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OVERVIEW

Poster Credit: The University of Windsor – Academic Integrity Office

While plagiarism may be “an ancient art” (as Stephen Moss put it in a 2005 ), the advent of the internet ushered in many new and frighteningly easy ways for students to plagiarize papers, from purchasing papers from online clearinghouses to pasting together bits and pieces of information (unquoted and uncited) from a variety of internet sources. Luckily, new technologies have also provided teachers with tools for preventing and/or detecting plagiarism.

This page provides resources for helping your students understand and avoid plagiarism, as well as resources for using plagiarism tools.

Also see: Resources for Writers: Academic Integrity for student resources related to academic integrity.

HELPING STUDENTS UNDERSTAND AND AVOID PLAGIARISM

(York University)
A tutorial that explains and demonstrates the issues involved in academic integrity. The tutorial provides case studies and a handy academic integrity checklist.

(Purdue OWL)
“There are few intellectual offenses more serious than plagiarism in academic and professional contexts. This resource offers advice on how to avoid plagiarism in your work.”

(University of Toronto Writing)
“Knowing how to build personal ideas on past knowledge is a central goal of university study, but it sometimes seems that students hear about it mainly through warnings and threats. Here are some practical ways to lessen the risk of plagiarism in your classes while using writing as a way for students to explore ideas and learn ways of thinking.”

(Purdue OWL)
“This handout provides a few general guidelines about fair use policies and copyright laws but no concrete legal advice. Anyone dealing with a specific legal issue or dilemma should contact a lawyer. Anyone making decisions about using multimedia in a class project should first consult the usage policy of their school or institution. The US Copyright Act contains relevant but complex sections that can inform teachers and students making a decision.”

(Elizabeth Boling and Theodore Frick, Indiana University Bloomington School of Education)
A tutorial that first covers when and how to give credit, then offers some examples of real plagiarism cases. This is followed by some examples of cut-and-paste plagiarism and improper paraphrasing. The tutorial ends with a 10-question activity on identifying plagiarism.

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An excerpt from the University Code of Conduct that explains ¾«Æ·³ÉÈ˸£ÀûÔÚÏß’s academic dishonesty policy.

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Includes the First-Year Writing Program’s Plagiarism Policy, resources to help you avoid plagiarism, and information on documentation.

(online article at Inside Higher Education, Scott Jaschik, January 6, 2010)
Discusses a study that found student plagiarism may be reduced through proper education about “ethical writing practices.”

(iTunes U, The Writing Irregulars, Northern Virginia Community College, 14:41 min.)
Podcast by three writing professors at Northern Virginia Community College that discusses the issues surrounding plagiarism that college students face.

(University of Minnesota Center for Writing, Lillian Bridwell-Bowles)
“No system is foolproof if you have determined plagiarists in your classes, but the following are some tips that might thwart the budding thieves whose major crime to date has been procrastination.”

(Rutgers University Paul Robeson Library)
This video is an educational parody of a typical classic 50’s classroom environment. It is part of a 3-part series. Part 1 is (2:17) Part 2 is (2:26) and Part 3 is (2:03). There is also a non-interactive video quiz associated with these episodes (2:56)

Understand what constitutes plagiarism and how to avoid this serious problem.

USING PLAGIARISM PREVENTION TOOLS

Canvas and Turnitin Integration:

• (HCC eLearning) – Posted on YouTube, October 10, 2011 | length: 3:38 – A brief video that shows instructors how to designate assignments as Turnitin assignments and set their submission guidelines. The video also shows how students submit their assignments and receive a confirmation page.
• (HCC eLearning) – Posted on YouTube, October 10, 2011 | length: 4:55 – A brief video that shows instructors how to view Originality Reports, use the Grademark feature to insert feedback, and grade student writing in Turnitin.

– As a teacher, you can usually tell when a student has plagiarized, and often a quick search on Google will, sadly, confirm your suspicions. It’s quite simple–.

(Jonathan Bailey, PlagiarismToday)

• : “A great tool for quick plagiarism searches.”
• : “A Copyscape alternative that is free and based on Yahoo!”
• : “A free service that can automate basic plagiarism checks and email you results.”
• : “A visual search engine that looks for copies of an image.”
• : “Offers feed modification and analysis tools that can make detecting RSS scraping much easier.”

“Used by over 1.6 million instructors at more than 10,000 institutions in 135 countries, Turnitin is the world’s leading cloud-based software for evaluating student work.” Its features include an Originality Report that determines plagiarism, Grademark for providing feedback, and peer review resources.

“SafeAssign™ is a plagiarism prevention service, offered by Blackboard to its Blackboard Learning System Enterprise, Vista Enterprise and CE Enterprise clients. This service helps educators prevent plagiarism by detecting unoriginal content in student papers. In addition to acting as a plagiarism deterrent, it also has features designed to aid in educating students about plagiarism and importance of proper attribution of any borrowed content.”