Open Directory - Reference: Education: Educators: Academic Dishonesty: Plagiarism
See also: This category in other languages: - Ideas to use in preventing and detecting plagiarism. - Publisher's site providing information about The Plagiarism Handbook, a book with information about preventing, detecting, and dealing with plagiarism. - Examples and practice exercises from Rio Salado College. - Provides a forum to identify, affirm, and promote the values of academic integrity among students. It is affiliated with the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University. - Briefly discusses the relationship between copyright and plagiarism. - Preventing, detecting and tracking online plagiarism. - Dalhousie's policies, news about plagiarism in university settings, and resources for faculty and students to help understand, avoid and detect plagiarism. - Article taken from the October 2001 issue of Educause Review. [PDF] - Answers common questions that college students may have on the subject and confronts some of their excuses for not giving proper credit to their sources. - Definitions of plagiarism from the American Historical Association, Modern Language Association, and the American Psychological Association. - Essay from Susan Richman asking, "Has plagiarism ever come up in conversation at home with your kids?" - Use this resource to confirm if an essay was created by the student who submitted it, or copied in part or in full from the web. - An initiative to encourage colleges and universities to do as much as they can to reinforce the positive values instilled by parents, such as honesty, compassion, self-discipline, and respect. - A list of Internet term paper and essay sites was compiled as part of a Teaching Effectiveness Seminar on cheating, plagiarism and Internet paper mills. - What It is and How to Recognize and Avoid It. From Indiana University Writing Resources page. - Subtitled "How to Write Term Papers Without Being Sucked into the Black Hole." - A site targeted at webmasters and copyright holders regarding the issue of plagiarism online. - Guide for teachers and faculty discussing some issues and responses to the problem. - Article briefly discusses plagiarism in commercial and educational settings on the web. - Techniques, listing references, self-tests and worksheets from David Gardner of the University of Hong Kong. - Bibliography of print resources on plagiarism and the web. - Presents a concise list of methods for combating plagiarism in the classroom. From Bruce Leland of Western Illinois University. - Alison Bone, University of Brighton, provides basic information on the nature of plagiarism and how to prevent it, supplemented by extracts from the University of Brighton's student guide on plagiarism. - Documents used by the University of Kentucky Department of Chemistry. - Provides generic advice and guidance on all aspects of plagiarism prevention and detection to institutions, academics and students. - A handout designed to help writers develop strategies for knowing how to avoid accidental plagiarism. - A professor provides an informal collection of web resources on preventing and detecting plagiarism. - A tutorial with many examples, practice questions with feedback, and a test. - Study guide company explains its stance on plagiarism, explains what it is and how to entirely avoid it. - Links to various weblog entries dealing with the topic of plagiarism (as self-described by their authors). - Highlights differences between 'electronic' plagiarism and traditional plagiarism. - Free software that allows teachers to compare papers and determine if one is plagiarized, plus links to other resources. - An article written through conversations with university professors. It is designed to provide teachers with the tools to encourage academic honesty and open communication in the classroom. - Information for deterring "technology enhanced academic dishonesty". - From the University of California, Irvine. - Clearinghouse for articles, resources, and information about plagiarism. - Sean-Paul Kelley, owner of the weblog he named The Agonist, got caught fraudulently writing about the invasion of Iraq by plagiarizing a paid news service called Stratfor. - Article by Justin Zobel investigates an Australian case in 2001 in which around thirty students appear to have obtained material from a private tutor. Some details were reported in the press during 2003 when a student and the tutor were sentenced in court. [PDF] - Bloggers are naming names, creating an award for news organizations who plagiarize weblogs without attribution. (December 01, 2005) - Detection software will search 800 million websites to stop students plagiarising from the internet. (June 01, 2004) - Plagiarism detection software isn't just for academic papers any more. (April 02, 2004) - Suggests that plagiarism and cheating aren't always the same. Argues that the emphasis on "originality" for everything written or otherwise created is a hard target to hit. (January 01, 2004) - Russ Hunt writes, "The challenge of easier and more convenient plagiarism is to be welcomed. This rising tide threatens to change things for... the better." (November 01, 2002) - Google Answers sometimes takes school kids up on the offer to answer homework questions or parts of assignments for a price. (September 10, 2002) - Better questions as an antidote for rampant Internet plagiarism. (September 02, 2002) - Purveyors of collegiate prose are finding life on the dark side of online commerce quite lucrative. (August 26, 2002) - A Realaudio-format radio report about the temptation to cheat via the internet on college coursework and how professors are fighting this trend. (segment is 9 minutes 30 seconds in duration). (May 21, 2002) - Realaudio-format radio report about the recent suspension of a clergyman for plagiarism (segment is 4 minutes and 15 seconds in duration). (March 13, 2002) - Realaudio-format radio report. NPR talks with Thomas Mallon, author of Stolen Words: Forays into the Origins and Ravages of Plagiarism, about the discovery of plagiarism by well-known authors such as Steven Ambrose, and research techniques which should help avoid the problem (Segment is 4 minutes and 30 seconds in duration). (January 10, 2002) - Faculty in high schools and colleges say the internet is making cheating too easy and too tempting. (September 04, 2001) - One student has been expelled, and more than 100 cases of plagiarism remain to be resolved at the University of Virginia after a physics professor used a computer program to catch students who turned in duplicate papers, or portions of papers that appeared to have been copied. (August 09, 2001) - Term paper websites are proliferating and making a lot of money. Digital tools and services have been created to catch the cheaters who use the purchased papers or who cut and paste from various internet sites. (February 29, 2000) - Account of how a University of California at Berkeley professor caught students cheating. (January 01, 2000) - A group of students accused of sharing "programming solutions" by email now face fines or expulsion. (August 15, 1999) - Academic plagiarism has long been a problem in computer science faculties, but instructors and other university staff are increasingly turning to a series of free, Web-based tools to ferret out plagiarized code and catch cheaters. (February 23, 1998) - Boston University is suing eight companies that sell term papers over the Internet. The school wants the federal courts to enforce a Massachusetts law banning the sale of term papers. (February 08, 1998) - 1997 article discussing the easily availability of online term papers. (January 01, 1907)
