Dear List Members,

 

I’m working with a faculty member in our visual art department on the issue of plagiarism in creative art studio course work.  This faculty member has found that her undergraduate students are copying works they find on the web for studio art assignments.  Some of the student seem truly confused when she raises this as a problem – they don’t understand this as plagiarism, and they say that they do not know how to come up with their own ideas. 

 

Does anyone know of educational guides or resources to address this issue?  The professor would like to develop a way to address the problem in the department’s curriculum.

 

Many thanks for any insights or resources you may have.

Robin Rank

 

Open access article that discusses the problem:

Spot the Difference! Plagiarism Identification in the Visual Arts.
Amy Robinson, and Leigh Garrett.
BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, 2012.

https://research.uca.ac.uk/1194/1/ewic_ev12_s2paper1.pdf

 

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