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SafeAssign: Using SafeAssign to Teach Student-to-Source Ratio

 

A characteristic weakness of student work is overreliance on quoted material. In the worst of these cases, the paper is little more than a patchwork of quotations strung together. The SafeAssign report can help students determine the ratio between their own writing and thinking and the writing and thinking they have used from other sources. Students can be asked to submit drafts of their papers to SafeAssign to check not only for proper documentation, but also to determine whether they are striking the right balance between themselves and their sources. Instructors should establish in advance a target score range – say 25 to 35 % – depending on the ratio of student-to-source appropriate for the assignment. Have students submit their papers in draft form to the SafeAssignment created for this purpose on Blackboard. Students should then review their reports, revise their drafts as necessary, and turn in copies of the original, the revision, and perhaps a brief response to the assignment.

 

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Also in this section:

• Incorporating SafeAssign into the Classroom
• Using SafeAssign to Teach Paraphrasing
• Using SafeAssign to Teach Direct Quoting
• Using SafeAssign to Teach Student-to-Source Ratio