Research

“‘It’s not fair’: policy discourses and students’ understandings of plagiarism in a New Zealand university” by Lee Anderson, Vivienne Anderson, and Rachel Spronken-Smith

• Available through New Paltz Library database. Accessible version available through NP link. Check to see if your institution has access. A case study of student and university perspectives on plagiarism with a focus on the way different speakers and documents construct discourses about plagiarism.

“A Safe Place: The Role of Librarians and Writing Centers in Addressing Citation Practices and Plagiarism” by Lisa Buranen

• Available through New Paltz Library database. Accessible version available through NP link. Check to see if your institution has access. An article about the ambiguities of plagiarism and how those ambiguities can be addressed by librarians and writing centers.

“Conversational Strategies that Support Idea Generation Productivity in Groups” by Rohit Kumar, Jack Beuth, and Carolyn Rose

• Available through New Paltz Library database. Check to see if your institution has access. Accessible Word document available upon request. An article on the effects of an experiment on social and heteroglossic conversational strategies when used by automated tutoring programs on engineering students’ idea generation.

“Sparking a Transition, Unmasking Confusion: An Empirical Study of the Benefits of a Writing Center Workshop about Patchwriting” by Jessa Wood, Ted Roggenbuck, Peter Doerschler, and Megan Hicks

• Available through New Paltz Library database. Check to see if your institution has access. Accessible Word document available upon request.  An article about an experiment exploring the effects a Writing With Sources workshop that explored citation, paraphrase, and patchwriting. The findings revealed that patchwriting may be a crutch to make up for or hide lower reading comprehension.

Importance of Self-Care

Depression: Facts, Statistics, and You by Brandi Koskie for Healthline.

• A thorough article on different types of depression and how people are affected by them, along with stats on how prevalent they are.

Happiness Essential Mindfulness Practices / Thich Nhat Hanh. by Thich Nhat Hanh

• Available through New Paltz Library database. Check to see if your institution has access. Accessible Word document available upon request. An eBook on practices that ensure happiness.

How Colleges Today Are Supporting Student Mental Health by Amy L. Eva

• An article on what universities are doing to support student’s mental health issues as young people around the country’s mental health reaches an all time low.

Managing Personal Stress from the Kwantlen Polytechnic University

• An article about learning to evaluate your own level of personal stress and how to navigate it.

Student Perspectives: The Importance of Mental Health Conversations from Kognito

• An article on the importance of discussing mental health concerns among college students.

Supporting the Mental Health of College Students During the Pandemic and Beyond by Marvin Krislov for Forbes.

• An article about the prevalence of mental health issues, including depression, amongst U.S. college students, and how families and educators can help.

Tutoring Problems

Codependency: Teaching Tutors not to Rescue by Karen E. Winnard

• Available upon request at the link. An article about issues of codependency in tutoring and how to guide students rather than do the work for them.

Designing a Writing Tutor-Led Plagiarism Intervention Program by Bailey Bridgewater, Ellie Pounds and Alysa Morley.

• Available through New Paltz Library database. Check to see if your institution has access. Accessible Word document available upon request. An article on how one university addressed issues of plagiarism by employing the Writing and Math tutoring centers. Presents different scenarios of plagiarism and how they started a Plagiarism Intervention Program.

A Plagiarism Pentimento by Rebecca Moore Howard

• Available through link which is an accessible version. An article on plagiarism, mentioned in Jessica Delaney’s featured podcast on Plagiarism in the Research unit. See the whole article that she quotes here.