Mike Larsen and Sherwin Huang led a discussion on feedback literacy and Studiosity's new 'Citation Alert' feature within Studiosity's Writing Feedback function. Explaining that rather than take on another policing role, Studiosity seeks to help the vast majority of students who don't mean to plagiarise, but perhaps do - due to anxiety, feeling rushed, feeling tired. Outcomes: Most plagiarism is unintentional, how can those students be better supported? Recommended action: Studiosity partners can switch on Citation Alert in Semester 2, 2019. This year's Studiosity 'Students First' Symposium was hosted at La Trobe University City Campus, 25 and 26 July 2019.

1. July 2019
Citation Alert
Assurance during stressful times

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Academic Integrity
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3. “How universities can help
students avoid plagiarism: get
them to write better”
The Conversation, 2016
- Stuart Wrigley, Royal Holloway, University of London

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The Power of Prevention
84% of students felt their academic skills had improved after using
the Studiosity service
80% of users felt more certain and confident in their approach to
their written work
80% of users felt more confident about their ability to avoid
plagiarising
Plagiarism Impact Research Project Report. (2018). Adjunct Professor Marcia Devlin, School of
Education, RMIT; Dr Jade McKay, Senior Researcher, The Right Consulting Group; Mr Zhiwei (Jerry) Yang,
Studiosity.

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Someone else’s shoes

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7:00 PM, Sunday
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You’ve already spent a whole weekend on this.

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7:30 PM, Sunday
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You’ve already spent a whole weekend on this.
You are getting tired.

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8:00 PM, Sunday
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You’ve already spent a whole weekend on this.
You are sleepy.
Stress is increasing.

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8:30 PM, Sunday
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You’ve already spent a whole weekend on this.
You are sleepy.
Stress is increasing.
Dozens of references to keep track of.

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9:00 PM, Sunday
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You’ve already spent a whole weekend on this.
You are sleepy.
Stress is increasing.
Dozens of references to keep track of.
Off to Studiosity just before submission.

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Someone else’s shoes

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n = 1,242
n = 236
n = 83
n = 11n = 15
1=Veryuseless
Very useful
78.3% of students said it would
be extremely useful.
1587 student voicesIf Writing Feedback reminded you to add a
citation when content from your submission
closely matches text from commonly used
journals and websites, how useful would that be
to you?
Very useless

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“ I often forget to cite information
and then lose marks in my overall
assignment”
1587 student voices
“ Am I going to get in trouble for
plagiarism? It was unintentional, I
swear.”
“ Hope I didn’t miss anything
when I was tired.”

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An opportunity to help
New methods of studying, new skills.
Students are:
● Tired (43% submit between 5pm and 12am)
● Stressed (Last minute submissions)
● Trying (They submit)

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An opportunity to help
New methods of studying, new skills.
Showing students how to fish:
● Internalising the referencing process
● Frame the need for academic integrity

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Wellbeing, not policing
● Build student confidence
● Reduce stress
● Increased sense of satisfaction

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Introducing: Citation Alerts

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How it works
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Draft submitted
Germany based and GDPR compliant
Draft is not:
Compared to other institutional
databases
Retained within their plagiarism
prevention pool (PPP)
Citation alerts
displayed inline
With formative
writing feedback
AND citation
alerts.
Sent to
Compared to online
texts and journals, text
matches flagged
Specialist reviews draft Returned
Same simple process

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Avoid accidental plagiarism
● Highlight matches from billions of online
sources and 20,000 journals
Specialist feedback
Citation alert

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Avoid accidental plagiarism
● Highlight matches from billions of online
sources and 20,000 journals
● Access to related sources and
management of highlights

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Avoid accidental plagiarism
● Highlight matches from billions of online
sources and 20,000 journals
● Access to related sources and
management of highlights
● Indication of content originality

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Avoid accidental plagiarism
● Highlight matches from billions of online
sources and 20,000 journals
● Access to related sources and
management of highlights
● Gives students an indication of content
originality
● Of course, available on desktop and mobile

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Available August

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Questions?
Available to all Students
August 2019.