Strategy: Using the web to avoid self-plagiarism
6 Keywords: Plagerism, Citations, Dyslexia, Specific Learning Difficulties, Learning Differences, Learning Disabilities
"We have TurnitinUK in Blackboard, which allows you to check your work on-line - but this does not cope with your own work, so I had to look up self-plagiarism on the internet."
The reference I used was: Green, L. (2005). Reviewing the scourge of self-plagiarism. M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture 8(5). Retrieved April 27, 2008 from http://journal.media-culture.org.au/0510/07-green.php
There is a guide on writing up your own work at Monash University, Australia, anda quiz on the 'Internet Detective' called 'keeping on the right side of the law' and the University of Exeter have a video with students explaining how to avoid plagiarism having explained what they think it is.
Self-plagiarism is mentioned briefly in the interactive University of Sheffield on-line study skills drag and drop exercise for students with dyslexia
There are some simple steps to use TurnitinUK but the University of Southampton also has a guide for using TurnitinUK from Blackboard.
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"I find it really hard to avoid plagiarism from my own work and I had this problem in my dissertation. This does not seem to be in the rules available in our handbook or on the web pages."
- LottieTip
Self-plagiarism is not often discussed, so all I can say is "don't cut and paste any of your own work unless you can say where it came from!" - such as another assignment. (Lottie)
