Resources on Plagiarism

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USU Resources

Syllabus Resources for Faculty
http://www.usu.edu/aia/academic/syllabusres.cfm

The USU Vice Provost of Academic and International Affairs provides quick links to put in your syllabus, including a statement on plagiarism.

Information Ethics Module, Computer and Information Literacy Test -- CILS
http://cil.usu.edu/what.htm

Computer and Information Literacy modules at USU cover the ethical use of information.

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Detection Service Comparisons

From Download your Workload to the Evil House of Cheat: Cybercheating, Plagiarism, and Intellectual Property Theft
http://www.wou.edu/provost/library/about/staff/kincanon/plagiarism/index.htm

Provides a comparison chart of several detection services.

UMUC Center for Intellectual Property. Current Issues and Resources—Plagiarism http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/links_plagiarism.html

Lists articles and web sites comparing different detection services.

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Web Resources

The Writing Resource Page
http://elearning.homestead.com/writing.html

Created by Leslie Bowman, provides tutorials and resources on writing papers and on plagiarism.

Plagiarism Resource Site
http://plagiarism.phys.virginia.edu

Lou Bloomfield, Professor of Physics at the University of Virginia provides forums for discussing plagiarism and free detection software.

UMUC Center for Intellectual Property/Current Issues and Resources/Plagiarism.
http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/links_plagiarism.html

Links to detection services and evaluations of these services.

Center for Academic Integrity
http://www.academicintegrity.org

The center's web site provides information about a number of issues related to academic integrity, including plagiarism. The center is affiliated with the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University.

Web Resources for Cyberethics
http://www.cteresource.org/publications/featured/cyberethics/

CTE Resource Center—Virginia Dept of Education, provides useful links to web-based resources on ethics on the web.

CyberPlagiarism: Some Approaches to a Growing Problem
http://library.smsu.edu/resources/cheating.shtml

Lists web-based articles, paper mills, plagiarism detection devices, commercial paper vendors, links to extexts, etc. Provided by Southwest Missouri State University Libraries.

Plagiarism.org
http://plagiarism.org

This site “provides the latest information on online plagiarism and explain how Turnitin and iThenticate are now being used to fight plagiarism and restore integrity to written work.

Plagiarized.com
http://www.plagiarized.com/

Billed as the “Definitive Guide to Internet Plagiarism,” this site is dedicated to helping educators and parents understand and prevent plagiarism.

Web Resources: What is Plagiarism? 
http://www.georgetown.edu/honor/plagiarism.html 

Georgetown University.  Engagingly covers different types of plagiarism.

Increase student awareness of plagiarism:
http://www.academicintegrity.org/pdf/Letter_To_My_Students.pdf

"Integrity: Academic and Political A Letter to My Students" Bill Taylor, Professor of Political Science, Oakton Community College.

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