Student resources
Instructor resources
Student resources
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_mla.html
The Purdue University Online Writing Lab is an excellent resource
for tips on avoiding plagiarism. The most useful resource you have
is an up-to-date MLA or APA format guide. The above URL is a link
to MLA style and guidelines for cross-referencing in-text citations
with works-cited references. Similar resources may be available
in the text you’re using for your course; however, an online
version of this information is useful because you can search for
formatting guidelines for specific types of resources, like Web
sites. Did you know that you need two dates when referencing a Web
site in a works-cited list?
http://www.indiana.edu/%7Eistd/
Indiana University, Bloomington’s “How to Recognize
Plagiarism” tutorial site offers students practice and examples
for recognizing and avoiding word-for-word plagiarism and paraphrasing
plagiarism. These examples are useful. After reviewing this material
review your own writing for possible inadvertent instances of plagiarism.
http://www.waldenu.edu/acad-rsrcs/writing-center/plagiarism/students.html
Walden University offers a very close look at the difference between
paraphrasing and plagiarism. As part of this site you’ll find
a very useful exercise in paraphrasing the Three Little Pigs
while learning compare-and-contrast skills.
http://www.lib.iastate.edu/commons/resources/copyright.html
Iowa State University’s “Copyright and Plagiarism”
page shares many links to different definitions of copyright and
plagiarism. They’re very much related. Be sure to check out
the “Digital Future Coalition” link and the link about
Napster and MP3-distributed file sharing.
http://writing.colostate.edu/references/teaching/plagiarism/students.cfm
Colorado State University lists a number of valuable sites, too,
that help students understand and avoid plagiarism. You can find
links to Internet Paper Mills here (your teachers are well-trained
and know a lot about such sites). One of those links is from UC
Davis (http://sja.ucdavis.edu/avoid.htm). UC Davis has one of the
most concise and thorough guidelines for avoiding plagiarism online.
http://www.rbs2.com/plag.htm
Don’t think plagiarism is that big of a deal? Ronald Standler’s
“Plagiarism in Colleges in USA” discusses plagiarism
from the perspective of copyright law, trademark law, fraud, etc.
It shares studies of cases involving plagiarism in American colleges.
Instructor resources
Defining and Avoiding Plagiarism: The
WPA Statement on Best Practices
The Council of Writing Program Administrators has a very clear stand
on the definition of plagiarism: “In an instructional setting,
plagiarism occurs when a writer deliberately uses someone else’s
language, ideas, or other original (not common-knowledge) material
without acknowledging its source.” The WPA Council points
out that it’s very important to realize there’s a difference
between plagiarism and the misuse of sources. The WPA Council’s
statement is the most useful online resource about plagiarism. For
your convenience, the PDF document is available for download here.
Reprinted by permission of the Council of Writing Program Administrators.
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/print/research/r_plagiar.html
Purdue’s OWL lists some of the contradictions of American
academic writing that tend to confuse and muddle the issue; for
instance, we ask students to conduct outside research while coming
up with something original. We ask students to improve their English
by reading and mimicking, yet we want them to develop their own
voice. Purdue’s OWL also has some very user-friendly tables
that point out when writers need to give credit and when they don’t,
how to decide if something is “common knowledge,” and
more. This page also offers some useful exercises for practices
that can be easily printed out and used in classrooms without computers.
http://dmoz.org/Reference/Education/Educators/Plagiarism/
The Open Directory Project is a catalog of different subjects in
many arenas. This site lists many Web sites that relate anti-plagiarism
strategies and information about the rise of “technology-enhanced
academic dishonesty.” Three of the links send you to NPR reports
that share surveys about cheating among college students that can
be used in the classroom.
http://www.wiu.edu/users/mfbhl/wiu/plagiarism.htm
One strategy to off set the rise of “technology-enhanced academic
dishonesty” is to point out to students how much you know
about how easy it is to steal material from the Internet. This site
lists a number of strategies related to this approach.
http://www.virtualsalt.com/antiplag.htm
Robert Harris’ site offers useful assignment strategies that
help encourage students to find writing more intrinsically engaging.
He reminds teachers, too, that there is often a fine line between
intentional and unintentional plagiarism. Harris’ work can
also be found at http://www.antiplagiarism.com/
http://wrt-howard.syr.edu/articles.html
Rebecca Moore Howard’s bibliography of important articles
about plagiarism is a very useful resource. Articles are from The
Chronicle of Higher Education, College English, Kairos,
Computers and Composition, Pre/Text, The Journal
of Teaching Writing, Writing Program Administration,
and other resources. |