Lukol Directory: Reference: Education: Educators: Academic Dishonesty: Plagiarism

Salon - The Web's Plagiarism Police
Author writes how plagiarism.org found a copy of the author's thesis online but did not recognize it as such. It instead flagged the author as a plagiarist. Plagiarism detection in general is also discussed.
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/1999/06/...

Plagiarism Today (PT)
A site targeted at webmasters and copyright holders regarding the issue of plagiarism online.
http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/

Plagiarism Advisory Service at Northumbria University
Access to a range of resources relating to the prevention and detection of plagiarism in the academic community.
http://www.jiscpas.ac.uk/

Wired News: Thin Line Splits Cheating, Smarts
Google Answers sometimes takes school kids up on the offer to answer homework questions or parts of assignments for a price.
http://www.wired.com/news/school/0,1383,54...

John Templeton Foundation: College and Character
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.
http://www.collegeandcharacter.org/

Plagiarism and the Web
Presents a concise list of methods for combating plagiarism in the classroom. From Bruce Leland of Western Illinois University.
http://www.wiu.edu/users/mfbhl/wiu/plagiar...

Wired News: Cheating's Never Been Easier
Faculty in high schools and colleges say the internet is making cheating too easy and too tempting.
http://www.wired.com/news/school/0,1383,45...

Email 'cheating' students face mass expulsion (The Register)
A group of students accused of sharing "programming solutions" by email now face fines or expulsion.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/1999/08/15/em...

Antiplagiarism Strategies
Ideas to use in preventing and detecting plagiarism.
http://www.virtualsalt.com/antiplag.htm

BBC News - Web checks for student cheating
Detection software will search 800 million websites to stop students plagiarising from the internet.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/educati...

CNN.com - Boston University takes on term paper firms
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.
http://www.cnn.com/US/9802/08/term.paper/i...

Cut-and-Paste Plagiarism
Preventing, detecting and tracking online plagiarism.
http://alexia.lis.uiuc.edu/~janicke/plagia...

Wired News: Got Cheaters? Ask New Questions
Better questions as an antidote for rampant Internet plagiarism.
http://www.wired.com/news/school/0,1383,54...

Wired News: Plagiarist Booted; Others Wait
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.
http://www.wired.com/news/school/0,1383,45...

Downloadable Term Papers: What's a Prof. to Do?
Article by Tom Rocklin.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~centeach/resources/i...

NPR : All Things Considered: Internet & College Cheating
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 and 30 seconds in duration).
http://discover.npr.org/features/feature.j...

Purdue University - Avoiding Plagiarism
A handout designed to help writers develop strategies for knowing how to avoid accidental plagiarism.
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/res...

SparkNotes: The Plagiarism Plague
Study guide company explains its stance on plagiarism, explains what it is and how to entirely avoid it.
http://www.sparknotes.com/help/plagiarism....

UIUC Computer Science Cheating Policy
From the University of California, Irvine.
http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/undergraduate/cheat...

Plagiarism
What It is and How to Recognize and Avoid It. From Indiana University Writing Resources page.
http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/pamphlets.shtm...

Wired News: Catching Digital Cheaters
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.
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,3...

The New Plagiarism
Highlights differences between 'electronic' plagiarism and traditional plagiarism.
http://www.fno.org/may98/cov98may.html

Georgetown University: What is Plagiarism?
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.
http://www.georgetown.edu/honor/plagiarism...

Internet Essay Exposer
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.
http://www.mattclare.ca/essay/

Web Miner: Plagiarism
Clearinghouse for articles, resources, and information about plagiarism.
http://www.web-miner.com/plagiarism

Wired News: Noted War Blogger Cops to Copying
Sean-Paul Kelley, owner of the blog he named The Agonist, got caught fraudulently writing about the invasion of Iraq by plagiarizing a paid news service called Stratfor.
http://www.wired.com/news/conflict/0,2100,...

Catching Computer Science Cheaters (Wired News)
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.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,128...

Kimbel Library - Cheating 101: Internet Paper Mills
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.
http://www.coastal.edu/library/presentatio...

Talking with Students About Plagiarism Don'ts and Dos
Describes language to use in a syllabus to help clarify what plagiarism is and what responsible writing practices are. Teachers are welcome to use any or all of the content in their own syllabi.
http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/technotes/...

Combating Cybercheating - Resources for Teachers
Links to discussions of plagiarism and techniques to combat it.
http://www.epcc.edu/vvlib/cheat.htm

NPR : All Things Considered : Preaching and Plagiarism
Realaudio-format radio report about the recent suspension of a clergyman for plagiarism (segment is 4 minutes and 15 seconds in duration).
http://discover.npr.org/features/feature.j...

Copy-Cats, Copyright & Clones
Internet plagiarism examples, remedies, proper behavior, and annotated related links.
http://members.tripod.com/Caroline_Bowen/p...

Plagiarism and the Internet
Bibliography of print resources on plagiarism and the web.
http://homepages.wmich.edu/~rea/CW/plag.ht...

NYTimes.com- Colleges Use Sites to Expose Cheaters
Account of how a University of California at Berkeley professor caught students cheating.
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/01/...

