Plagiarism


 * **DETECTION TIPS**

<[|__http://www.academicintegrity.org/__]> //Organization which encourages the development of a culture of academic integrity. Membership part of site offers many good resources.//
 * Center for Academic Integrity**

 //Extremely useful site. Lots of tips for instructors AND parents. List of annotated LINKS includes "Actual Cheating Sites".//
 * The Definitive Guide to Internet Plagiarism** //(See also Plagiarized.com listed below.)//

 //Articulate and comprehensive guide for teachers concerned with the issue. Provides tips for detecting, training aids, links to paper mills, search services, and articles about plagiarism.//
 * Downers Grove North High School Library**

 //Article and links about plagiarism, paper mills, and suggestions for prevention.//
 * Plagiarism and the Web**


 * Using Search Engines.** Using one of these search engines you can enter a phrase or short paragraph (in quotes) and search the web. This technique is similar to using a free detection service except it searches across the web at large.


 * All The Web [|http://www.alltheweb.com]**
 * Google [|http://www.google.com]**

|| //The following are sites which are "free". Some may require registration, but there is no charge. They offer tips, instructions, and links to sites which either filter or are a source of plagiarism. You will also see here several sites offering free software which you can download and use to scan your own students' work.//
 * **FREE DETECTION**

// Spanish language service with downloadable software for comparing texts.
 * DetectaCopias**

//**DOC Cop** <[|http://www.doccop.com]>// Australian service with fast turn-around, capable of comparing multiple documents at a time again each other or against the Web.

//**Glatt Plagiarism Services, Inc**. <[|http://www.plagiarism.com/self.detect.htm>//] This site offers a free self-detect test for students to check their own material for plagiarism.//

<[|http://www.jplag.de]> //German based service specializing in programming code, but also accommodates plain text documents. For teachers only! You must register to use.//
 * Jplag**

<[|http://www.noodletools.com]> //Site offers a number of free resources for teaching proper citation and quotation styles.//
 * Noodletools**

<[|http://www.plagiarism.phys.virginia.edu/home.html>//] Free software for download developed by Professor Louis A. Bloomfield to detect similarities between texts turned in by his physics students. Very effective at identifying similar phrases in works being compared. Several versions available for download. ||
 * The Plagiarism Resource Site**
 * **PREVENTION TRAINING**

 An annotated list of links about plagiarism, a result of the designated search.
 * About.com > Education > Secondary School Educators > Cheating and Education**

//**Cut-and-Paste Plagiarism: Preventing, Detecting and Tracking Online Plagiarism** <[|http://alexia.lis.uiuc.edu/~janicke/plagiary.htm>//] Hot linked essay on the titled topic.//

<[|http://www.csd99.k12.il.us/north/library/plagiarism.htm>//] Articulate and comprehensive guide for teachers concerned with the issue. Provides tips for detecting, training aids, links to paper mills, search services, and articles about plagiarism.
 * Downers Grove North High School Library**

//**EasyBib.com** <[|http://www.easybib.com]>// Great //free// site for learning how or actually creating citations online which can be printed out or saved to disk. Offers MLA and APA formats for inexpensive student subscription or administrator subscription services.

//**Ethics 101: Cheating, Plagiarism, Site Evaluation -- Copyright and Your Students** [|]// Great list of sites that are useful for educating students about the ethics involved with copyrights, cheating, and plagiarism. (Formerly "Librarians as an Integration Partner".)

//**Noodletools** <[|http://www.noodletools.com]>// Site offers a number of free resources for teaching proper citation and quotation styles.

//**Faculty Guide to Cyber-Plagiarism** <[|http://www.library.ualberta.ca/guides/plagiarism/>//] Website full of resources and information designed for the faculty at University of Alberta (Canada). Very in-depth and easy to use. Very helpful!//

<[|http://www.fno.org/may98/cov98may.html>//] This article provides teachers with methods to discourage plagiarism. Among them: "Discourage 'Trivial Pursuits,'" that is, encourage students to solve problems, instead of sending them on "information scavenger hunts." Source: Jamie McKenzie, From Now On, vol. 7 no. 8, May 1998.
 * The New Plagiarism: Seven Antidotes to Prevent Highway Robbery in an Electronic Age** *

