HOW TEACHERS CAN DETECT & REDUCE PLAGIARISM
Trust your gut instinct. Some papers just don't "sound like" a particular student's writing. There's a feeling that comes from grading students' writing over time, and that feeling raises a red flag in a teacher's mind. Be especially concerned when you read vocabulary not commonly used by that particular student.
Require that students turn in citations with their papers. Are they all from sources not available in the GVSU library or on the Internet? Are the resources outdated?
When you find a suspect paper, look for a unique phrase of six to 10 words and type that inside quotation marks within the search line of a search engine like
http://www.altavista.com
http://www.google.com
http://www.dogpile.com
Often your results list will go straight to the paper you are looking for, but sometimes you may have to search around to find the source paper.
Be proactive. Warn students about cybercheating and explain to them that you know how to find papers and, in fact, have done so. Furthermore, the consequences of plagiarism can be found on page 74 of the GVSU Catalog . Be open about the existence of term-paper mills. Download a few sample papers and discuss their strengths and weaknesses. Let students know that you know what is out there - and that most of it is not very good.
Web Resources
Printable handout on Plagiarism
Grand Valley State University:
Preventing and Detecting Plagiarism
Copyright
Harris, Robert A. The Plagiarism Handbook, Strategies for Preventing, Detecting,. Pyrczak Publishing, 2001. http://www.antiplagiarism.com/
Library of Congress, Copyright Office Study on Distance Education, http://www.loc.gov/copyright/disted/
Webbased Learning Resources Library, Click on the option: Legal and Copyright Issues effecting Distance Education
http://www.outreach.utk.edu/weblearning/
Crews, Kenneth. "Lawful Uses of Protected Works." Indiana Partnership for Statewide Education. http://www.ihets.org/consortium/ipse/fdhandbook/copyrt.html
Distance Education Resource Center. http://waltoncollege.uark.edu/disted/decnew2/copyright_info.htm
Copyright Management Center. http://www.iupui.edu/%7Ecopyinfo/home.html
Standler, Ronald. Plagiarism in Colleges in USA. http://www.rbs2.com/plag.htm
Templeton, Brad. Ten Big Myths about Copyright Explained. http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html
UC Davis: Fair Use, Copyright, and Intellectual Property. http://trc.ucdavis.edu/TP/copyright.html
DETECTING PLAGIARISM
Creech, Karen and Janice Johnson. "Cybercheating." Info Tech: The Advisory List. Ed. Educational Resources Evaluation Services of the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction. January 1999. http://www.teachers-connect.net/cc/98-99/cybercheat.htm
Essay Verification Engine (EVE2): http://www.canexus.com/eve/index.shtml
The Plagiarism Resource Center at University of Virginia, http://plagiarism.phys.virginia.edu/
Plagiarism.org, and free trial for Turnitin software. http://www.plagiarism.org/
GUIDES FOR STUDENTS
Avoiding Plagiarism: Mastering the Art of Scholarship. University of California, Davis. http://sja.ucdavis.edu/avoid.htm
Georgetown University. What is Plagiarism? http://www.georgetown.edu/honor/plagiarism.html
Williams, Sharon. Avoiding Plagiarism. http://www.hamilton.edu/academic/resource/wc/avoidingplagiarism.html
Noodletools (Small subscription fee for creating citations in APA or MLA format). http://www.noodletools.com/
Citation Machine (Updated in 2000, for creating citations in APA or MLA format) :
http://www.landmark-project.com/citation_machine/cm.php
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