Use of MyUni to avoid Plagiarism (pdf 599kB)
Judi Baron, Learning and Teaching Development Unit
This session will focus on ways that lecturers can design assessments and utilise MyUni to help minimise plagiarism without reducing the quality and rigour of assessment requirements.

Postgraduate research students don't plagiarise, do they?
Kate Cadman, Research Education Programs Unit, Adelaide Graduate Centre
In this session I will identify some issues which emerge from my experience with international and local postgraduate research students and invite discussion on strategies for understanding and responding to these examples.

How Turn-it-in turns them round
Barbara Gare, TRC Mathematical Modelling
Kristin Munday, Engineering Communications Program
In this session we relate some plagiarism experiences with and without anti-plagirism software in a Maths and IT Communication subject.

An anti-plagiarism approach to learning and teaching (pdf 306kB)
Ursula McGowan, Learning and Teaching Development Unit
In this session I will focus on learning approaches and assignment requirements to minimise the problems of inadvertent plagiarism, particularly for students in their first year at University and international students from language backgrounds other than English.

Plagiarism: Rules, Policies and Guidelines (pdf 875kB)
Geoff Crisp, Learning and Teaching Development Unit
This presentation by the Convenor of the Plagiarism Working Party will highlight issues in relation to proposed changes to University policies and procedures.

Beyond Policing Pedagogy: Plagiarism, scholarly values and knowledge economies
Deane Fergie, Anthropology, School of Social Science
Is there more to the contemporary interest in plagiarism than 'policing' and 'citational pedagogy'? In this session contemporary plagiarism discourses are explored as windows onto important aspects of scholarship and inquiry. The analysis builds on work by Eric Michaels (1985) and Simon Harrison (1995) on the management of knowledge in Aboriginal and Melanesian societies, and Pamela Long's (2001) examination of openness, secrecy and authorship (from antiquity to the rennaissance) in cultures 'closer to home'.

Report on the Turn-it-in trial in Physiology (zip 63kB)
Dan McHolm, School of Molecular and Biological Sciences
This session will outline the trial of Turn-it-in and discuss issues raised following the results of the trial in Physiology.

What's Wrong With Plagiarism?
Gerard O'Brien, Philosophy, School of Humanities
Most of the policies regarding plagiarism in Australian universities focus on the concept of "intellectual honesty". But is this the right focus for a policy directed at students (rather than, say, practising academics)? In this session I will ponder the question "What's wrong with plagiarsm?" in an attempt to provide a proper foundation for a student-centred plagiarism policy. I will also report briefly on the trial of plagiarism detection software in Philosophy.

Analysing Logical Cohesion in Undergraduate Engineering Student Texts
Kristin Munday, ESL Coordinator, Faculty of Engineering, Mathematical and Computer Sciences
Students often experience difficulties in structuring ideas logically in academic texts. These difficulties are particulary evident in international student texts. Kristin will present examples of these difficulties and the preliminary analyses of some of her data. She will also give an overview of the learning and teaching strategies that she has been using to help students overcome some of these problems.

Struggles at the coalface: early candidature Engineering postgrads 'at risk' (ppt 62kB)
Karen Adams, Lecturer, Research Education Programs, Adelaide Graduate Centre
Karen will present some preliminary findings from a case study of the learning and writing strategies used by two 'at risk' international postgraduate Engineering students in early candidature. Data sources included student interviews, samples of their research writing and supervisor feedback. Analysis of data suggests that certain strategies were more effective than others in helping these students to overcome their difficulties. These findings may contribute to the repertoire of strategies that can be suggested to students for addressing similar learning and writing needs.

The Learning Commons at Guelph University—The Canadian Way
Beth Murison, Lecturer, University of Guelph, Ontario
Beth Murison previously taught at Sydney University. She now teaches in the Learning Commons at the University of Guelph, Ontario. Beth will highlight features of student services in this Canadian model.

Testing clinical reasoning in PBL education—the viewpoint of a language specialist.
Helen Fraser, Lecturer, Medical Education Unit
Helen will discuss the analysis of two Year 2 student exam texts: one successful and the other unsuccessful. Her analysis examines the language strategies used by each student, and the reasons the students interpreted the exam question differently. The methodologies used in analysing the texts can be adapted to classroom teaching.