//**Plagiarism Prevention Zone** < [|http://college.hmco.com/english/plagiarism_prevention.html>//] Houghton Mifflin's learning modules on plagiarism. Ten short tutorials which explain things like, "Why not Plagiarize?", "How and When to Quote", or "Why Plagiarism Should Matter to You". Also a jumping off point for other very useful interactive resources (under .../english/resources/elibrary/1e/students/).//

<[|http://www.plagiarism.phys.virginia.edu/>//] Very informative and intriguing site giving access to free software to download, other sites for educating oneself on the problems of plagiarism, and documentation for at least one case of proposed plagiarism outside of the University of Virginia. Created by Physics Professor Louis A. Bloomfield in response to discovering a wide-spread case of on campus plagiarism in May of 2001.
 * Plagiarism Resource Site at Charlottesville, VA**

//**Plagiarism Theme Page** <[|http://www.cln.org/themes/plagiarism.html>//] More links to links about preventing, detecting, and tracking online plagiarism.//

<[|http://www.plagiarized.com/>//] "The purpose of this site is to help teachers or professors (or even parents) determine if a given piece of academic work has been obtained from the Internet." || These sites have a fee or charge for service. They indicate their service is a deterrent to student plagiarism. The process, in some cases, requires students to submit their own work to the online website. The work is then compared to the company's own database of documents for similarities. A report on each student's work is e-mailed to the instructor, identifying what is plagiarized. Any work submitted to the service is kept as part of the master database for future comparisons. In other cases, the site offers software for purchase and use in schools to teach what is plagiarism and how to detect and/or prevent it.
 * Plagiarized.com**
 * **FEE-BASED SERVICES**

//**EVE2** 


 * Integriguard** <[|http://www.integriguard.com]>


 * Glatt Plagiarism Services, Inc**. 


 * My Drop Box** 


 * NoodleBib 6** 


 * Plagiarism.org** <[|http://www.plagiarism.org]>


 * Turn It In** <[|http://www.turnitin.com/]>// ||
 * **POTENTIAL PAPER MILLS**

 One of the more "notorious paper mills"
 * Cheathouse.com [House of Cheat]**

//**GradeSaver** <[|http://www.gradesaver.com]>// This is an online editing and proofreading service for students, designed to assist them to improve their own papers. Also on the site are copyrighted literature study guides (ClassicNotes) written by Harvard students. The site editors offer "a complete grammatical, substantive, technical, and stylistic revision of your essay or document with a focus on the academic environment." Students may be tempted to ignore the posted warnings against plagiarism.

//**123 Help Me** <[|http://www.123helpme.com]>// A website designed to "help" students.

//**Other People's Papers**// // Offers free essays and papers. Has some offensive rap music lyrics playing when you arrive at the site.

//**The Paper Store** <[|http://www.allpapers.com/intro.htm>//] Again, one more "paper mill".//

<[|http://www.pinkmonkey.com]> //According to the header, this is "The leading provider of Literature Summaries on the Internet." As such, it might be a source of many plagiarized items.//
 * PinkMonkey.com**

<[|http://www.slashdocs.com]> //Not exactly designed to offer resources for the taking, but could easily be misused. This site asks people to upload documents as a web depository for the under used documents. The site owners offer to get these documents into search engines so the authors can get more exposure to their creations. Site also indicates the materials are copyrighted and not free for the taking.//
 * S/L/A/S/H/D/O/C/S/**

 O//ne more in a myriad of "paper mills" on the web. (This one may require some "digging" to get to the actual papers.)//
 * School Sucks**

<[|http://www.sparknotes.com]> //Students often obtain material from this site and turn it in as their own. Study guides and full text documents pose a great temptation.//
 * Sparknotes.com**

