Plagiarism

Plagiarism

Library Media Teachers are the best resource to help teach students the difference between plagiarism and research. We rarely expect schoolchildren to create truly original writing, but we do ask for higher level thinking skills such as analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. These skills must come from the basis of knowledge and understanding through research

What is Plagiarism? Check out this interactive tutorial from Acadia University in Canada: http://library.acadiau.ca/tutorials/plagiarism/

Many links about plagiarism, plus excellent tips for teachers on how to stop it:
http://www.guidetoonlineschools.com/online-teaching/plagiarism

Plagiarism Stoppers - A great page of resources and ideas to help teachers stop plagiarism. http://www.ncusd203.org/central/html/where/plagiarism_stoppers.html

Most of the sites below are from a posting to LM-net (Library Media Teachers Listserv) on January 21, 2002.)

http://www.plagiarism.org Basic info about plagiarism.

http://www.turnitin.com Subscription service related to the above site.

http://www.wordchecksystems.com Software that detects frequency of words and phrases in a paper against a database of papers previously submitted by a professor.

http://www.articlechecker.com/ Paste text and it will check the web.

There is an academic journal devoted to plagiarism issues, Plagiary, at http://www.plagiary.org/

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The links below were listed by Anne Clyde in Teacher Librarian, October 2001, p. 32 and 58. This is a partial listing of the sites chosen.

"Ethics 101: Cheating, Plagiarism, Site Evaluation, Copyright, and Your Students." http://www.kalama.com/~zimba/plag&cheat.htm An all-encompassing site with a long list of resources.

"Plagiarism and Copyright." http://7-12educators.about.com/education/7-12/cs/plagiarism/index.htm Excellent links from the online magazine About.com.

"Internet Essay Exposer." http://essay.freehomepage.com Tries to make it easy to catch plagiarism.

Eve2.2 http://www.canexus.com/eve Try a 15 day trial of this site that purports to "track down internet sources of plagiarism."

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Check the Archives of LM_NET for many discussions of plagiarism, especially the "Reasons NOT to Plagiarize" which were posted as a HIT by Jacquie Henry on April 10, 2002.

A revised Bloom's Taxonomy is at http://www.teachers.ash.org.au/researchskills/dalton.htm . It includes questioning words to use with students.