizes the importance of maintaining academic integrity and provides tips for properly crediting sources. The presentation also introduces Rolling The Plagiarism, a game designed to increase awareness and knowledge about plagiarism and misconduct.

Game Design
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Introduction
Plagiarism means to steal someone's words without
crediting the Source. It is an ethical issues which
must be avoided by the students as it compromises
the integrity of the individual. Misconduct is a
negative attitude of students towards the school
officials. The examples of misconduct are negligence
to perform any duty, refuse to obey instructions,
taking excess breaks. Fort reducing the plagiarism
and Misconduct a Game is designed to increase the
knowledge and skills of individual. With this game
students can gain the knowledge related to academic
integrity, plagiarism and misconduct. There are
various skills which are required to produce the
game they are writing skills, organising skills,
presentation skills, Academic skills and mangy other
skills.
Rolling The Plagiarism
Rolling The Plagiarism
Rolling The Plagiarism is a game which is designed for
increasing the knowledge of people related to Plagiarism
and Misconduct. The game consist a box which have
several questions related to academic, Plagiarism and
Misconduct. There are four teams consist 10 Students in
each which are of different colours black, white, green,
and red.
The object of the Game
The object of the game is to make players aware
about causes incurred by Misconduct and Plagiarism.
Through this game students can get to know about the
importance of avoiding plagiarism and misconduct during
exams.
Strategies for avoiding Plagiarism and Misconduct
The students must keep the track of the sources, they must ensure that a proper
record of each information must be with them. The students must present their own
idea and use the sources from books, websites, journals, videos, magazines, etc.
Paraphrase and quote the sources, students must use their own words to complete
the project. They can take a help from other sources and use their own word for
explaining the work. Quoting means copying a word, generally paraphrasing is
better for long passages. The students must credit the author in text citation and
reference list, they must identify the ordinal author and include their page number
and publication year. There are various citation styles such as Chicago style, MLA
and APA.
The students must apply one style only in one project. The Students should also use
plagiarism checker before submitting their assessment. With the help of this
technology students can scan their documents and compare the data from
publications and websites.

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Questions
1. What do you mean by Plagiarism?
2. What do you mean by Misconduct?
3. What are the causes related to plagiarism and Misconduct?
4. Do you know how to avoid Plagiarism and Misconduct?
5. How can you overcome the issues of Plagiarism and Misconduct
6. What do you mean by Academic Integrity and why it is important?
7. What are the penalties for cheating and plagiarizing in class?
8. What are the characteristics of Citation and which style must be used in class?
9. What will be the consequences if misconduct is proven?
10. What are the laws related to Cheating?
1. Does there is any punishment for cheating, using plagiarism and Misconduct?
2. Why learning about the plagiarism and Academic Integrity is Important for Students?
3. Why do students copy the materials?
4. How you can detect the plagiarism?
5. What are the various forms of Plagiarism?
6. Who should be reported if any Misconduct happened?
7. What are the penalties which can be applied when an offences is proven?
8. For how many days students have to appeal for an academic Misconduct decision?
9. When students get issued an informal warning related to academic misconduct?
10. Who is responsible for identification of the cases of Plagiarism and Misconduct?
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