Promoting Integrity in Assignments:
Include Verification in Process
Verify that students are completing their own work throughout the research/writing process. This can be done in several ways:
- If you break the assignment into parts, you can check each part as it comes due. Even a students who could find someone to complete a final project for them would have difficulty finding someone who would complete all of the parts to your specification.
- Us a worksheet such as "Alexa the Friendly Librarian" to have students document their work. Other worksheets and handouts are available as part of Resources for Researchers.
- By holding conferences with students, you can discuss their work with them.
- Assign that students do a portion of the research as graded homework. For example, ask that they print out the title page of two Google books that are relevant to their topic. "Using Google Books" is a Resources for Researchers' handout that shows students how to use Google books.
