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Practical Tips to Prevent Plagiarism

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By Meagan Gillmore

Students plagiarize. But they don’t create the problem. Often, teachers do. Some assignments are easy to plagiarize. Teachers need to create assignments that require more than Google searches to complete.

“Plagiarism prevention is important, but it’s not really the point,” says Kate Johnson-McGregor, a high school librarian in Brantford, ON, and president of the Ontario School Library Association.

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Meagan Gillmore is a freelance writer in Toronto, ON.

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