Faculty Resources
Plagiarism

• Anti-Plagiarism Strategies for Research Papers -- Strategies for addressing and preventing plagiarism in the digital age.
• Are You Encouraging Plagiarism? -- six excellent tips to construct assignments/papers to discourage plagiarism. These work!
• Avoiding Plagiarism --suggestions of ways to work with students to help them avoid plagiarism, from the University of California Davis.
• Google Search Engine -- type in the first sentence of a paragraph from a suspected plagiarized paper.  Enclose the sentence in quotation marks ("sentence"), and click on search.  This search engine will look for similar wording on internet sites.
• Issues in Plagiarism for the New Millennium: An Assessment Odyssey -- includes a bibliography.
• MOSS (Measure of Software Similarity) -- free software for determining the similarity of C, C++, Java, Pascal, Ada, ML, Lisp, or Scheme programs.  Used to detect plagiarism in computer programming classes.
• New Plagiarism -- Seven Antidotes to prevent Highway Robbery in an Electronic Age
• Plagiarism -- a web site of news articles, plagiarism detection tools, copyright information, case studies, and tips for instructors put together by librarian Sharon Stoerger.
• Plagiarism.org -- This web site will help identify plagiarized papers for a per class fee.  Also includes full-text articles on plagiarism, FAQs, and survey results on plagiarism.
• Plagiarism and Antiplagiarism -- includes possible approaches to reducing plagiarism, links to related web sites, suggestions for using specific search engines to locate plagiarized papers.  From Rutgers University.
• Ultimate Plagiarism Resource: Detecting Plagiarism & Preventing It

Sites That Offer Free Essays, Term Papers, and Book Reports:

• Bignerds.com -- search for a paper by subject.  Has over 800 free papers.  Will also do custom papers for a fee.
• Cyber Essays -- provides free papers by subject.  Encourages students to submit their own papers so database will keep growing.
• Essay Depot -- can search by subject.  Has a disclaimer that these papers should only be used as "ideas" and should not be turned in.
• EssayInfo.com -- has links to pretty slick essays for sale sites.
• Free Essay Network -- has links to several free essay sites
• School Sucks -- great name, eh??

There are many other sites that offer term papers and essays for a fee.. 

• Academic Term Papers -- papers from outside the U.S.!
• Academon -- available for instant download! 
• Essay Mill -- individually written papers by jobbers/ghostwriters.
• Essay School -- Another slick site which doesn't even make a single excuse, just hand in work that isn't your own! One can search for topics here to see if they match up with that suspected one.
• EssayTown -- has won many awards

To name just a few...Professors beware!