Cool Plagiarism Web sites

Sites for Faculty

Kimbel Library—Cheating 101: Paper Mills and You http://www.coastal.edu/library/presentations/papermil.html

Outstanding site detailed and kept up to date. This site includes the most comprehensive list of paper mills I've found along with concrete suggestions for combating plagiarism. Highly recommended. N.B. because the Web constantly changes, no list of paper mills is complete.

Electronic Plagiarism Seminar
http://www.lemoyne.edu/library/plagiarism/index.htm

A general purpose, comprehensive Web plagiarism site. The site was updated in October, 2003. It includes information for faculty as an excellent list of anti-plagiarism guides for students.

Guide to Plagiarism and Cyber-Plagiarism
http://www.library.ualberta.ca/guides/plagiarism/

A well organized site with good references.

Plagiarized dot com
www.plagiarized.com

Compiled by Gregg Senechal, a community college professor. This site is beautifully designed, concise, full of practical information and magnificent sarcasm. Senechal's thoughts on plagiarism detection software are useful as are his links to news stories about journalists and scholars who have committed plagiarism.

Virtual Salt
www.virtualsalt.com/antiplag.htm

Virtual Salt is an interesting Web site of miscellaneous information about the Web and research compiled by Robert Harris, an English professor. The link immediately above leads to a brief essay containing useful tips on preventing and detecting plagiarism.

Busting the New Breed of Plagiarist
http://www.awpwriter.org/magazine/writers/mbugeja01.htm

A wonderfully succinct and useful article by Michael Bugeja. He is a former journalism professor and creator of a character development program at Ohio University. This brief article outlines methods for catching cheaters.

Guide to Plagiarism and Cyber-Plagiarism
http://www.library.ualberta.ca/guides/plagiarism/index.cfm

Well organized, up to date and comprehensive, this site offers excellent suggestions.

Current Issues and Resources—Plagiarism
www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/links_plagiarism.html

A lengthy well-organized, annotated and recent list of web links dealing with all aspects of plagiarism. A good starting point for further research.

 

Sites for Students

Montgomery College Libraries Plagiarism Tutorial
www.montgomerycollege.edu/library

Look under the Library Instruction block, find the link for "Tutorials and Quizzes" and click on it. Once on the tutorials page scroll down until you find the link to the tutorial "Plagiarism: What it is and How to Avoid It. This brief tutorial defines plagiarism, outlines the consequences, explains proper citation, and concludes with a quiz you may assign to students.

You Quote It, You Note It
http://library.acadiau.ca/tutorials/plagiarism/

This is a very clever interactive tutorial written by librarians from the Vaughan Memorial Library at Acadia University in Nova Scotia. It clearly explains documentation, paraphrasing, common student misconceptions about citation, citation styles etc. Students should especially appreciate the effective use of sound.

Avoiding Plagiarism from the Purdue University OWL (Online Writing Lab)
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_plagiar.html

You'll find several documents for students on this excellent Web site This handout on plagiarism is introductory, succinct, easy to understand and sympathetic to students.

Purdue University OWL
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_quotprsum.html

This web page from the Purdue OWL nicely summarizes quoting, paraphrasing and summarizing. It includes a useful exercise.

Dartmouth College : Sources: Their Use and Acknowledgement
www.dartmouth.edu/~sources/

Good description of a variety of citation forms, a working definition of plagiarism and a useful and workable definition of common knowledge.