Resolution on Plagiarism Detection Services

[Clancy Ratliff]

OK everyone, I just got out of the Resolutions Committee meeting (the open part of it). We spent the better part of an hour revising the version I submitted in February.

The committee members thought it would be more effective to start on a positive note*, so they moved the "does not endorse" part to the first WHEREAS. Remember, if the resolution passes, the whole thing including WHEREASes will be on NCTE's site, so that would hopefully keep Turnitin from being able to co-opt the statement. I did raise that concern with the committee, and they kept that in mind.

* Starting on a positive note: they want to start the BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED part by commending institutions that don't use PDS. The rest of it is pretty much what we wrote, but tweaked slightly. I'm fine with this revision, and that's what will be read at the business meeting. I can't be there for that, but I hope one of you guys can make it.

Proposed CCCC Resolution:

WHEREAS CCCC does not endorse the use of plagiarism detection services;

WHEREAS plagiarism detection services can compromise academic integrity by potentially undermining students’ agency as writers, treating all students as always already plagiarists, creating a hostile learning environment, shifting the responsibility of identifying and interpreting source misuse from teachers to technology, and compelling students to agree to licensing agreements that threaten their privacy and rights to their own intellectual property;

WHEREAS plagiarism detection services potentially negatively change the role of the writing teacher; construct ill-conceived notions of originality and writing; disavow the complexities of writing in and with networked, digital technologies; and treat students as non-writers;

WHEREAS composition teacher-scholars can intervene and combat the potential negative influences of PDSs by educating colleagues about the realities of plagiarism and the troubling outcomes of using PDSs; advocating actively against the adoption of such services; modeling and sharing ideas for productive writing pedagogy; and conducting research into alternative pedagogical strategies to address plagiarism, including honor codes and process pedagogy;

"BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED that the Conference on College Composition and Communication commends institutions that offer sound pedagogical alternatives to PDS; encourages institutions that use PDS to implement practices in the best interests of their students, including notifying students at the beginning of the term that the service will be used, providing students with a non-coercive and convenient opt out process, and inviting students to submit drafts to the service before turning in final text.

Clancy Ratliff, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor and Director of First-Year Writing
Department of English
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
http://culturecat.net/portfolio/

[Charlie Lowe]

Charlie Lowe
low...@gvsu.edu
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[Karen Lunsford]

Passed this morning, with a correction to a typo.   Thanks to everyone who worked on this!    Karen

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[ble...@comcast.net]

Nicely done Clancy, et al. 

Is the below the resolution as passed? Can we get the updated, so I don't have to search out the typo?

Bradley Bleck
bleckblog.org

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From: "Charlie Lowe" <low...@mail.gvsu.edu>
To: intellectual-p...@googlegroups.com
Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2013 8:18:22 PM
Subject: Re: Resolution on Plagiarism Detection Services

[Jeffrey Galin]

Resolution passed

[Jim Purdy]

Yes, I second Karen's congratulations. Thanks, Clancy, Jeff, and all!

Jim

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CC: intellectual-p...@googlegroups.com
From: klun...@writing.ucsb.edu

Subject: Re: Resolution on Plagiarism Detection Services

Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2013 10:02:07 -0700
To: intellectual-p...@googlegroups.com

[Karen Lunsford]

Hi Charlie, Just to clarify -- this version of the resolution is
correct. The typo occurred in the printed version that was to be read
to the assembly at the business meeting (and was corrected then).
Best, Karen

Quoting Jim Purdy <jpp...@hotmail.com>:

> Yes, I second Karen's congratulations. Thanks, Clancy, Jeff, and all!
>
> Jim
>

> potentially undermining students? agency as writers, treating all

Karen Lunsford, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Writing
Coordinator, Writing in the Disciplines
Director, Ph.D. Emphasis in Writing Studies
University of California, Santa Barbara
klun...@writing.ucsb.edu

[Lisa Maruca]

A belated thanks and congratulations to Clancy and everyone who was involved in getting this passed.  What is now many years ago, I was involved in the very first draft of this, maybe the second as well, but other projects and responsibilities did not allow me to continue working on it as time went on.  I'm glad others took up the cause.  It's an important resolution.

In other ip news, did you all see this article yesterday? http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/20/4126936/copyright-register-today-will-embark-on-mission-to-overhaul-us

Lisa

Lisa Maruca
Associate Chair and Director of Undergraduate Studies
Associate Professor
Department of English
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Wayne State University
Detroit, MI 48202
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