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.
• Plagiarism and the Web
• Plagiarism in Colleges in USA -- an essay written by attorney Ronald Standler providing examples of legal cases, tips for avoiding plagiarism, and links to helpful sites.
• Safe Assignment -- "SafeAssignment works with papers students turn in electronically and employs a proprietary technology to identify unoriginal content, including paraphrased or otherwise altered text. After a series of comprehensive plagiarism checks, SafeAssignment generates convenient and easy-to-read reports, where all unoriginal material is highlighted and linked to its online or database sources.  Submitted documents are compared with millions of papers and articles in the main databases, including ProQuest, the Gunther Project, and many others.  Details are shown so the instructor or writer can compare wording in the original document with the submitted paper. A dept. can go in together for this.

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.
• Term Papers Heaven -- has won many awards

To name just a few...Professors beware!