Resources for Faculty

Center for Academic Integrity
http://www.academicintegrity.org/
Contains examples of school honor codes.

Guide to Plagiarism and Cyberplagiarism
http://www.library.ualberta.ca/guides/plagiarism/
An excellent site from the University of Alberta Libraries. Contains tips on clarifying the concepts behind doing research, preparing course syllabi that clearly describe the instructor's policy on academic integrity, designing plagiarism-proof assignments, detecting plagiarism, and more.

Plagiarism.org
http://www.plagiarism.org/
This is the organization that offers Turnitin.com, the plagiarism detection software. The Resources area of the site discusses ways to educate students about plagiarism and tips on creating plagiarism resistant assignments. Offers free trial to Turnitin.com. More on some potentially controversial aspects of Turnitin.com from the Chronicle of Higher Education can be found at http://chronicle.com/fre/v48/i36/36a03701.htm

Plagiarism in Colleges in USA
http://www.rbs2.com/plag.htm
A discussion of plagiarism from the legal perspective, by Ronald B. Standler.

Anti-Plagiarism Strategies for Research Papers
http://www.virtualsalt.com/antiplag.htm
Written by Robert Harris, author of "The Plagiarism Handbook."

"Hole-ize"
http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/gn/5thwordp.html
This free site allows teaching faculty to paste a paragraph from a student's paper into the site, which then returns the paragraph with every fifth word removed. Students then take a fill in the blanks quiz, the idea being that students will be able to recall the missing words if they actually wrote the paper.

Detecting Plagiarized Papers
http://www.coastal.edu/library/plagiarz.htm
This page from Coastal Carolina University Library lists clues to look for that may reveal a student's paper has come from a paper mill.

Detecting Plagiarism
http://www.coastal.edu/library/plagiarz.htm
This page from the University of Toronto Writing Center suggests ways to create plagiarism-proof assignments.

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