Plagiarism Facts for Faculty and Students:
Important Information on How to Avoid and Detect Plagiarism

Student Resources | Faculty Resources | Faculty Tools

Student Resources:

• APOLLO: A Pace Online Library Literacy Orientation
  Unit Seven of Pace's online research tutorial focuses on citing information using appropriate guidelines such as MLA and APA, and recognizing and avoiding plagiarism.
• Plagiarism 101: How to Write Term Papers Without Being Sucked into the Black Hole
  http://library.albany.edu/usered/plagiarism/index.html 
• I'm writing my first paper. What do I need to know? - How Not to Plagiarize http://www.utoronto.ca/writing/plagsep.html
• Plagiarism --and how to avoid it!
  http://www.depts.drew.edu/composition/Avoiding_Plagiarism.htm
• Writing Research Papers - Avoiding Plagiarism http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_plagiar.html                              

Faculty Resources:

• APOLLO: A Pace Online Library Literacy Orientation
  Unit Seven of Pace's online research tutorial focuses on citing information using appropriate guidelines such as MLA and APA, and recognizing and avoiding plagiarism.
• Anti-Plagiarism Strategies for Research Papers
  http://www.virtualsalt.com/antiplag.htm
• Deterring Plagiarism: Some Strategies
  http://www.utoronto.ca/writing/plagiarism.html
• Plagiarism and Anti-Plagiarism
  http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/%7Eehrlich/plagiarism598.html
• Plagiarism and the Web http://www.wiu.edu/users/mfbhl/wiu/plagiarism.htm                                                    

Faculty Tools (commercial detection sites):

• EVE, the Essay Verification Engine http://www.canexus.com/eve/index3.shtml 
  A commercial detection product. A trial of the software can be downloaded and used for 15 days. 
• Glatt Plagiarism Services, Inc. http://www.plagiarism.com 
  Glatt sells three different plagiarism software resources, the first is a tutorial students use to learn about plagiarism, the second is detection software which looks for plagiarism in a file, and the third, a self-detection program that helps a writer avoid inadvertent plagiarism. The detection tool uses the student's own writing style to detect possibly plagiarism. 
• Moss (for a measure of software similarity) http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/%7Eaiken/moss.html
  From the web site: "Moss (for a Measure Of Software Similarity) is an automatic system for determining the similarity of C, C++, Java, Pascal, Ada, ML, Lisp, or Scheme programs. To date, the main application of Moss has been in detecting plagiarism in programming classes."
• Turnitin.com http://turnitin.com (From http://Plagiarism.org)
  A web-based commercial detection service, which provides for a one-month free trial. 
  Dyson Faculty: Contact Beth Klingner, bklingner@pace.edu, to use Turnitin.com in your classes. Lubin Faculty: Contact Tom Miliano, tmiliano@pace.edu, to use Turnitin.com in your classes.