Plagiarism and Online Paper Mills

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.

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.

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