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
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
Avoiding Plagiarism (Hamilton
College)
- This site, provides general advice on
using sources
of information as well as overcoming the common
pitfall of
plagiarizing while notetaking. Students would probably
find this
site helpful.
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
(free trial available)
Turnitin.com searches the public internet
and
"have recently been acquiring databases of papers from
paper
mill sites that are not publicly accessible."
EVE2: The Essay Verification
Engine (free trial available)
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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Selected Electronic
Articles:
These links are accessible to FIU students,
faculty or
staff searching on-campus, or off-campus using the
proxy
server.
Malouff, John M. "Applying an employee-motivation
model to prevent student plagiarism." Journal of Education
for Business, v.72, Sept./Oct. 1996,
p.58.
Gibelman, Margaret. "The downside of cyberspace:
cheating made easy." Journal of Social Work Education,
v.35, n.3, Fall 1999,
p.367.
Talab, Rosemary Sturdevant. "Copyright,
plagiarism,
and Internet-based research projects: three
"golden rules"."
TechTrends, v.44, n.4, May
2000,
p.7.
Bugeja, Michael. "Bust a plagiarist in 30
minutes
or less." The Quill, v.88, n.3, Apr. 2000,
p.44.
Anderson, Gregory L. "Cyberplagiarism: a look
at
the Web term paper sites." College & Research
Libraries
News, v.60, n.5, May 1999,
p.371.
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This page is maintained by:
Stephanie
Brenenson
brenenso@fiu.edu
Library Instruction
Coordinator
University Park, Green Library
Florida
International University
Information
and
Prevention: Sites
for Faculty / Sites for
Students
Plagiarism
Detection
Services
Selected
Electronic
Articles