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- The course has a few
written assignments.

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Some are mandatory, some are optional.

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In this video I will explain

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what are the requirements
for written assignments,

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what kind of answers I'm looking for,

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and also what is the plagiarism
policy of the course.

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Let's take a look.

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The assignments, the written assignments,

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are typically structured
in a way that you're given

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a set of readings.

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Most are methodological papers,

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or book chapters, or a book,

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and then you're given
an empirical article.

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And your task is to evaluate
the empirical article

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against what you read from
the methodological material.

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Importantly, you need to
write in your own words

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and explain how you
understood the material.

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Paraphrasing is insufficient.

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So if you simply paraphrase,

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tell me what the material says

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without really explaining what
you think the material means,

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will not produce you a good grade.

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And I will give you personal feedback

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of all the assignments that you submit.

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Then we have a plagiarism policy.

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All submissions are checked with TurnItIn.

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And this is basically an automated

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plagiarism detection system.

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And we require, the course requires,

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that you apply the APA
style for crediting sources.

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I'll show examples.

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And any non-trivial violation
of plagiarism policy

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need to be redone twice.

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So you need to practice how
you write it in your own words

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and you need to practice how to write,

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how to cite and quote proper.

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These are important writing
skills for researchers.

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And you really need to be able to

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produce text that passes the threshold of

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not being rejected from a
journal because of plagiarism.

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And this is one of the things

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that I hope to teach
you during the course.

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Every year there are one or two students

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who try to plagiarize, they get caught.

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And usually redoing the assignment,

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one assignment is enough
and the problem goes away.

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But this is something that
you need to pay attention to.

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So every time when you cite
something, include a citation.

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If you quote something,
include quotation marks.

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And we follow the APA style.

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You can look at the APA
publication manual for details

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if you are not sure how
the APA style works.

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I also have a video on how
to insert APA style citations

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using the Zotero reference
management software

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on the course website.

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The grading is anonymous.

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So this is an important part.

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I want all the submissions
to look the same.

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And this is important for two reasons.

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It is important for you because otherwise

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there is a small chance that if

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I have some kind of impression
on how you have been doing

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in the class or on the forums,

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that could influence my grade.

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So it protects your submission grading

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from any kinds of biases because
I don't know who you are.

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And it's also for me.

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I think it's more relaxing

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to grade something when I
don't know whose work it is.

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One year my wife took the course

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and it was a bit, let's say,

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weird to grade her work.

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But with anonymous grading,

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that kind of problem won't happen.

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It's a generally good idea

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to keep the grades independent.

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Now let's take a look at

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how the plagiarism system works

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and how do you view your feedback.

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When you have submitted
something and I have graded it,

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then you can go to the
Turnitin user interface

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to where you submitted
your assignment first.

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And then there is this pen
icon here, or pencil icon.

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Click on the pencil icon
to view the comments.

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And that opens the Turnitin
grade mark user interface.

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And this is what it looks like.

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So here is

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the parts marked red are

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potential plagiarism detected
by the TurnItIn system.

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And this is actual plagiarism
because I simply typed this

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from the Singleton and Straits book.

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And this shows you two ways
to fail the assignment.

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If you plagiarize, you copy,

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and you don't cite the source,

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that's gonna be failed
and you need to redo.

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Then a quote without explanation.

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If your answer is simply
a quote from the book,

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you're saying that this
is what the book said,

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that's not technically plagiarism

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because you have the citation here.

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You have the page number here

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and you have the quotation marks.

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So you will not be failed
because of plagiarism,

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but most likely I will fail you

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because you did not fully
complete the assignment.

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I'm not looking at,

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on a PhD level course,

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whether you can locate
information from the book.

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I know that you all can.

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I'm rather looking at can
you process the information,

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how have you understood the information,

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and what are your thoughts
on the things that you read,

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instead of asking you
what does the book say.

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Paraphrasing the content,

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basically writing whatever
Singleton and Strait says

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in different words will
give you one point of five.

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So I'm not looking at paraphrasing.

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I want to see how you
have understood things

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and I also want to see your own reactions

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to things that you read,
your own reflections.

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Let's take a look at a couple better

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ways to answer this question.

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So own explanation gives you

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three to four points out of five

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depending on how good the explanation is.

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So instead of saying that this is how

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Singleton and Straits define reliability,

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you say that this is how
I understood reliability

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after reading Singleton and Straits.

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If you want to get a five,

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which is more difficult to do,

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then you need to add something more.

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So you need to add some
more of your own reflection.

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For example, can you find links between

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the different materials?

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Like in this example,

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there's a small contradiction between

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what Singleton and Straits
say about reliability

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and what I say in one video

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and if a student gives his or her opinion

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on who is right about that,

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then that increases your score.

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So I'm looking for original thinking

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instead of paraphrasing
what the book said.

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Then I give you comments.

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I give you two kinds of comments.

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There's always the general comments.

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So this is like the general explanation

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of what I liked, what I did not like.

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And then I give specific comments.

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Specific comments are speech bubbles here.

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I might mark, these are kinda like stamps.

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I have stamped these parts to be correct

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and I have stamped this highlighted part

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to be a good observation.

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And the speech bubble here indicates

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that there are more comments available.

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And you click on the speech bubble,

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then you can see what additional things

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I've wrote about that part.

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Depending if you paraphrase a lot,

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then I'll simply say here in the comment

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that this is paraphrase,
no original thinking,

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and therefore not much to comment.

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But if you do these assignments well,

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expect lots of comments.

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And then you read through the comments

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and think them through
and then learning happens.