Preventing & Detecting Plagiarism
Student Resources:
- APOLLO: A Pace Online Library Literacy Orientation Unit Six 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 From SUNY Albany.
- I'm writing my first paper. What do I need to know? - How Not to Plagiarize From Writing Support at the University of Toronto.
- Plagiarism --and how to avoid it! From Drew University.
- Writing Research Papers - Avoiding Plagiarism From OWL (Online Writing Lab) from Purdue University Writing Lab.
Faculty Resources:
- APOLLO: A Pace Online Library Literacy Orientation Unit Six 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
- Deterring Plagiarism: Some Strategies
- Plagiarism and Anti-Plagiarism
- Plagiarism and the Web
Faculty Tools (commercial detection sites):
- EVE, the Essay Verification Engine A commercial detection product. A trial of the software can be downloaded and used for 15 days.
- Glatt Plagiarism Services, Inc. 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) 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 A web-based commercial detection service, which provides for a one-month free trial. Now integrated with Blackboard. Contact CTLT for more information.
