Teachers can discourage students from resorting to previously written papers by course-specific assignment design. Continue reading for several strategies KU faculty have used to discourage plagiarism. Online Teaching Centers around the World Managed by KU Center for Teaching Excellence, this site links faculty and TAs to a wealth of faculty resources in the U.S. and abroad. An excellent resource in itself, this site is also a gateway to several other OWLs. A recycling repository, this site is worth monitoring.
Faculty can pursue syllabi and assignments in a variety of fields.
During that time, however, writing center became the generic term for student writing laboratory. To clarify the nature of our service and to avoid the widely held assumption on campus that KU provides a writing center for its students, we begin this year with a new name. In addition to advocating a student-centered writing consulting service for both student and faculty benefit, we continue to encourage faculty's use of writing in their teaching, whether they wish to use it as a mode for learning or to introduce the writing conventions of their disciplines. Services to Faculty Some of the ways we support writing across the university are by visiting with faculty about writing as a tool for learning and as a key component of their disciplines consulting with teachers regarding writing projects, including alternatives to traditional research papers, strategies to avoid plagiarism, term project needing segmenting consulting with departments to embed writing throughout programs designing assignments and informational handouts for students creating checklists for specific assignments presenting sessions to classes in conjunction with specific assignments Assignment Strategies to Discourage Plagiarism Effective assignment design discourages plagiarism. This page was originally constructed by the Writing Consulting Program at the University of Kansas.