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Plagiarism

Anti-Plagiarism Strategies for Researach Papers provides strategies to promote awareness, prevention, and detection of plagiarism in research papers.

Cut-and-Paste Plagiarism: Preventing, Detecting and Tracking Online Plagiarism
A brief introduction to plagiarism, followed by guidelines to prevent, detect, and track down its occurrence. Links to a number of online sites that offer research papers and essays are also provided.

A Faculty Guide To Cyber Plagiarism provides instructors with information about why students plagiarize, terminology, preventinon and detection strategies and much more.

Thinking and Talking About Plagiarism directs you to web links adressing assignment design, how to talk about plagiarism in the classroom, how to talk to students you suspect might have plagiarized, and more. The author also show how he's revised his course outline statement on "plagiarism after thinking about the central need to communicate more clearly to--and discuss more often with--my students on what plagiarism is and why it's important to think about."

Understanding and Reducing Academic Misconduct at the University of Guelph "provides an overview of the literature, a summary of approaches taken at other universities, and provides initial suggestions for reducing academic misconduct at the University of Guelph" (p.3).

Plagiarism and the Web offers a number of suggestions to help avoid plagiarism as well as a number of links to other helpful sites on this topic.

For more information on this topic, search the TRELLIS system (UG library).
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