LibGuides: Copyright: Plagiarism

A Positive Solution to Plagiarism
The article presents the author's suggestions toward preventing plagiarism in academic settings.
College Students' Cheating Behaviors
The author explored the reasons given by college students for cheating during scholastic examinations.
Plagiarism 2.0: Information Ethichs in the Digital Age
This video examines the behaviors that constitute plagiarism, their consequences, and the best ways to avoid them.
A Response on Intellectual Plagiarism
The author explores the reasons given by college students for cheating during scholastic examinations

Academic Writing and Plagiarism by Diane Pecorari
Call Number: Electronic Book
Publication Date: 2008-07-24
This book examines plagiarism, the inappropriate relationship between a text and its sources, from a linguistic perspective. Diane Pecorari brings recent linguistic research to bear on plagiarism, including processes of first and second language writers; interplay between reading and writing; writer's identity and voice; and the expectations of the academic discourse community.
The Complete Guide to Referencing and Avoiding Plagarism by Colin Neville
Call Number: Electronic Book
Publication Date: 2007-07-01
This book gives clear guidelines on how to correctly cite from external sources, what constitutes plagiarism, and how it can be avoided.A unique feature of the book is the comparisons it makes between different referencing styles - such as Harvard, APA, MLA and Numerical referencing styles - which are shown side-by-side. This provides a useful guide, for students as they progress through higher education, and particularly for those on combined studies courses - who may be expected to use two, and sometimes three, different referencing styles.
Doing Honest Work in College by Charles Lipson
Call Number: 808.02 L68
Publication Date: 2004-10-15
In the first part of the book, Lipson outlines three core principles of academic honesty and explores how these principles inform all aspects of college work. He discusses plagiarism in detail, outlining an ingenious note-taking system and offering guidelines for quoting and paraphrasing. The second part of the book gives a full account of citation styles in the humanities, social sciences, and physical and biological sciences, as well as in pre-professional studies.
My Word! by Susan Debra Blum
Call Number: 808.02 B658
Publication Date: 2009-01-29
In a book that dismisses hand-wringing in favor of a rich account of how students actually think and act, Susan D. Blum discovers two cultures that exist, often uneasily, side by side in the classroom. Relying extensively on interviews conducted by students with students, My Word! presents the voices of today's young adults as they muse about their daily activities, their challenges, and the meanings of their college lives. Outcomes-based secondary education, the steeply rising cost of college tuition, and an economic climate in which higher education is valued for its effect on future earnings above all else: These factors each have a role to play in explaining why students might pursue good grades by any means necessary.
Promoting Research Integrity in a Global Environment by Tony Mayer
Call Number: Electronic Book
Publication Date: 2011-11-25
The World Conferences on Research Integrity provide a forum for an international group of researchers, research administrators from funding agencies and similar bodies, research organisations performing research, universities and policy makers to discuss and make recommendations on ways to improve, harmonise, publicise, and make operationally effective international policies for the responsible conduct of research. The second such conference, held in Singapore in July 2010, focused on challenges and responses. Where is integrity in research today most significantly challenged and what is being done to address these challenges? This volume brings together a selection of presentations and key guidelines and statements emerging from the Conference.

The following is Brescia University's policy on academic integrity, found on page 9 of section III:

An instructor who becomes aware of an act of deliberate academic dishonesty, including plagiarism, should report the student(s) involved to the Academic Dean and describe the disciplinary action proposed. (Note: “Plagiarism” is defined as the deliberate use of another’s ideas, work, or words as one’s own, without properly documenting and crediting the original source.) Purchasing or copying another’s work and using it as one’s own, cheating on tests, refusing to do one’s share of group work for which all will receive the same grade, and not doing one’s own homework are other examples of academic dishonesty, as is using a paper completed for one class as an assignment for another class without informing the instructor. Instructors post within their syllabi their individual policies regarding academic integrity and the consequences for violating that policy within their own courses (generally a 0% for the assignment). All instances of academic dishonesty are reported to the Academic Dean.

