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Clear Assignments and Expectations

Many students plagiarize because of sheer difficulty with the assignment. While this applies to all students, the frustration with difficult writing tasks can be even more stress-inducing for multi-lingual students who may be struggling with understanding the expectations of particular genres or assignments.

The clearer you can be in writing about what you expect from a given paper, the better you can clarify the task for all students. Providing a sample paper from a past class, for example, can go a long way toward clearing up confusion about expectations.

Structuring Assignments provides ideas specific to plagiarism issues in the construction of assignments.

The Junior Year Writing website also includes helpful information and examples of how to make your assignments as clear and meaningful to students as possible.