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Best Practice Guide for Teachers

Task Selection to Avoid Plagiarism

  • Avoid tasks with ready made answers on the web.
  • Choose tasks that require comparison, evaluation, decision making.
  • Choose an output format that is hard to copy/paste directly: table, letter, poem, mind map.

Search Intelligently

  • Think carefully about key words.
  • Use ‘Advanced Search’ to focus search.

Be Selective

  • Use a minimum of two reliable sources.
  • Find sources at the right level (not too advanced or too simple).
  • Think about the reliability of sources – author, site, motives, bias, checkable facts.
  • Don’t rely too much on Wikipedia – anyone can contribute.

Avoid Plagiarism

  • Include a bibliography (list of sources).
  • Direct quotes in inverted commas.
  • Use your own ‘voice’ (your own words and phrases).
  • Include source url under pictures (small font).