If the incident is particularly damaging to the University or if the proposed disciplinary action seems out of proportion to the gravity of the incident, the Academic Dean may interview the student(s) personally. After Section III III - 10 conferring with the faculty member, the Academic Dean will either support the proposed disciplinary action or recommend an alternative. Academic dishonesty is so serious that a repeated offense will result in the student being placed on Academic Probation; additional penalties may also be imposed. Continued violations of academic integrity may result in the Academic Dean’s decision to suspend or dismiss the student. [Curriculum and Standards Committee, 09-27-2001] Any student who believes that s/he has not had a fair hearing or that the severity of the penalty is unwarranted may appeal to the Academic Dean within ten (10) days for a hearing by an ad hoc board similar to that used for grade review appeals.

Anti-Plagiarism Strategies for Research Papers
The strategies discussed here can be used to combat what some believe is an increasing amount of plagiarism on research papers and other student writing. By employing these strategies, you can help encourage students to value the assignment and to do their own work.
Defining and Avoiding Plagiarism: The WPA Statement on Best Practices
The statement is intended to provide helpful suggestions and clarifications so that instructors, administrators, and students can work together more effectively in support of excellence in teaching and learning.
Deterring Plagiarism: Some Strategies
Knowing how to build personal ideas on past knowledge is a central goal of university study, but students often say they hear about it mainly through warnings and threats. Here are some practical methods to lessen the risk of plagiarism in your classes while using writing as an essential way for students to explore ideas and learn ways of thinking.
Understanding and Preventing Plagiarism
Students, particularly those in college, are expected to adhere to rigorous codes of conduct that stress academic integrity, including prohibitions against plagiarism. Steering clear of plagiarism, however, can be more difficult than it seems and the consequences can be severe. Fortunately, it’s a problem educators are devoting quite a bit of energy to, and there are new resources available to help students avoid the pitfalls of plagiarism. Read on to learn about practical preventative measures.

Avoiding Plagiarism (Purdue's Online Writing Lab)
A charge of plagiarism can have severe consequences, including expulsion from a university or loss of a job, not to mention a writer's loss of credibility and professional standing. This resource is designed to help you develop strategies for knowing how to avoid accidental plagiarism.
Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing
From the Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL), these pages help you become more comfortable with the uses of and distinctions among quotations, paraphrases, and summaries.
Student Tips for Avoiding Plagiarism
This guide is intended to give a quick overview of skills you can adopt to foster academic integrity in your own scholarship. (Academic Integrity Tutorials)
Turnitin: The Plagiarism Spectrum
The Plagiarism Spectrum identifies 10 types of plagiarism based on findings from a worldwide survey of nearly 900 secondary and higher education instructors. Each type of plagiarism has been given a digital moniker to reflect the significant role that the internet and social media play in student writing.
Understanding and Preventing Plagiarism
Students, particularly those in college, are expected to adhere to rigorous codes of conduct that stress academic integrity, including prohibitions against plagiarism. Steering clear of plagiarism, however, can be more difficult than it seems and the consequences can be severe. Fortunately, it’s a problem educators are devoting quite a bit of energy to, and there are new resources available to help students avoid the pitfalls of plagiarism. Read on to learn about practical preventative measures.
What is Plagiarism?
Rutgers University presents the deinition of plagiarism, examples, and a quiz.

Goblin Threat
From Snowden Library, Lycoming College, this is a fun way for students to learn about plagiarism as they click on the goblins and answer the questions they ask.
How to Recognize Plagiarism
A site from University of Indiana with links to cases, examples, practice with feedback and a tough 10 question test
Virtual Academic Integrity Lab (VAIL)
Northern Illinois University Academic Integrity Tutorials Quiz on Identifying Plagiarism
You Quote it, You Note It!
This is a tutorial from Vaughan Memorial Library, Acadia University on the difference between paraphrasing and quoting, and how to do both properly. It also covers when to cite, what to cite, and how to cite.

See the links above for information on what plagiarism is and how you can avoid it by learning the correct way to quote, paraphrase, and summarize information. Try some of the quizzes.