Plagiarism: Prevention and Detection

 

Use of the World Wide Web as a research resource has exacerbated the problem of plagiarism in colleges and universities worldwide. The links and articles listed below will provide you with information and techniques for prevention, deterrence and detection of plagiarism.

 Information and Prevention: Sites for Faculty / Sites for Students

PLAGIARISM Detection Services

 

Information and Prevention:

Sites for Faculty

Plagiarism (SUNY Albany: Center for Excellence in Teaching & Learning)

This site, geared toward faculty, provides links to definitions and methods for avoidance of plagiarism, papers and commentaries on plagiarism, preventative websites, software as well as paper dealers.

Cheating 101: Paper Mills and You (Coastal Carolina University)

This page comes from a Teaching Effectiveness Seminar held at CCU and "is aimed at providing faculty with an overview of the current state of Internet Paper Mills, how to locate Paper Mills, how to detect plagiarized papers, how to track down suspicious papers, and how to combat plagiarism."

A Faculty Guide to Cyber-Plagiarism (University of Alberta Libraries)

This site includes pages such as: Why Students Plagiarize, Preventing Plagiarism, Detecting Plagiarism, Terminology as well as pdf handouts for students.

Plagiarism.org (University of California, Berkeley)

This site includes information on the problem of plagiarism as well as links to articles. It also functions as a gateway to Turnitin.com, a fee-based service which detects copied or paraphrased passages from the Internet.

Plagiarism - How to Reduce or Eliminate It (Florida International University)

This quick tips page, produced by the Academy for the Art of Teaching, provides specific strategies for combatting plagiarism in your course.

Plagiarized.com: The Instructors Guide to Internet Plagiarism

This privately funded site was created to assist instructors with evaluating if a research paper is suspect of containing plagiarized information obtained from the internet. It provides information like Dead Giveaways, Online Training, and "What to do if you catch a cheater".

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Sites for Students

Paraphrase: Write it in Your Own Words (Purdue University)

Here's another site that provides direction for students. This page comes from Purdue's Online Writing Lab. It provides examples and directions for paraphrasing properly. In addition, it links to a page of exercises for practicing paraphrasing and a page on quoting, paraphrasing and summarizing. There are printer-friendly and PDF versions available on this page.

Plagiarism: What It is and How to Recognize and Avoid It (Indiana University)

This site, designed for students, provides examples of correct and incorrect paraphrasing with commentary.

Plagiarism (Northwestern University)

On this page, you'll find Guidelines for Proper Attribution including examples with clear explanations as well as sample citations for direct quotation, interpretation and paraphrasing.

Avoiding Plagiarism (Ohio University)

This page includes links to definitions of plagiarism, plagiarism policies from various universities as well as information on preventing your students from plagiarizing.

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Plagiarism Detection Services:

The following services and programs are available for subscription or purchase. NOTE: Although they assist in determining instances of plagiarism on the public internet, there are no online services available to check plagiarism from subscription databases (e.g., periodical indexes and abstracts, full-text journal archives, or financial services) used for student research.

Turnitin.com (available at FIU)

Turnitin.com searches "Both a current and extensively archived copy of the publicly accessible Internet (more than 4.5 billion pages updated at a rate of 40 million pages per day),...millions of published works, including the ProQuest commercial database, ABI/Inform, Periodical Abstracts, Business Dateline, and tens of thousands of electronic books including the Gutenburg Collection of Literary Classics, [and] millions of student papers already submitted to Turnitin."

EVE2: The Essay Verification Engine

EVE2 searches the public internet. "While it would be technically impossible with today's technology to build a program that could check every web site on the entire Internet, EVE2 comes as close as possible by employing the most advanced searching tools available to locate suspect sites."

Glatt Plagiarism Services

Unlike the two services listed above, Glatt services do not search the internet for occurrences of plagiarism. Glatt produces three different software programs, a tutorial, a screening program and a self-test, designed to help detect and deter plagiarism as well as to encourage academic honesty.

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Last Revised 2005-02-09 10:33:45