Resources on Plagiarism and Other Ethical Issues (The Council Chronicle, Nov. 05)

NCTE’s “Guidelines for Dealing with Censorship of Nonprint and Multimedia Materials” includes a section on “Suggestions for Responsible Use of the Internet,” which includes requiring students and their parents or legal guardians to sign an “honor code” that includes a promise not to engage in deceitful Internet practices, including plagiarism. Find this guideline at http://www.ncte.org/about/over/positions/category/cens/107611.htm.

The “CCCC Position Statement on Teaching, Learning, and Assessing Writing in Digital Environments” is online at http://www.ncte.org/about/over/positions/category/comp/115775.htm?source=gs.

The CCCC Intellectual Property Caucus, which frequently deals with issues of online intellectual property, has a Web site at http://www.ncte.org/cccc/gov/committees/all/123759.htm?source=gshttp://www.ncte.org/cccc/gov/committees/all/123759.htm?source=gs.

The August 2005 NCTE Journal English Leadership Quarterly focuses on plagiarism. The issue includes such articles as “Plagiarism: A Student-Led, Proactive Approach” and “Should We Give Up the Plagiarism Battle?” 

Professional Communities at Work: Engaging Media-Savvy Students, NCTE’s teacher-centered professional development kit on multimodal literacies, is expected to be available by mid-November. Visit http://www.ncte.org/store/kits for more information.

“Defining and Avoiding Plagiarism: The WPA Statement on Best Practices” from The Council of Writing Program Administrators can be found at http://www.wpacouncil.org/node/9.

The Stanford University Libraries offer a “Copyright & Fair Use” Web site at http://fairuse.stanford.edu/. The page includes links to copyright and fair use guides, important copyright sites, and current legislation on the issues.

The Copyright Society of the USA is sponsoring Copyright Awareness Week, March 6–10, 2006. See their Web site for more information and resources: http://www.csusa.org/.

Law of the Student Press, published by the Student Press Law Center, is available through the JEA bookstore at http://www.jea.org/resources/bookstore/lawethics.html.

Resources are available through the Newseum, “the interactive museum of news,” at http://www.newseum.org/. 

Purdue University’s Online Writing Lab offers resources on plagiarism at http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_plagiar.html. 

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