Combating Cybercheating: Resources for Teachers

Defining Plagiarism, Proper Citing: Guides for Students:

• A.P.A. and M.L.A. Style Guides.
  OWL Writing Lab - Purdue University
       (http://owl.english.purdue.edu/)
  
  
• How to Avoid Plagiarism: The movie.
  Rutgers University Libraries
      (http://library.camden.rutgers.edu/EducationalModule/Plagiarism/)
  
  
• Is it Plagiarism Yet?.
  Purdue University Online Writing Lab
       (http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/589/02/)
  
  
• Oops, I Plagiarized.
  University of California, Los Angeles
      (http://unitproj.library.ucla.edu/col/bruinsuccess/03/01.cfm)
  
  
• Plagiarism: The crime of intellectual kidnapping.
  San Jose State University
       (http://tutorials.sjlibrary.org/tutorial/plagiarism/selector.htm)
  
  
• The Plagiarism Court: You be the judge
  Online tutorial and quiz from  Fairfield University, Dimenna-Nyselius Library.
       (http://data.fairfield.edu/library/lib_plagiarismcourt.html)
  
  
• Virtual Academic Integrity Lab.
  Handouts and interactive tutorials from the Univ. of Maryland University College
      (www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/vail/home.html
  
  
• You Quote It, You Note It!
  Vaughn Memorial Library, Acadia University
      (http://library.acadiau.ca/tutorials/plagiarism/)
  
  

Examples of plagiarized versus non-plagiarized sentences and paragraphs:


• Plagiarism - and How to Avoid It.
  By Sandra Jamieson, Drew University.
       (http://depts.drew.edu/composition/Avoiding_Plagiarism.htm)
  
  
• Plagiarism: What it is and how to recognize and avoid it.
  Indiana Univ. Bloomington. Writing Tutorial Services.
       (http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/pamphlets/plagiarism.shtml)
  
  

Combating Cybercheating: Strategies for Teachers:

• Anti-Plagiarism Strategies for Research Papers.
  By Robert Harris.
       (http://www.virtualsalt.com/antiplag.htm)
  
  
• Cheating 101: Papermills and you
  Tip-offs to a Web-plagiarized paper by Margaret Fain and Peggy Bates, Kimball Library at Coastal Carolina Univ.
      (http://www.coastal.edu/library/presentations/papermil.html)
  
  
• Designing Online Courses to Discourage Dishonesty.
  By Barbara Christe.
        (http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/eqm0348.pdf
  
  
• Plagiarism and Anti-Plagiarism.
  By Heyward Ehrlich.
       (http://newark.rutgers.edu/~ehrlich/plagiarism598.html)
  
  
• Plagiarism and How to Avoid It [lesson plan].
  By David Gardner.
       (http://ec.hku.hk/plagiarism/introduction.htm)
  
  
• Plagiarism Prevention.
  University of Wisconsin-Platteville.
       (http://www.uwplatt.edu/library/reference/plagiarism.html)
  
  
• That Cheating Heart: Keeping plagiarism out of your classroom.
  Mississippi State Univ. Libraries.
       (http://library.msstate.edu/content/templates/?a=393&z=76)
  

Plagiarism Detection Services (mostly commercial sites, some with free trials):

• CheckforPlagiarism.net.
       (http://www.checkforplagiarism.net)
  
  
• CopyCatch.
       (http://www.copycatchgold.com)
  
  
• Copyscape.
       (http://www.copyscape.com/ - check if a website has copied your website)
  
  
• Doc Cop.
       (http://www.doccop.com/ - checks up to 75 words for free)
  
  
• Eve.
       (http://www.canexus.com/eve/index.shtml)
  
  
• Glatt Plagiarism Services, Inc.
       (http://plagiarism.com/)
  
  
• SafeAssign, from Blackboard.
       (http://www.safeassign.com)
  
  
• Scriptum: Anti-plagiarism Service.
       (http://www.scriptum.ca)
  
  
• Turnitin.com.
       (http://www.turnitin.com/static/home.html)
  
  
• WCopyfind from the Plagiarism Resource Site, Univ. of Virginia.
       (http://plagiarism.phys.virginia.edu/)
  
  

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