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In Japan, college students can easily access Internet resources, and this has led to plagiarism becoming a serious obstacle to overcome in the objective of academic performance assessment in third level education. Among the main reasons for this practice is the students’ lack of awareness of the meaning of plagiarism and its implications for the dissemination of knowledge in a lawful manner. In this paper, the author describes a classroom project based on legal conflicts, which are associated with two popular Walt Disney films, Finding Nemo (Unkrich, 2003) and Frozen (Buck, 2014), as a pedagogical resource to demonstrate the concept of academic misconduct.
The objective was to evaluate the extent to which the in-classroom exemplification and discussion of plagiarism resulted in a better understanding of the concept of plagiarism and its prevention through the analysis of students’ writing assignments about the resource. The results show that the activity using these lawsuit examples
prompts deep understanding of plagiarism and an improvement of avoiding academic dishonesty in students’ writing. Through this research, the qualitative examination of the data provided in the essays demonstrated the positive benefit of using an actual case study from the media in combination with the students’ assignments. |
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