According to Inside Highered, a community college prof has hit on the idea of sending students to 'traffic school' if they are caught plagiarizing.
Instead of just bouncing them, the prof wants to send them to a five step program.
The five steps:
1. Write a detailed, self-exam on “Why I plagiarized.”
2. Read case studies of plagiarism. (Files said that many of the examples cover cases of professional journalists fired from their jobs.)
3. Write a paragraph defining plagiarism.
4. Meet with a tutor to discuss proper citation etiquette and complete a short worksheet on citations.
5. Meet with a faculty committee to talk about how to avoid plagiarism and lessons learned.
Frankly, I think it would be easier to bounce them - give them a warning, make them do the assignment over, take the course over or have them come back when they grow up.
The five steps seem much too much for a common sense violation.
What do you think?
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