Academic
Honesty and Intellectual Ownership
This document was originally prepared in May 1996 by Inger Brody, Ann Ekes, and
Jeanette DiScala as part of the University of Puget Sound's Academic Standards
Committee, Subcommittee on Academic Honesty. Intended as a teaching guide, it
introduces students to the issues of intellectual ownership and accepted forms
of citation. Included are sample published pages, along with a range of ways in
which students might use such passages in their papers.
The
Cat-and-Mouse Game of Plagiarism Detection
by Jeffrey R. Young. Colleges provide professors with new online tools to give
them the upper hand. The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 6, 2001.
Cheating
101: Paper Mills and You, aimed at providing faculty with an overview
of the current state of Internet Paper Mills, how to locate Paper Mills, how to
detect plagiarized papers, how to track down suspicious papers, and how to combat
plagiarism by Margaret Fain, Assistant Head of Public Services, and Peggy Bates,
Reference Librarian, at Coastal Carolina University.
Writing
Assignments Closely Tied to the Course's Goals
Putting
Downloadable Term Papers to Legitimate Educational Use
Electronic
Plagiarism Seminar by Gretchen Pearson, Public Services Librarian, Noreen
Reale Falcone Library, Le Moyne College. Up-to-date, thorough website including
the following sections:
Preventing
Plagiarism
Detecting
Plagiarism
Guides for Educators
Guides
for Students
Searching tips
Free
papers
Papers
for sale
Plagiarism
detection sites
Fostering
Academic Integrity including
Strategies for Preventing Cheating on Term Papers, Take-Home Written Assignments
and Exams.
Plagiarized.com:The Instructor's Guide to Internet
Plagiarism Authored by
a student: 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. Check out Dead
Giveaways: What to watch for when you suspect an essay isn't from the
student's own head.
Plagiarism
and the Web,a very helpful site by Bruce Leland, Professor of
English, Western Illinois University.
Plagiarism
in Colleges in USA by
attorney Ronald B. Standler.Plagiarism by students is a serious
problem in colleges in the USA. This essay discusses plagiarism from a legal perspective.
Preventing
Academic Dishonesty from
Tools for Teaching, by Barbara Gross Davis, Assistant Vice Chancellor,
Student Life-Educational Development, University of California, Berkeley. Includes
specific strategies for Papers and Exams.
Student
Plagiarism in an Online World in ASEE Prism Online by Julie J.C.H.
Ryan, a graduate teaching assistant at George Washington University and Information
Security Consultant.
The plagiarism handbook:
strategies for preventing, detecting, and dealing with plagiarism
by Robert A. Harris; cartoons by Vic Lockman. Los Angeles, CA: Pyrczak Publishing,
2001. ECSU
has two copies that circulate
and one copy in Reference PN167.H37 2001 Tips
for Helping Your Students Learn to Write Better from Writing Support,
University of Toronto.
Using
Sources Effectively,
by Robert A. Harris, targets unintentional plagiarism and the ineffective use
of research source material.
examination copies are available to
faculty viaPyrczak
Publishing. Use Browse Titles: Writing:
Using Sources Effectively and
click on the Exam Copy tab. CCSU has a
copy in the Curriculum Lab.
The
Web's plagiarism police, an excellent article by by Andy Dehnart for Salon,
June 14, 1999. Issues a caveat regarding various anti-plagiarism tools; reviews
Plagiarism.org and EVE.
EVE,
the Essay Verification Engine EVE is a powerful tool designed to combat
the growing problem of internet plagiarism. EVE accepts essays in plain text format
and returns links to web pages from which a student may have plagiarized. EVE
has been developed to be powerful enough to find plagiarized material while not
overwhelming the professor with false links. Try EVE by giving it an essay in
plain text (.txt) format. Next, find some similar material on the web, copy a
couple of paragraphs into the essay, and give the new essay to EVE. In our testing,
EVE found approximately 80-90% of plagiarized material.
Cost:
EVE can be purchased online for only $19.99 per licence. This is a one time cost,
and entitles you to free upgrades to all future versions! Licence Information:
Each professor or teacher must purchase their own copy of EVE. A copy of EVE may
be used by one teacher for all of the essays submitted in the all of the classes
they teach. It may not be used to check essays for another teacher unless that
teacher purchases a licence as well.
Glatt
Plagiarism Teaching Program (GPTeach): A
Tutorial Program to provide computer assisted instruction on what constitutes
plagiarism and how to avoid it. Includes definitions of direct and indirect plagiarism,
when and how to provide attribution, and mastery test of concepts.
Glatt
Plagiarism Screening Program (GPSP) A
highly sophisticated Screening Program to detect plagiarism. Typically used in
academic institutions or in the legal profession for cases of copyright infringement.
Glatt
Plagiarism Self-Detection Program (GPSD) A Screening Program to help detect
inadvertent instances of plagiarism.
For
additional information, see endorsements
and a partial list of academic
institutions that have helped fight plagiarism with Glatt Plagiarism Services.
Moss (for a Measure Of Software Similarity) is an automatic system for
determining the similarity of C, C++, Java, Pascal, Ada, ML, Lisp, or Scheme programs.
To date, the main application of Moss has been in detecting plagiarism
in programming
classes. Since its development in 1994, Moss has been very effective in this role.
The algorithm behind moss is a significant improvement over other cheating detection
algorithms (at least, over those known to us).
Moss
is being provided in the hope that it will benefit the educational community.
Moss is fast, easy to use, and .
Access to Moss is restricted to instructors
and staff of programming courses. To obtain a Moss account, send a request to
moss-request@cs.berkeley.edu. Processing requests for accounts may take up to
a day; once you have an account queries are processed as soon as they are received.
Welcome to Plagiarism.org,
the online resource for educators concerned with the growing problem of Internet
plagiarism. This site is designed to provide the latest information on online
plagiarism and explain how our user portal, Turnitin.com, is now being
used by educators all over the world to fight plagiarism and help bring academic
integrity back into our schools.
Is
it possible to prevent plagiarism by determining if a term paper has been copied
from the Internet or from another class? It is now.
Proven
Results. Our proprietary plagiarism detection algorithms* have successfully been
used in multiple classes at U.C. Berkeley and abroad.
Powerful Methods.
Our computational processes for 'finger-printing' papers and determining degrees
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Extensive Database.
Our extensive and growing database of term papers will deter your students from
plagiarizing other work.
Easy
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Increases
Quality. Instructors
report that the quality of their students' work increases when they know that
manuscripts will be checked for originality.
Increases Student
Morale. Students themselves report that unchecked cheating and plagiarism by others
undermines their own efforts and educational enthusiasm.
The
Plagiarism Resource Center at The University of Virginia The
goal of this web site is to help reduce the impact of plagiarism on education
and educational institutions. At present, it distributes
software to detect plagiarism and is gathering information on peoples’ experiences
with plagiarism. The site’s author is Lou Bloomfield, Professor of Physics,
University of Virginia, Box 400714, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4714, bloomfield@virginia.edu.