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ARC: Teaching: Plagiarism

ARContributions by Temi Amimbola, Linda D. Peters and Peter Sinclair

Articles and Web Pages:

• Clough, Paul (2000), "Plagiarism in Natural and Programming Languages: An Overview of Current Tools and Technologies" - Fairly technical paper in PDF form.
• Harris, Robert (2004),  "Anti-Plagiarism Strategies for Research Papers" - Awareness, prevention and detection strategies.
• Hinchliffe, Lisa (1998), "Cut and Paste Plagiarism: Preventing, Detecting and Tracking Online Plagiarism" - Includes sites that offer papers for sale, and a bibliography.
• Sharka, Jane (2003), "Plagiarism Stoppers: A Teacher's Guide" - Mostly a collection of links to relevant sites on the subject.
• Standler, Ronald B. (2000), "Plagiarism in Colleges in USA" - Legalistic if not legal analysis of what is plagiarism and what is not. 

General Advice:

• Insist on receiving work in progress
• Conduct a follow up oral exam
• Look for an identifying number or specific data point and ask to see the source
• Key some sentences into Google

Academic Sites:

• Center for Academic Integrity - Academic organization.
• Guide to Plagiarism and Cyber-Plagiarism - by the University of Alberta Libraries
• Instructor Toolkit - by Florida State University
• Avoiding Plagiarism - The OWL at Purdue
• Plagiarism Resource Site - at the University of Virginia

Commercial Sservices (the marginal advantage over straight Google is unclear):

• http://www.turnitin.com - TurnItIn - very well known
• http://www.mydropbox.com - Major competitor to the above
• http://www.m4-software.de/en-index.htm - Plagiarism Finder
• EVE - Software based plagiarism detection for teachers
• http://www.plagiarism.com/ - Gatt Plagiarism Services offers three programs.

Related ARC page: Legal and Ethical Topics