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[hidetoc]This guide provides sources of information on dealing with plagiarism in academic work. The University Library Library Instruction program offers assistance in incorporating information about plagiarism, correct resource citation, and other information literacy topics into course work at UW-Stout.
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-STOUT POLICY
- Student Academic Misconduct/Disciplinary Procedures, Wisconsin Administrative Code, Chapter 14
- UW-Stout Academic Dishonesty Defined
ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL POLICIES AND ASSISTANCE
- Center for Academic Integrity Includes sample university honor codes and a database of articles on plagiarism.
- JISC Plagiarism Advisory Service Provides advice and tools to institutions, faculty and students.
- Defining and Avoiding Plagiarism: The WPA Statement on Best Practices From the Council of Writing Program Administrators
Print Sources in the University Library
- Columbia Guide to Online Style REF PN171.F56 W35
- MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers REF LB2369 .G53
- Plagiarism Handbook: Strategies for Preventing, Detecting, and Dealing With Plagiarism PN167 .H37x
- Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association REF BF76.7 .P83
CONSTRUCTING ASSIGNMENTS TO DISCOURAGE PLAGIARISM
- Anti-Plagiarism Strategies for Research Papers Article by Robert Harris in online journal Virtual Salt
- Discouraging Plagiarism Indiana University Campus Writing Program, Faculty Services
- The New Plagiarism: Seven Antidotes to Prevent Highway Robbery in an Electronic Age Article by Jamie McKenzie in online journal From Now On, The Educational Technology Journal
- Search Google using the words term paper alternatives for many creative ideas.
SEARCHING FOR THE SOURCE
Use University Library resources to search phrases from the text of papers when plagiarism is suspected.
- Check the works cited and locate the full text in periodical articles in University Library Indexes and Databases.
- To find out which full text database includes a particular periodical title, check for the title on the Periodicals Holdings list.
- Check books cited in the paper by searching the Stout Library Catalog and locating the book in the library collection.
- Check for plagiarism from the web by using an "exact phrase" search in the Advanced Search feature of Google or other search engines. Be sure to request results from the full text of the document, not just the title or abstract.
- Search multiple search engines simultaneously using a metasearch engine such as Dogpile.
- Use theTelus Learning Connection Plagiarism Sleuth Tool to search the same exact phrase in several search engines sequentially.
ONLINE PLAGIARISM DETECTION SERVICES
- Copyscape.com Allows web authors to enter urls for their pages and the software checks to see if the content has been used by others.
- EVE2 (Essay Verification Engine) For purchase software that checks essays against the web
- MyDropBox Subscription service that checks text against an internal database as well as the web and produces "originality reports"
- Plagiarism-Finder A commercial program from MediaPhor that searches the web for matches to content in papers on the user's computer
- Plagiarism Resource Site Free plagiarism detection software created by a physics professor from the University of Virginia
- Turnitin.com Subscription software that institutions or individuals can use to check papers against a database of term papers.
AVOIDING PLAGIARISM
- Avoiding Plagiarism University of California-Davis Student Judicial Affairs
- How Not to Plagiarize University of Toronto guide
- Plagiarism An annotated webliography of links to case studies, detection tools, term paper sites
- Purdue University Writing Lab Good hints for keeping track of quotes and citing correctly
- Quoting and Paraphrasing Sources From the UW-Madison Writing Center. Provides good examples of legimate paraphrases vs plagiarized paraphrases.
- Using Sources Hamilton College Writing Center guidelines
A SAMPLING OF TERM PAPER MILLS
- CheatHouse
- Genie 4 Custom Term Papers
- OPPapers.com (Other Peoples' Papers)
- Term Paper Relief Promises "non-plagiarized" custom papers
- Yahoo Research and Term Papers Lists dozens of sites
WWW Search Engines
The search engines that are available on the WWW vary in depth and coverage. Explore the search options to find relevant WWW sites. For a list of available search engines and WWW directories, e.g. Google or Yahoo, use Searching the Web from the Library Home Page.
Citations
To cite online resources in appropriate bibliographic style see: Citing Resources
To organize citations and create bibliographies and papers in APA, MLA and other styles see: RefWorks and Other Citation Management Tools
Last Updated: 06/18/2008 and Last Revised: 05/21/2008
Contact Denise Madland for more information or help on this topic.