As the school year begins it is a good time to help teachers and students avoid the pitfalls involved with plagiarism. This edition of Web Wonders provides some excellent teaching tools and resources for you and your teaching colleagues to help students avoid this practice. Consider developing a lesson for your research teaching sessions, which explores the practice of plagiarism and the tools available to expose it. [|**An Antidote to Plagiarism**] Here is a well-crafted lesson on teaching students in Grades 5-10 how to paraphrase and avoid plagiarism. Students are encouraged to outline, learn new vocabulary and think for themselves. The topic for the lesson is the strawberry poison arrow frog. The lesson is available online and in printable PDF format. http://ousd.k12.ca.us/%26sim;codypren/antidote.html [|**Avoiding Plagiarism**] This site is designed for college students but works well with high school students. The handout contains a well-written description of what plagiarism is, when to credit and not credit sources, and a set of questions to help test the student's understanding and knowledge of when to cite sources. The site's handout on paraphrasing is quite useful. Housed at http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/ research/r_pharaphr.html, this quick handout explains various ways to improve a writer's skill at this task. http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/print/ research/r_plagiar.html [|**University of Alberta Libraries Guide for Faculty**] This site includes a discussion of why students plagiarize, tips for helping prevent this practice, detection tips and a number of handouts for students. The handouts contain tips on doing research and paraphrasing information found in reliable sources. http://www.library.ualberta.ca/guides/plagiarism/ index.html [|**Plagiarized.com**] The sample essays on this site feature three that are great examples of plagiarism. In addition to providing the papers in easy-to-print format, instructors are given a concise list of problems with each essay. http://www.plagiarized.com/workshop.shtml [|**University of Hong Kong Plagarism**] Another good teaching tool is the self-test portion of this plagiarism site. Students can use this site to test their writing skills and improve their paraphrasing ability. The activity can also work well with a single computer classroom and a projection device. [|http://ec.hku.hk/plagiarism/self%5ftest.htm] [|**Cybercheats**] Your time will be well spent if you completely explore this site where you will find wonderful reference tips and a superb PowerPoint presentation. Students will be engaged as they travel through Terrible Timmy's Tale of Plagiarism and gather practice in spotting plagiarized work. The site also includes a bibliography of paper mill sites. http://reference.camden.lib.nj.us/classes/garwood/ cybercheats/class.htm [|**Because We Care Education Society of Alberta**] This organization has developed a superb six-step tutorial on plagiarism.. The materials are developed to help teachers cope with the ever increasing challenge of using the Internet as a reference source and students' ability to easily find and plagiarize papers. Student handouts, suggestions for dealing with suspected and confirmed cheating and sample plagiarism policies can all be found at this site. http://www.2learn.ca/mapset/SafetyNet/plagiarism/Pl agiarism0.html [|**The Writing Place's Tips for Writers**] Advanced middle school writers and high school students will benefit from visiting this site. It features basic writing hints, a quick one-page self-assessment guide and well-written suggestions for avoiding plagiarism. The plagiarism section includes concise examples and tips for improving the user's ability to paraphrase. http://www.writing.nwu.edu/tips/index.html [|**Quoting, Paraphrasing and Summarizing**] Another useful handout on can be found at this site. Concise discussions and tips on these writing skills are provided in a well-designed format. Students may also want to consult other helpful resources found at The Learning Centre, http://www.lc.unsw.edu.au/olib.html. http://www.lc.unsw.edu.au/onlib/pdf/paraquo.pdf [|**Paper Mills Sites**] Finally, be sure to check out the extensive list of paper mill sites on this site. There are over 225 general sites listed, and a link to a list of subject specific paper mill sites. http://www.coastal.edu/library/ mills2.htm. [|**PowerPoint Presentations on Plagiarism**] One Power Point presentation developed by Suzanne Preate was used at a professional development session for junior and senior high school teachers. http://web.syr.edu/%26sim;smpreate/ plagiarism2002.ppt Another well-developed presentation by Sheila Walrath, teacher-librarian at the Marcos de Niza High School Learning Resources & Technology Center, is at http://www.tuhsd.k12.az.us/ Marcos_de_Niza_HS/Depts/ Departments/lrc/plagiarism.ppt. A third option designed to help high school teachers discourage plagiarism and cheating can be found at: http://www.phs.d211.org/Media/ Plagiarism.ppt. [|**Guide to Grammar & Writing**] This site provides a number of well-structured teaching materials for helping strengthen students' writing skills and make avoiding plagiarism even easier for them. The sections on essay and research papers and the PowerPoint presentations are especially useful. http://webster.commnet.edu/ grammar/index.htm [|**Amistad**] Students can also learn about plagiarism by studying the lawsuit involved with this movie. Information housed here can serve as the basis of the discussion. Be sure to have students examine the handout on the similarities between "Echo of Lions" and "Black Mutiny." http://www.law.cornell.edu/background/amistad/ [|**PBS**] Another learning opportunity for high school students can be found at the PBS web site. Here students will read the transcript of a Newshour with Jim Lehrer segment on writing history, which talks about plagiarism. This well-crafted lesson sparks classroom discussion and helps students wrestle with the concept of plagiarism. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/teachers/lessonplans/general/ plagiarism.html ||