International program directors and anyone involved with faculty training for international students will raise faculty awareness on approaching source use and plagiarism, including areas of confusion and thus educational opportunities for many international students. Creating integrated campus policies and courses on using sources effectively within disciplines will also be discussed.  Structured as a “train the trainer” event, this program will address methods and techniques to support your faculty in helping students properly cite sources in their writing assignments.

• Essentials: What Faculty Members Need to Know
  • Balancing policies and educating students on source use and citation fundamentals
    • Sample sanctions
    • Sample policies
  • Areas of confusion for students
    • Students need help with terminology, what to quote or cite, and understanding technical terms
    • Emphasis on effective writing in general and how plagiarism-free writing furthers that goal
    • Understanding “common knowledge”
    • Implications for group work and collaborative writing
  • Cultural attitudes and unique cultural differences for citations
• Methods for Training Faculty
  • Connecting effective source use and accurate citation to good writing
  • Writing support examples
  • Helping students write with clear citation boundaries
  • Using online plagiarism tools proactively
  • Creating a campus-wide Code of Conduct or Honor Code
  • Reviewing institutional policy
• Q&A and Wrap Up