E-mail this pagePlagiarism and Online Paper Mills
Prevention
- Faculty Workshop: Preventing and Detecting Plagiarism - Information, suggestions, and a collection of resource links for faculty. Includes tutorials for student use.
- Academic Honesty Quiz - A useful quiz for exploring issues of plagiarism with students. From the University of Manitoba.
- Plagiarism and the Web - Some suggestions for addressing the issue of plagiarism with your students and some tips on how to design writing assignments that help deter students from taking papers off the web.
- Cut-and-Paste Plagiarism : Preventing, Detecting and Tracking Online Plagiarism - A brief resource outlining what plagiarism is, how to prevent, deter, and track down plagiarism and a brief bibliography.
- Student Plagiarism in an Online World - An article in Prism Online by Julie J.C.H. Ryan. Discusses the changing face of plagiarism in an online world and how we need to adapt to keep up.
- Plagiarism: What It is and How to Recognize and Avoid It - From Indiana University's Writing Tutorial Services this guide would be good to direct your students to. It provides examples of acceptable and unacceptable attempts of paraphrasing and quoting sources.
Detection
- Plagiarism.org - Plagiarism.org and its user portal, Turnitin.com provide a service to educators to check student's work.
- A list of links to Internet Paper Mills - Compiled by the Kimbel Library at Coastal Carolina University.
- Glatt Plagiarism Services Inc. - offers three programs: a tutorial, an educators detectin service, and a self-detaction program.
- Moss (for a Measure Of Software Similarity) - free service from U.C. Berkley that compares software code, registration is required.
Contact Information:
Cerise Oberman, LIS Dean and Interim Instruction Services Unit Coordinator
Office: Feinberg 211
Phone: (518) 564-5180
E-mail: cerise.oberman@plattsburgh.edu