Plagiarism: Act of copyright infringement by using another person's work without giving credit - tantamount to stealing.

Basics

• ACI Net Guide to Term Papers - warnings regarding papers from the Internet
• Plagiarism: What It is and How to Recognize and Avoid It (Indiana University) - useful section on paraphrasing including acceptable/ unacceptable examples
• Sources (Dartmouth College) - comprehensive list of terms relating to plagiarism/copyright issues including explanations and examples

Web Sites -comprehensive

• Electronic Plagiarism Seminar (Le Moyne College) - includes bibliographies (general & scientific misconduct), preventing and detecting, guides for educators & students, free papers / papers for sale and more...excellent site!
• Plagiarism (S. Stoerger) - articles, tools, case studies, ethics and more
• Plagiarism.org (Turnitin folks) - statistics, education, technology

Citation Formats

• Citation Styles Online - includes information on MLA, APA, Chicago, CBE citation styles
• RIT Library's APA & MLA citation style - includes online how to guides, streamed PowerPoint tutorials, & other citation links

Tutorials/Self-testing Exercises

• Paraphrasing (Purdue University Writing Lab) - examples
• Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing (Purdue University Writing Lab)

Writing Resources

• Guide for Writing Research Papers (Capital Community College) - based on styles recommended by the American Psychological Assoc. (APA) & MLA- includes useful links
• Guide to Grammar and Style (Rutgers)
• Hints on Technical Report Writing (Dublin City University)
• Online Reading and Writing Lab (Gallaudet) - comprehensive
• Technical Report Writing (NASA)
• The Nuts and Bolts of College Writing (Washington College)
• The Writing Workshop (New York University)
• Writing a Research Paper (Purdue University)
• Writing and Presenting Your Thesis or Dissertation (various academic authors)
• Writing, Citing and Evaluating Guides (University of British Columbia)
• Writing Theses and Dissertations (Claremont College)

Detection

Papers

• Glatt Plagiarism Services, Inc. - interactive program using student's own writing style. Useful for detecting plagiarism when source is another student, a purchased paper, or a book. Offers computer software teaching students to avoid plagiarism. Provides opportunity to self-test for plagiarism.
• Plagiarism.org - RIT Library is currently offering this service to RIT faculty - contact Marianne Buehler
• "The Web's Plagiarism Police" by Andy Denhart - a cautionary tale

Software

• MOSS (measurement of software similarity) - system for detecting software plagiarism - free (Alex Aiken, UC Berkeley)

Effective Library Assignments

Papers

• Anti-Plagiarism Strategies for Research Papers - offers strategies for detecting and discouraging plagiarism
• Creating Effective Library Assignments: A Guide for Faculty (Montana State University - Bozeman)
• Guidelines for Effective Library Assignments (University of Wisconsin - Madison)
• Guidelines for Library Assignments California Clearing House for Library Instruction

Maintained by: Marianne Buehler