Academic Honesty: A Select Resource List

Books

Harris, Robert A. The Plagiarism Handbook. Los Angeles: Pyrczak Publishing, 2001.

Lathrop, Ann and Kathleen Foss. Student Cheating and Plagiarism in the Internet Era.

Englewood, Colorado: Libraries Unlimited, Inc., 2000.

Thames Valley District School Board. On Your Own. Thames Valley District School Board,

2000.

Toronto School Board. Student Research Guide. Toronto: Toronto District School Board, 2002.

Journal and Periodical Articles

Atkins, Thomas and Gene Nelson. “Plagiarism and the Internet: Turning the Tables”, English

Journal, March 2001, pp. 101-104.

Gardiner, Steve. “Cybercheating: A New Twist on an Old Problem”, Phi Delta Kappan, October

2001, pp. 172-174

Howard, Rebecca Moore. “Don’t Police Plagiarism: Just TEACH!”, The Chronicle of Higher

Education, Volume 48, November 18, 2001, pp. 46-49.

Johnson, Doug. “Designing Research Projects Students (and Teachers) Love”, Multimedia

Schools, November/December 1999. http://www.infotoday.com/MMSchools/nov99/johnson.htm

In this article. Johnson, Director of Media and Technology for Mankato Public Schools in Minnesota, offers excellent suggestions for designing research assignments which do not invite plagiarism. He says that teachers must see themselves not as “information dispensers, but guides for information builders”, and includes a useful rubric for teachers to assess the quality of their research questions.

Koechlin, Carol and Sandy Zwaan. “Moving Beyond ‘All About’ Projects”, Teaching Librarian,

Vol. 6 No. 3, pp. 16-19.

A very useful article on designing plagiarism-proof assignments.

McKenzie, Jamie. “The New Plagiarism: Seven Antidotes to Prevent Highway Robbery in an

Electronic Age”, From Now On: The Educational Technology Journal, May, 1998.

http://www.fno.org/may98/cov98may.html

The former Director of Libraries, Media and Technology for the Bellingham, Washington Public Schools, McKenzie offers seven powerful antidotes to the “new strain of plagiarism before it becomes an academic plague”. His antidotes include the discouragement of trivial pursuits, an emphasis on essential questions and a focus on the multi-stage process of research rather than the product, so that students become more than consumers of information.

“Plagiarism”, The Ethics of Information Use, School Libraries in Canada, Vol. 20 No.4, 2001.

The entire issue of this magazine is very useful as it deals with steps in the research process, and documentation of sources.

Renard, Lisa. “ Cut and Paste 101: Plagiarism and the Net”, Educational Leadership, December

1999/January 2000, pp. 38-42.

Web Sites for Teachers

Anti-Plagiarism Strategies for Research Papers http://www.virtualsalt.com/antiplag.htm Author and educator, Robert Harris offers practical strategies for the awareness, prevention and detection of plagiarism. One notable suggestion is the requirement for a metalearning essay, in which students must reflect, in class and in writing, on their personal research experience--what strategies they used, what confounded them, etc. In addition to giving students an opportunity to think about their learning during the assignment, it also gives the teacher a writing sample for comparison if necessary.

Beating the Cheating: A Webquest. http://gladstone.vsb.bc.ca/library/cheating/bc.htm

A superb step-by- step interactive mini-course for teachers.

Cheating, Plagiarism (And Other Questionable Practices), The Internet And Other Electronic Resources http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/WomensStudies/plag.htm

This comprehensive site from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, provides a range of articles and sites about internet cheating and plagiarizing, academic misconduct, and academic integrity as well as commercial term paper sites and plagiarism detector sites.

Combating Cybercheating http://www.epcc.edu/vvlib/cheat.htm

A useful set of links to published articles from the Library at El Paso Community College.

Downers Grove North High School Library Plagiarism Pages. http://www.csd99.k12.il.us/north/library/plagiarism.htm

This is an excellent high school library site with all sorts of tips for teachers.

How Not to Plagiarize. http://www.utoronto.ca/writing/plagsep.html

University of Toronto’s Writing Centre has a good question and answer page for students on avoiding plagiarism.

Internet Paper Mills http://www.coastal.edu/library/mills2.htm.

Created by librarians to heighten the awareness of faculty at Coastal Carolina University, this site lists more than 250 sites that offer free and for sale essays Including sites such as School Sucks. http://www.schoolsucks.com and The Evil House of Cheat. http://cheathouse.com

Plagiarism: What It Is and How to Recognize and Avoid It.

http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/wts/plagiarism.html

A useful set of examples for students.

Plagiarism-The Writing Center-University of Delaware. http://www.english.udel.edu/wc/handouts/plagiarism.html

Explanations for students of different types of plagiarism.

Purdue University’s On-Line Writing Laboratory. http://owl.english.purdue.edu

This is an excellent site for all phases of the writing process. Especially useful is the section called “Avoiding Plagiarism” at http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/print/research/r_plagiar.html

Another part of the site has excellent downloadable PowerPoint slide shows on APA and MLA documentation methods.

Turnitin.com. http://www.turnitin.com/

A subscription service designed to detect plagiarism. Using a sophisticated search engine, Turnitin.com provides subscribers with an “originality report” highlighting any part of the essay either which has been taken from the Internet, or that appears in their bank of previously submitted student essays. Offers a one month free trial.