The Fourth International Plagiarism Conference took place 21-23 June 2010 at City Campus East, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK and brought together experts in plagiarism and authentic assessment to share good practice in this area. Delgates from around the globe met to consider effective implementation of policy and procedures, innovative assessment practice, synergies between the legal and the pedagogic, the international context, along with new technologies in image and music plagiarism.

Full papers and powerpoint slides from the conference can be found below.

Download the 2010 Conference Programme (PDF).

Keynote Speakers

Presenter / Title
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Slater A,
Going on a plagiarist "outing" - Nudge, judge, and sue
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Boujnane L,
Image identification and authenticity

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Nisbet I,
Authentic assessment: Sustaining confidence in qualifications

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Fishman T,
Lessons from the Law:Bringing the Right Kind of Legalism to Plagiarism Policy
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Carroll J,
'International' thinking about plagiarism
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Guest Speakers

Monday's and Tuesday's Presenters / Titles
Abstracts Papers  Slides  Videos
Anne Marie Tarter,
‘Catching Them When They’re Young: secondary school: strategies for tackling plagiarism’
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Adrian Slater,
“Too many rights and not enough resolution”
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Reddy M,
Putting the ‘Play‘ in Plagiarism
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Sengati-Zimba M,
“I didn‘t realise it applied to me”: Promoting academic integrity in an L2 environment
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Henderson S,
Identifying students at risk of committing academic misconduct
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Clements M,
Creating a Culture of Honesty and Prevention; Textual and Visual Plagiarism
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Pecorari D and Shaw P,
University teachers discussing plagiarism: divided perspectives on teaching writing and shaping a culture of honesty
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Sousa-Silva R, Grant T, Maia B,
“I didn’t mean to steal someone else’s words!”: Forensic linguistic approach to detecting intentional plagiarism
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Davies P and Malkawi R,
Can the use of digital storytelling replace the need for essays in higher education? If so as they are ‘personal reflections’ can they eradicate plagiarism?
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De Wit K, Hulpiau V, De Baere J et al,
The history and implementation of a policy on plagiarism: a case study from K.U.Leuven
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Williams D,
Academic Integrity: Pots and Kettles
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Chew E and Price T,
Turn it in or Turn it off? A pilot project for Turnitin and Grademark experience
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Sutherland-Smith W and Pecorari D,
Policy and practice in two academic settings: How the administrative structures of Australian and Swedish universities serve a culture of honesty?

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Mullensiefen D,
Music Plagiarism
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Hrasky S and Kronenberg D,
Curriculum redesign as a faculty-centred approach to plagiarism reduction
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Flynn S,
Using Turnitin with large clases to support writing
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Segal S and Gelfand B J,
Plagiarism in residency applications for Harvard Medical School
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Weber-Wulff D,
Test case for plagiarism detection software
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Rigby D, Balcombe K, Burton M, et al,
Students as consumers: the market for essays
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Porter M,
Beyond simple textual plagiarism: some probable issues and possible answers
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Bretag T (Presented by Green M),
Developing international collaborations: Bringing the Asia Pacific, North America and Europe together on Educational Integrity
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Morris E,
Approaches and strategies to foster a culture of academic honesty: how can we help students develop an understanding of good academic practice
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Neville C,
Student perceptions of referencing
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Shaw L,
Improving academic integrity
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Culwin F and Reddy M,
Deciding academic misconduct by means of a viva is unsafe and unsound.
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Wednesday's Presenters / Titles
Abstracts Papers  Slides
Tennant P,
A Benchmark Tariff for the Application of Penalties for Student Plagiarism in Higher Education
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Hunter A,
Promoting a culture of academic awareness and honesty: developing an institutional ‘good academic practice’ website and understanding how student can and do make use of it
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Varlamis I,
Identifying free text plagiarism based on semantic similarity
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Royce J,
Changing Attitudes: from plagiarism and punishment to positive practice
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Thornton D,
Detect, deter and disappear: the plagiarism prevention project at Bilkent University, Turkey
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Dixon S,
The plagiarism detection learning curve - the experience of a FE college
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Badge J,
How effective are electronic plagiarism detection systems and does it matter how you use them? Reviewing the evidence
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Green M,
‘Factors integral to the case’: Categorising qualitative factors used to determine academic integrity
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Chong M,
Using natural language processing for automatic detection of plagiarism
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Bellefeuille B,
Leveraging technology to authenticate remote learners using Securexam Remote Proctor
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Simpson Nikakis K,
Creating a culture of honesty in a newly established, creative degree: NMIT’s Bachelor of Writing and Publishing
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Brandt J,
Plagiarism detection in open access publication
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Culwin F,
Optimising and automating the choice of search strings when investigating possible plagiarism

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Zhang X,
Preventing Plagiarism and Academic misconduct: a study of a Chinese University
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Storm C,
Translated and Paraphrased Plagiarism
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Wiggins C,
Turning Points: Building a framework for active student engagement and learning with Turnitin
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Harrison N,
Stakeholder perceptions of academic dishonesty and approaches used to promote academic integrity in nursing students:findings from a pilot study
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Chapple S,
Cultural transitions: teaching, assessment and acknowledgement practices for international students
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Forster P,
Academic Integrity Inititatives: have they made a difference?
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Tynan M,
UCD Library’s Online Plagiarism Quiz - a new solution to an old problem
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Barrón-Cedeño A and Rosso P,
Towards the 2nd International Competition on Plagiarism Detection and Beyond
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Verhagen H,
Plagiarism awareness, perception and attitudes among students and teachers in Swedish higher education - a case study
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Lingard G,
Who copied who?
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Morin S,
Plagiarism: do we have a blind spot?
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