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• Antiplagiarism Strategies

  http://www.virtualsalt.com/antiplag.htm
  Ideas to use in preventing and detecting plagiarism.

• Avoiding Plagiarism

  http://www.riosalado.edu/library/tutorials/Pages/avoidingPlagiarism.aspx
  Examples and practice exercises from Rio Salado College.

• BBC News - Web checks for student cheating

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/3765927.stm
  Detection software will search 800 million websites to stop students plagiarising from the internet.

• BBC NEWS Magazine - Cut and paste

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4484718.stm
  Bloggers are naming names, creating an award for news organizations who plagiarize weblogs without attribution.

• Center for Academic Integrity

  http://www.academicintegrity.org/
  Provides a forum to identify, affirm, and promote the values of academic integrity among students. It is affiliated with the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University.

• CNN.com - Boston University takes on term paper firms

  http://www.cnn.com/US/9802/08/term.paper/
  Boston University is suing eight companies that sell term papers over the Internet. The school wants the federal courts to enforce a Massachusetts law banning the sale of term papers.

• Copyright Issues on the Web

  http://iteslj.org/Articles/Harris-Copyright.html
  Briefly discusses the relationship between copyright and plagiarism.

• CSMonitor.com - Term Papers at the Click of a Mouse

  http://www.csmonitor.com/1997/1027/102797.feat.learning.1.html
  1997 article discussing the easily availability of online term papers.

• Dalhousie University: Plagiarism and Intellectual Honesty

  http://plagiarism.dal.ca/
  Dalhousie's policies, news about plagiarism in university settings, and resources for faculty and students to help understand, avoid and detect plagiarism.

• Educause: Term Paper Mills, Anti-Plagiarism Tools, and Academic Integrity

  http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/erm0153.pdf
  Article taken from the October 2001 issue of Educause Review.

• Email 'cheating' students face mass expulsion (The Register)

  http://www.theregister.co.uk/1999/08/15/email_cheating_students_face_mass/
  A group of students accused of sharing "programming solutions" by email now face fines or expulsion.

• History News Network: What Is Plagiarism?

  http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/514
  Definitions of plagiarism from the American Historical Association, Modern Language Association, and the American Psychological Association.

• Homeschool Kids and Plagiarism

  http://www.pahomeschoolers.com/newsletter/issue78b.htm
  Essay from Susan Richman asking, "Has plagiarism ever come up in conversation at home with your kids?"

• In Praise of Plagiarism

  http://www.stu.ca/~hunt/plagiary.htm
  Russ Hunt writes, "The challenge of easier and more convenient plagiarism is to be welcomed. This rising tide threatens to change things for... the better."

• In Praise of Plagiarism

  http://www.stthomasu.ca/~hunt/plagiary.htm
  Suggests that plagiarism and cheating aren't always the same. Argues that the emphasis on "originality" for everything written or otherwise created is a hard target to hit.

• Internet Essay Exposer

  http://www.mattclare.ca/essay/
  Use this resource to confirm if an essay was created by the student who submitted it, or copied in part or in full from the web.

• John Templeton Foundation: College and Character

  http://www.collegeandcharacter.org/
  An initiative to encourage colleges and universities to do as much as they can to reinforce the positive values instilled by parents, such as honesty, compassion, self-discipline, and respect.

• NPR : All Things Considered : Preaching and Plagiarism

  http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1139827
  Realaudio-format radio report about the recent suspension of a clergyman for plagiarism (segment is 4 minutes and 15 seconds in duration).

• NPR : All Things Considered: Internet & College Cheating

  http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1143717
  A Realaudio-format radio report about the temptation to cheat via the internet on college coursework and how professors are fighting this trend. (segment is 9 minutes 30 seconds in duration).

• NPR : All Things Considered: Plagiarism

  http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1136141
  Realaudio-format radio report. NPR talks with Thomas Mallon, author of Stolen Words: Forays into the Origins and Ravages of Plagiarism, about the discovery of plagiarism by well-known authors such as Steven Ambrose, and research techniques which should help avoid the problem (Segment is 4 minutes and 30 seconds in duration).

• NYTimes.com- Colleges Use Sites to Expose Cheaters

  http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/01/circuits/articles/20chea.html
  Account of how a University of California at Berkeley professor caught students cheating.

• Plagiarism

  http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/pamphlets.shtml
  What It is and How to Recognize and Avoid It. From Indiana University Writing Resources page.

• Plagiarism 101

  http://library.albany.edu/usered/plagiarism/
  Subtitled "How to Write Term Papers Without Being Sucked into the Black Hole."

• Plagiarism and Copyright Infringement

  http://www.cciw.com/content/plagiarism.html
  Article briefly discusses plagiarism in commercial and educational settings on the web.

• Plagiarism and the Internet

  http://homepages.wmich.edu/~rea/CW/plag.html
  Bibliography of print resources on plagiarism and the web.

• Plagiarism and the Web

  http://www.wiu.edu/users/mfbhl/wiu/plagiarism.htm
  Presents a concise list of methods for combating plagiarism in the classroom. From Bruce Leland of Western Illinois University.

• Plagiarism Today (PT)

  http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/
  A site targeted at webmasters and copyright holders regarding the issue of plagiarism online.

• Plagiarism: Definitions, Examples and Penalties

  http://www.chem.uky.edu/courses/common/plagiarism.html
  Documents used by the University of Kentucky Department of Chemistry.

• PlagiarismAdvice.org

  http://www.plagiarismadvice.org/
  Provides resources, training, advice and guidance to the education sector, to help address concerns about plagiarism.

• Purdue University - Avoiding Plagiarism

  https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/589/01/
  A handout designed to help writers develop strategies for knowing how to avoid accidental plagiarism.

• School of Education, Indiana University: How to Recognize Plagiarism

  http://www.indiana.edu/~istd/
  A tutorial with many examples, practice questions with feedback, and a test.

• SparkNotes: The Plagiarism Plague

  http://www.sparknotes.com/help/plagiarism.html
  Study guide company explains its stance on plagiarism, explains what it is and how to entirely avoid it.

• The New Plagiarism

  http://www.fno.org/may98/cov98may.html
  Highlights differences between 'electronic' plagiarism and traditional plagiarism.

• The Plagiarism Resource Center

  http://plagiarism.phys.virginia.edu/
  Free software that allows teachers to compare papers and determine if one is plagiarized, plus links to other resources.

• University of Regina: Stopping Plagiarism

  http://www.uregina.ca/arts/for-faculty-staff/stopping-plagiarism/index.html
  Preventing, detecting and tracking online plagiarism.

• “Uni Cheats Racket”: A Case Study in Plagiarism Investigation

  http://crpit.com/confpapers/CRPITV30Zobel.pdf
  Article by Justin Zobel investigates an Australian case in 2001 in which around thirty students appear to have obtained material from a private tutor. Some details were reported in the press during 2003 when a student and the tutor were sentenced in court.

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