Preventing, Detecting & Dealing with Plagiarism
A Workshop Coordinated by the Oberlin College Library
January 10, 2002

Overview and Background
10:00 Welcome-Ray English, Director of Libraries

10:05 Reflections on plagiarism from a liberal arts perspective-Suzanne Gay, Associate Professor, East Asian Studies

10:15 Overview: the booming plagiarism business, sources of plagiarized texts, high profile cases, what's going on elsewhere-Jessica Grim, Reference Librarian/Instruction Coordinator & Cynthia Comer, Head of Reference

10:45 Issues concerning international students-Nicolette Love, Associate Dean, International Student Affairs

11:00 Break

The Oberlin Scene
11:15 Update on the revision of Oberlin's Honor Code-Jim Helm, Professor, Classics, and Chair, General Faculty Honor Committee

11:30 The Student Honor Committee: how it works, what faculty should know about working with the committee-Joe Andriano, Rebecca Castellano, Student Honor Committee members

Approaches to Dealing with Plagiarism
11:45 Group discussions on pedagogical issues-introduced by Patty deWinstanley, Associate Professor, Psychology, and Director, Oberlin College Center for Excellence in Teaching

12:15 Break to get lunches, continue group discussions

12:30 Reports from groups-Patty deWinstanley

12:50 General discussion, wrap-up-Jessica Grim

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