History News Network: What Is Plagiarism?
Definitions of plagiarism from the American Historical Association, Modern Language Association, and the American Psychological Association.
http://hnn.us/articles/514.html

Center for Academic Integrity
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.
http://www.academicintegrity.org/

Plagiarism: The Other Form of Flattery
We found a plagiarist. This is our form of 'web-gilante' justice.
http://unquietmind.com/plagiarist.html

Plagiarism and Copyright Infringement
Article briefly discusses plagiarism in commercial and educational settings on the web.
http://www.cciw.com/content/plagiarism.htm...

Teachers Adjust Lesson Plans as Web Fuels Plagiarism - Los Angeles Times
As cut-and-paste plagiarism proliferates, traditional school term papers are being eliminated in favor of oral exams, presentations, and meticulously documented stage-by-stage writing assignments.
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/l...

Lemonade Plagiarism Tutorial
Professor's tutorial refuting excuses and bad logic used to try to justify plagiarism.
http://www.coedu.usf.edu/~dorn/Tutorials/p...

Plagiarism: Definitions, Examples and Penalties
Documents used by the University of Kentucky Department of Chemistry.
http://www.chem.uky.edu/courses/common/pla...

School of Education, Indiana University: How to Recognize Plagiarism
A tutorial with many examples, practice questions with feedback, and a test.
http://www.indiana.edu/~istd/

Avoiding Plagiarism
Examples and practice exercises from Rio Salado College.
http://www.rio.maricopa.edu/distance_learn...

Plagiarism: A Guide For Law Lecturers
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.
http://www.ukcle.ac.uk/resources/trns/plag...

Plagiarism and Anti-Plagiarism
Guide for teachers and faculty discussing some issues and responses to the problem.
http://newark.rutgers.edu/~ehrlich/plagiar...

The Plagiarism Resource Center
Free software that allows teachers to compare papers and determine if one is plagiarized, plus links to other resources.
http://plagiarism.phys.virginia.edu/

Antiplagiarism.com
Publisher's site providing information about The Plagiarism Handbook, a book with information about preventing, detecting, and dealing with plagiarism.
http://www.pyrczak.com/antiplagiarism/

Electronic Plagiarism Seminar
Tips for preventing and identifying plagiarism, including scientific fraud. Lists of plagiarism detection software sites and term paper mills. Bibliography and webography.
http://www.lemoyne.edu/library/plagiarism....

Plagiarism
From CETL Resources for Teaching.
http://albany.edu/cetl/teaching/plagiarism...

BBC NEWS Magazine - Cut and paste
Bloggers are naming names, creating an award for news organizations who plagiarize weblogs without attribution.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/448471...

Copyright Issues on the Web
Briefly discusses the relationship between copyright and plagiarism.
http://iteslj.org/Articles/Harris-Copyrigh...

Plagiarism: A Misplaced Emphasis
An article by Brian Martin published in Journal of Information Ethics, 1994. Argues that "concern about plagiarism has been diverted from the most serious and pervasive problems and channelled into excessive concern about less serious problems."
http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/sts/bmartin/pub...

A Few Words Pbout Plagiarism
Real examples of Internet copyright violations. How to avoid plagiarism and cite Web-based material appropriately.
http://members.tripod.com/Caroline_Bowen/p...

Technology Exposes Cheating at U-Va. (Washingtonpost.com)
Physics professor's computer search triggers investigation of 122 students.
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/...

Wired News: Where Cheaters Often Prosper
Purveyors of collegiate prose are finding life on the dark side of online commerce quite lucrative.
http://www.wired.com/news/school/0,1383,54...

Cheating
Information that may be useful to readers interested in deterring "technology enhanced academic dishonesty". 
http://tlt.suny.edu/cheating.htm

In Praise of Plagiarism
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."
http://www.stu.ca/~hunt/plagiary.htm

Wired News: Electronic Snoops Tackle Copiers
Plagiarism detection software isn't just for academic papers any more.
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,...

SCC-LRC/Library: Research Guide for Plagiarism
A collection of Internet links and information on plagiarism.
http://www2.scc-fl.com/lrc/guides/plagiari...

Dalhousie University: Plagiarism and Intellectual Honesty
Dalhousie's policies, news about plagiarism in university settings, and resources for faculty and students to help understand, avoid and detect plagiarism.
http://plagiarism.dal.ca/

NPR : All Things Considered: Plagiarism
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).
http://discover.npr.org/features/feature.j...

Plagiarized.com
Works to help instructors and parents better understand how the internet can facilitate plagiarism. Presents strategies to prevent plagiarism, explains some of the underlying causes, and provides advice on dealing with confirmed cases of plagiarism. Links to news stories on the topic are provided.
http://www.plagiarized.com/

Technorati: Plagiarism
Links to various weblog entries dealing with the topic of plagiarism (as self-described by their authors).
http://www.technorati.com/tag/Plagiarism

Plagiarism and How to Avoid It
Techniques, listing references, self-tests and worksheets from David Gardner of the University of Hong Kong.
http://ec.hku.hk/plagiarism/introduction.h...

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